for healthier dairy livestock
Perfectly sized pellets are an effective and palatable way of getting calcium, magnesium and trace elements into your cows, goats and sheep to improve animal health
Discover why Jon and Hayley Dampney chose Vitalise for their 1080 cows on a system 3-4 farm in the heart of Mid-Canterbury
Key features
Accurate
Pelletised mineral supplements eliminate wastage from dusting and are more accurate than water-powered dosing systems. In-shed feeding makes each Vitalise dose precise and palatable
Concentrated
Using our unique manufacturing process, ultra-fine lime and essential nutrients are pressed into pellets without grain or fillers, so your herd only gets the good stuff
Customisable
Alongside high elemental calcium, we can add magnesium, DCP, monensin, salt and trace elements to custom pellets to meet your dairy needs. The all-natural products support the health and well-being of your herd
Convenient
We designed Vitalise to relieve the workload in already busy operations. The pellets can be delivered through any in-shed feed system, via a mineral dispenser or through your local feed company
How Vitalise works
A calcium based mineral supplement for healthier animals
Calcium is vital for animal health and development. As a significant mineral in the body, calcium helps circulate blood, move muscles, and release hormones. It influences production, reproduction and feed conversion efficiency.
More than calcium goes into Vitalise; our most popular product Vitalise CalMag combines magnesium and ultra-fine lime to help support animal health and reduce the occurrence of milk fever. You can choose a standard dairy trace element premix for your dairy cattle, goats and sheep, or talk to us about customising supplements depending on your herd’s needs.
These trace elements are an example of our standard dairy premix:
• Copper 220 mg/dose
• Zinc 400 mg/dose
• Cobalt 8 mg/dose
• Iodine 12 mg/dose
• Selenium 8 mg/dose
Half rates of Cu are also available for PKE users
Trace elements are typically included at a 100gm feed rate
With the growing trend of feeding fodder beet to cows on the season’s shoulders, adding phosphorus (DCP) to the Vitalise pellet has been popular and is now one of our standard products. DCP is added at 20gm/cow/day, making the overall feed rate 120gm/cow/day.
Ionophores (monensin), toxin binders and seaweed can be added to the pellet. Salt can be blended in with the pellets post-production if requested. The inclusion of monensin with the Vitalise pellets is dose-dependent and needs to be fed at the labelled feed rate. Alternative feeding rates can be created on advice. All our pellets are manufactured in New Zealand, and can be certified organic.
Product | CALCIUM
(per 100g*)
| MAGNESIUM
(per 100g*)
| OTHER
(per 100g*)
| TYPICAL DOSE RATE
(per cow per day)
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
Vitalise Calcium | 36g | N/A | N/A | 100g |
Vitalise CalMag | 23g | 8g | N/A | 100g |
Vitalise CalMag + DCP | 23g | 8g | Phosphorus 3.6g | 120g |
Vitalise CalMag + Rumenox | 23g | 7.7g | Monensin 300mg | 100g |
Vitalise CalMag + Trace Elements | 23g | 7.7g | Trace Elements (Cu, Zn, Co, I, Se) | 100g |
Vitalise CalMag + Trace Elements + Rumenox | 23g | 7.7g | Trace Elements (Cu, Zn, Co, I, Se), Monensin 300mg | 100g |
Vitalise Custom Blend | Custom | Custom | Custom | As per mineral needs |
* Excluding Product Vitalise CalMag + DCP. The calcium, magnesium and phosphorus values are per 120g.
We require a minimum order of 10 tonnes for custom blends.
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How to use
Vitalise
Easy to use and to feed
Using Vitalise improves animal health, reduces labour, time, and repairs and maintenance on gear.
We developed Vitalise as an alternative to dusting lime flour and MagOxide. Vitalise improves efficiency with in-shed feeding and flow through augers. A mineral supplement has many advantages over dusting, providing a far more accurate and reliable dose with minimal wastage.
Vitalise works in-shed feeding systems. A core-less/centre-less auger is the preferred delivery mechanism so that the integrity of the pellet is maintained. Because the pellets are approximately 2.5mm in diameter, conventional augers can crush them. A lead feed ensures the dairy cows consume the pellets.
Feeding equipment options include:
- A Mineral Additive Dispenser – a small unit (about 50-60kg) with a variable speed motor that feeds the pellets up to a conduit in the main feed line
- 1Tonne silos with a separate feed line into the dairy parlour and a variable speed core-less auger
- When using existing silos, we recommend that a "blower truck" is used to load the pellets, so they don't get crushed