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VITAL-iD: Health Concept for Veal Calves

Proven precision support for safer, healthier and better-performing veal calves

Healthy, resilient veal calves don’t just happen – they are built through precision nutrition, consistent management and the highest standards of care.
VITAL-iD for Veal Calves is Denkavit’s integrated precision health concept, designed to support digestive capacity, resilience and performance throughout the full veal calf cycle.

Based on years of DenkaFarm research and extensive on-farm validation, VITAL-iD combines science-backed components that help calves cope with early-life challenges, transition smoothly between feeding phases and achieve consistent, efficient growth.

Whether your goal is improved safety, enhanced health or optimised performance, VITAL-iD provides targeted support exactly where veal calves need it most.

Why choose feeds with VITAL-iD for Veal Calves?

Each Denkaveal calf milk replacer enriched with VITAL-iD includes a precisely balanced combination of functional additives, vitamins, minerals, fat blends and bioactive components — all selected for their proven effect on veal calf safety, health and performance.

With VITAL-iD inside, veal calf diets offer:

  • Improved safety: Additional protection that helps calves become more resilient to diseases and infections.
  • Enhanced health: Supports digestive function, gut integrity and overall well-being.
  • Optimised performance: Promotes higher growth, improved feed efficiency and consistent development.
  • Tailored to your system: VITAL-iD components are selected and balanced to match the specific needs of your veal calves — and the challenges on your farm.

Choosing VITAL-iD means choosing more than nutrition, it is a proven health concept that supports steady, reliable growth and long-term performance.

What makes VITAL-iD unique for Veal Calves?

VITAL-iD is not a single additive. It is a precision health concept integrated across Denkaveal milk replacers and complementary products such as Nucleo, Avance and fat blends.

Its strength lies in combining proven components that:

  • Support safe and efficient digestion of dairy and vegetable proteins,
  • Stabilise gut function and reduce the impact of stressors,
  • Improve feed conversion and overall efficiency,
  • Promote resilience and respiratory health,
  • Support uniform, predictable growth across groups.

By improving safety, health and performance simultaneously, VITAL-iD helps calves thrive through every stage of the veal production cycle.

Overcome challenges in every phase

Start Phase

Challenges

  • Immature digestive system
  • Weaker immune system
  • Start-up stressors

Objective
Optimal digestive system development and a strong, resilient start.

VITAL-iD Focus
Supports protein digestion and immune system activity during the calf’s most vulnerable phase.

Nucleo

Objective
Precisely balancing each milk replacer according to the needs of your calves.

VITAL-iD Focus
Supports optimal growth and early performance through highly digestible, well-balanced nutrition.

Fattening Phase

Challenges

  • Transition from dairy protein digestion to vegetable protein digestion
  • Highly variable intake patterns
  • Increased metabolic load

Objective
Stable digestion and continuous growth without performance loss.

VITAL-iD Focus
Reduces the risk of growth dips, supports digestive transitions and enhances feed intake and performance.
Products can be tailored with VITAL-iD components focused on safety, health or performance, depending on your farm’s needs.

Shaped by research. Proven in practice.

VITAL-iD for Veal Calves is developed using:

  • Continuous research at our DenkaFarm Innovation Centres, where new components and formulations are tested extensively.
  • On-farm trials, ensuring solutions match real-world challenges such as feed transitions, respiratory pressure and variable growth conditions.
  • Practical farmer insights, helping refine the concept for daily veal calf rearing and finishing.

This combination of science and practice ensures that VITAL-iD performs not only under controlled test conditions, but also on farms across Europe.

Part of a complete Denkavit approach

VITAL-iD works alongside the full Denkaveal range and supporting tools:

  • Technical and nutritional support
  • Precision feeding guidance
  • Solutions tailored to system type and expected performance level

Together, these elements help you make data-based decisions that strengthen calf resilience, improve uniformity and optimise growth and efficiency in every phase.

Unique components within VITAL-iD

VITAL-iD consists of multiple proven components — each contributing to safety, health or performance.

Standard

  • Vitamins, minerals & trace elements
  • Fat blend
  • Organic acids & stabilising components
  • Palatability enhancers

Health

  • EXAMO
  • Progres®
  • Natural oregano oil

Safety

  • ProGut Extra
  • Organic acid systems
  • Preserving components

Performance

  • Fermentation extracts
  • Enzymes

A strong start for efficient, high-performing veal calves

By choosing Denkaveal milk replacers enriched with VITAL-iD, you invest in proven precision formulas that support calves throughout the entire veal production cycle — improving safety, supporting health and driving performance.

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