The first weeks and months in the life of a calf are crucial for rearing a highly productive dairy cow.
Sprayfo from Trouw Nutrition offers a variety of premium calf-rearing solutions. Based on our extensive LifeStart scientific research, Sprayfo products and services guarantee calves the best possible start and a lifetime of high milk production.
For modern dairy farmers, becoming more sustainable means the need to produce more milk with fewer animals. This challenge can be met by utilising each dairy cow’s full potential and maximising their average lifetime daily production. Attention to the quality of nutrition in early life, which strongly influences gene expression, is an important factor that affects maximum growth and future production potential.
The study: A total of 86 individually housed female calves, divided into two groups, were included in a longitudinal study at Trouw Nutrition’s Kempenshof facility. The LifeStart group was fed 8 litres per day of calf milk replacer; the control group was fed 4 litres per day. Both groups were fed at a concentration of 150 g/l.
Results: The LifeStart group had a 150 g higher daily weight gain until weaning than the control group. The difference this made for calves in the LifeStart group include: improved fertility, earlier first calving, an increase of 400 kg of fat corrected and reduced culling rates.
Sprayfo has a complete range as calf milk replacers; all made on a basis of in-house produced milk-fat and whey-fat concentrates. These ingredients are produced mainly from by-products of milk-processing for human consumption. Skimmed milk is a by-product from cream production, were whey comes from the cheese production. These liquid by-products we receive daily, fresh and are pasteurized, homogenised and spray-dried shortly after arrival. This guarantees a constant availability of ingredients for calf milk replacer production and helps to create a shelf life time of 12 months for our Sprayfo products.
Most Sprayfo products are based on skimmed milk, because of the high quality of the dairy proteins and the great taste of the milk-fat concentrates. For more traditional farmers, or regions in development with a lower milk price, we also provide whey-based milk replacers.
Our customer in Indonesia, Ultrajaya Peternakan Bandung Selatan (UPBS Dairy Farm), is satisfied with the growth performance of their calves after using SPRAYFO calf milk replacer (CMR). Their achievements include impressive Average Daily Gain (ADG) and overall improvement in cattle performance. Watch their success story firsthand in this testimonial video and discover how our product can enhance your dairy farm.
