CopRice Premium Calf Pellets are a top quality, highly palatable starter that helps to ensure early intake, rapid rumen development and fast, efficient growth. Fortified with vitamins, minerals and trace elements, CopRice Premium Calf Pellets are an ideal first dry feed for newborns right up to weaning or to approximately three months of age. CopRice Premium Calf Pellets contain a superior rumen buffer, which reduces the risk of digestive upsets such as acidosis, and lasolocid sodium, used in the prevention of coccidiosis and in turn helps achieve efficient rumen development, helping to improve growth rate and feed conversion.

Feeding Guidelines

• Feed CopRice Premium Calf Pellets without restriction.
• Calves should be housed in a dry environment and away from adult animals. Wet conditions and low temperatures can be detrimental for calves.
• Adding a coccidiostat to the milk is strongly recommended. This ensures younger calves are fully protected against coccidiosis while the intake of pellets is low.
• Calves should be offered good quality cereal straw from day two onwards as a source of roughage. CopRice Premium Calf pellets will provide all the protein and other nutrients required.
• Weaning the calf off milk should be achieved when the consumption of pellets reaches more than 1 kg/day. The best feed intake and weight gain will be achieved by offering pellets on an ad-lib basis from day two to weaning. Once calves are weaned and introduced to pasture, CopRice Heifer Rearing pellets should be fed.

While on milk, a calf does not have a fully functional rumen. Pellets and grass, together with some roughage, ensure optimal rumen development. Calves should be given access to pasture while still on pellets and milk to reduce the risk of weaning setbacks.