Feeding systems

Two ways to feed. One system built around the calf.

Bottle and bucket or automatic feeder — the milk changes, the calf's needs don't. Calf-Tel housing follows the same phase logic either way: the right space, the right group size, at the right age.

Engineered for biology

Housing that lasts a lifetime

Expertise, not just hardware

Our approach

A calf doesn't stay the same. Its housing shouldn't either.

A newborn needs shelter and close monitoring. Two weeks later she needs a companion. Three months later she needs room to run and feed space where she isn't pushed away from the trough. Most housing has to cover all of it at once.

Calf-Tel is built the other way round: every phase gets the setup it actually needs, and the components carry over into the next one.

Phase-based

Housing sized for the calf in front of you, not the calf she'll be in four months.

Modular

Pens, hutches, fences and troughs share the same hardware. Reconfigure instead of replace.

Convertible

Single becomes paired, paired becomes group, without buying the system twice.

Pick your path

Two programs, both complete from day one to finishing

Farmer bottle-feeding a calf inside a Calf-Tel pen

Manual feeding

The 2.5 Method

Four phases, one rhythm — 2.5 days in maternity, then three blocks of 2.5 months
Groups that grow with the calf — from individual care to a companion, then four, then eight
Full milk control — every litre, every feeding, in your hands
A clear moving plan — you always know which calf goes where, and when

Calves at pails in a row of Calf-Tel indoor pens

Automatic feeding

The Automated Program

Three phases around the feeder — 2.5 days maternity, four weeks pre-weaning, then grow-out to finishing
Stable groups of eight — one group, no reshuffling, straight through to the end
Paired or single pre-weaning — configure Phase 2 to your market's welfare rules
Housing does the rest — airflow, hygiene, feed space & transitions

Side by side

Which program fits your operation?

Manual feeding Automatic feeding

Fit

Best suited to

hands-on control

Volume & consistency

Calves per year

Any size, most common up to ~250

From ~120, standard above 250

Calves on milk at one time

1–2 per pen

25–30 per station

Upfront investment

Lower, scalable in small steps

Higher, concentrated in the feeder

What it demands

Milk records

Kept by hand

Logged per calf

Scales by

Adding pens and fences

Adding calves per feeder station

Requires

Labour availability and routine

Hygiene discipline and feeder maintenance

Cost & labour

Upfront investment

Lower, in small steps

Higher, in the feeder

Daily labour

Every feeding, by hand

Shifted to monitoring

Still weighing it up? Your Calf-Tel dealer has walked both programs on farms like yours.

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Two ways to feed. One system built around the calf.