Smart Solutions for Sick Calves: Boosting Recovery with Nutritech Essentials As calf rearers all we want are healthy, happy calves that are growing well and thriving. However not every season goes smoothly. Whether it’s scours, dehydration, infectious disease or stress—early intervention is key. Nutritech offers several tools to support sick calves and help get them […]
Building Better Calves: Nutritech’s 2025 Calf Range Delivers Performance and Profitability Raising strong, healthy calves is the cornerstone of a productive and profitable Dairy or Beef operation. Nutritech’s newly updated Calf Range is designed to help farmers rear robust calves with optimal health, growth, and lifetime performance – whether for dairy or beef systems. At […]
Ketosis, reproductive challenges and poor peak milk yield… Is ‘leaky gut’ to blame? The answer is yes, leaky gut can play a significant role in all three. But how are they linked and what does it mean for you on farm? To answer this question, we first need to take a step back and understand […]
Nutritech, in combination with Lallemand Animal Nutrition, has launched EazyBed® Pro – a specific bacterial bedding conditioner to help maintain dry, hygienic bedding. To rear healthy calves for optimum lifetime performance, we need to provide proper nutrition and a healthy environment for the calves supported by good overall management. To achieve the objective of rearing […]
Nutritech is going from great to even better with a new and improved DanCalf® Gold milk additive this season. With the spring calving season shortly upon us, it’s a reminder of the stress of rearing calves especially when we get sick, scouring calves. While using whole milk to feed calves is convenient, it can be […]
New ways to supplement zinc for facial eczema. Getting enough zinc into youngstock and dairy cattle to help prevent facial eczema is an ongoing challenge. No method is perfect, and blood testing for zinc is critical to ensure serum zinc levels are sufficient for facial eczema prevention. Water, feed and bolusing have been the main […]
New Zealand farm businesses can significantly reduce silage spoilage and retain more nutrients in their forage thanks to improvements in silage preservation technologies. At a time when feed costs are rising, it is now more important than ever to reduce the impact of silage losses to retain valuable, locally grown feed. What are silage losses? […]
Biotin (Vitamin H or B7) is an essential water-soluble vitamin. It is naturally present in some feeds and can be synthesised by rumen microbes. Usually, ruminal biotin synthesis supplies sufficient biotin for biological functions, however, diets containing high quantities of grain may reduce the natural synthesis of Biotin by the rumen. Biotin for hoof hardness. […]
