Crystalyx Dry Cow

What is Crystalyx Dry Cow?

Crystalyx Dry Cow is a dehydrated molasses block containing a range of nutrients designed to build nutrient reserves in cows during the dry period, before the stressful calving time.

Crystalyx Dry Cow works by replenishing the animal’s trace element and vitamin reserves prior to calving, so promoting a strengthened immune response to help withstand challenges post calving. By aiding rumen performance and digestion efficiency, Crystalyx Dry Cow helps ensure a good appetite post calving, which in turn promotes better lactation, and enables the animal to replenish its body reserves in preparation for mating.

In particular, Crystalyx Dry Cow helps to maintain optimum blood magnesium levels, so reducing the risk of milk fever.

Using Crystalyx Dry Cow

Using Crystalyx Dry Cow is easy – simply place the tubs at convenient locations in your paddocks and your stock will help themselves. We recommend that you place tubs in areas where you want stock to graze, and avoid placing them near water troughs.

Crystalyx Dry Cow should be given to stock when they are not lactating.

  • Give it to cows before calving. This is when magnesium requirements are high but feed levels of this nutrient are at their lowest
  • Make it available to dry stock when dry matter intakes or pasture or silage are low

Typical intakes (per head of stock):

  • Cattle (dairy or beef): 200 g/day
  • Goats: 40-60 g/day

 

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