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🐮 Your Calves Are Valuable Stock — Feed Them Like It

Irish calves have never been more valuable. Whether they’re staying on the farm or heading into the beef system, their future performance is decided in the first few weeks of life.

Milk alone isn’t enough.

Early introduction of a high-quality calf nut is what drives rumen development, growth, and long-term efficiency. That’s where Crecora Mills Calf Max comes in.

Why feeding Calf Max matters:

✔️ Encourages early rumen development
✔️ Supports stronger, healthier calves
✔️ Helps calves transition off milk sooner and smoother
✔️ Drives better liveweight gain
✔️ Sets calves up for stronger lifetime performance

The biggest mistake we see is underfeeding or delaying meal because calves “look fine.”
By the time problems show, performance is already lost — and it’s rarely recovered fully later.

A good calf nut isn’t a cost.
It’s an investment in future output, whether that’s:

higher beef value
stronger replacement heifers
or healthier calves with fewer setbacks

Calf Max is formulated for:

Palatability (calves actually eat it)
Digestibility
Consistency — bag after bag

📞 Talk to Crecora Mills today about feeding Calf Max to your calves.

Crecora Mills – We only mix with the best.

The first 30–60 days after calving are the most important days of the cow’s entire lactation.
Get nutrition right here, and everything that follows is easier. Get it wrong, and you’re chasing problems for months.

When a cow calves, her energy demand jumps overnight. Milk output rises faster than intake, leaving her in negative energy balance. Grass and silage alone — no matter how good — often can’t meet that demand.

That’s where dairy nuts earn their keep.

Why feeding nuts after calving matters:

✔️ Supports milk yield early, when response to feed is strongest
✔️ Helps protect body condition, fertility, and cow health
✔️ Drives milk solids, not just litres
✔️ Reduces risk of issues like ketosis and poor recovery
✔️ Sets the cow up for a more consistent lactation

The biggest mistake we see is cutting nuts too hard, too early, especially when milk price is under pressure.
Saving €0.50–€1.00 per cow per day can easily cost 2–4 litres of milk, plus fertility headaches later on.

The truth is simple:
👉 Fresh cows are not the place to cut corners.
👉 The right nut, fed at the right level, pays for itself — even at lower milk prices.

At Crecora Mills, our dairy nuts are formulated to deliver energy density, digestibility, and consistency when cows need it most.

📞 Talk to us about the right feeding level for freshly calved cows.

Crecora Mills – We only mix with the best.