Calf nutrition

Bell-Booth Limited designed and manufactures Queen of Calves™ and X-Factor. Together these two probiotics form part of a calf diet known as 'The Queen of Calves' Program. 'Queen of Calves' is a probiotic/nutritional made from marine and land plant extracts, with beneficial bacterium,  and vitamins. It is designed to be added to milk and offered to calves from Day 19 to weaning to help them grow stronger and healthier and go on to be top producers.  Research in 2006 and 2007 by Massey University’s Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health shows The 'Queen of Calves' Programme is superior to an identical conventional calf diet of milk and concentrate without the addition of X-Factor and 'Queen of Calves' as calves raised on a 'Queen of Calves' Programme can achieve target weaning weight 8 days quicker, with daily growth rate increased by 10% and with significant enhanced skeletal development over calves of same progeny and birthweight.

Water medication

Bell-Booth Limited pioneered the use of Dosatron™ in-line proportional injection to water-medicate dairy cattle in New Zealand. The 'Dosatron System' has revolutionized the New Zealand dairy industry by doing away with manual drenching. With over 40% of New Zealand dairy farmers relying on our unique system to provide their dairy cows with daily trace element & mineral supplementation, bloat control and ‘Nutrimol Classic’, these farmers have reduced labour costs, and completely removed the requirement for manual drenching. Bell-Booth Limited have a range of individual trace elements under the AHX Brand, plus specialist combination trace element premixes under the IntenSE brand, especially for use in 'Dosatron'.

Automated calf feeding systems

We are the exclusive New Zealand distributors for Holm & Laue Automated Calf Feeding systems. A four-station feeder Holm & Laue system can feed 150 calves the correct volume of milk and Queen of Calves, at the perfect temperature, throughout the day and night. And it cleans itself, twice in 24 hours.

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