Calf Feed
Southern Milling
Southern Milling calf feeds focus on providing calves with a strong nutritional foundation in order to deliver positive longer-term performance.
By targeting the three most critical drivers of calf success: early nutrition, rumen development, and immune resilience, our feeds help your calves grow efficiently and stay healthier.
Why Quality Calf Nutrition Matters
Quality calf nutrition is an opportunity to build strong health, performance, and productivity from the early stages. The nutrition a calf receives in its early stages has a direct impact on its future milk yield, longevity and resistance to disease.
Super Calf Rearer
Super Calf Rearer is a top-quality 17% protein rearing nut designed to maximise calf growth and development during the critical rearing phase.
Key benefits include:
- 17% protein rearing nut for optimal growth
- High energy levels to maximise daily liveweight gain
- HiPro soya premium protein source
- High-energy formulation ensures calves achieve key target weights
Super Calf Rearer also contains RumeThrive to boost intakes and reduce digestive upsets, and is fortified with vitamins and minerals to promote bone and muscle development. This feed has high levels of digestible fibre to support efficient rumen development.
Sweet Start Calf Pencils
Sweet Start Calf Pencils are a pelleted 20% protein starter feed for calves. This is an ideal feed for young calves transitioning from milk to solid feed. The pellet format of the feed promotes intake while preventing selective feeding and spoilage.
Key benefits include:
- A high inclusion of native cereals
- Optimal starch levels to stimulate early rumen development
- Soya oil for added energy and improved coat condition
Sweet Start Calf Pencils also contains EarlyBite to maximise intake and enhance palatability, and is fully fortified with essential minerals and vitamins. Yeast is included to promote gut health in calves.
Southern Milling MilkiStart Milk Replacer
MilkiStart is our own-brand milk replacer, formulated and manufactured to the highest standards. Fortified with a carefully selected blend of nutritional ingredients, MilkiStart is designed to enhance nutrient uptake, resulting in healthier calves and improved growth performance.
Key features include:
- High-quality dairy protein sources
- Homogenised for improved digestion
- Fortified with amino acids to support growth and immunity
- Acidified to improve gut health and maintain milk freshness
- Easy to mix
- Suitable for bucket or automatic feeders
MilkiStart contains RumeThrive for digestive and immune support and can be fed once daily (after 28 days) or twice daily.
About RumeThrive
The RumeThrive Health Package in MilkiStart and MilkiStart Pulmo Cx, delivers comprehensive digestive, immune, and respiratory support for young calves.
RumeThrive is a proven combination of functional additives designed to improve calf performance, health, and resilience.
RumeThrive Includes:
- Fibosel (Yeast Cell Wall)
- Stimulates the calf’s immune response
- Supports gut integrity
- Butyrate
- Stimulates intestinal villi growth
- Improves nutrient absorption
- Encourages higher feed intakes
- Elevated Vitamin E
- Powerful antioxidant
- Supports immune function and calf vitality
- Pulmo Cx Support
About PulmoCx
Pulmo Cx is included in MilkiStart for respiratory and digestive protection for young calves. Pulmo helps combat respiratory challenges commonly experienced by young cattle.
Pulmo contains eucalyptus oil, known for easing breathing and clearing airways, and supports the natural clearing mechanism of the lungs and respiratory tract.
EMX/Cx is also included to help protect against protozoan infections such as coccidia and cryptosporidium. EMX/Cx contains essential oils and plant extracts which impair protozoa cell membranes and help to maintain gut health and nutrient absorption.
Talk to Our Calf Nutrition Experts
At Southern Milling, customer satisfaction is central to our business. Our Dairy Technical Sales team has extensive experience in calf and dairy nutrition and undertakes regular training to stay at the forefront of industry best practice.
This ensures our customers receive the most up-to-date, accurate advice, enabling informed decisions around calf nutrition and herd management.
For more details or advice on the most suitable calf feed for your system, please contact us at
info@southernmilling.ie