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StayDry™ Hy-Cal

StayDry Hy-Cal is a waterproof lick powder nutritional supplement for cattle and sheep. It contains a quality range and balance of minerals and trace elements to supplement ruminants where there is an increased risk of calcium deficiency. StayDry Hy-Cal is specifically designed to assist with the building of a robust skeletal structure and calcium reservoir.

For breeder animals, the aim is to supplement throughout the non-critical production phases such as early to mid-pregnancy, to fill the calcium reservoirs in the bones. Calcium supplementation ceases in the last 3 weeks of gestation, which stimulates parathyroid hormone secretion and skeletal calcium mobilisation before lambing. This makes calcium homeostatic mechanisms more responsive at the time of lambing/calving, allowing breeders to maintain blood calcium concentrations during lactation.

For growing animals, StayDry Hy-Cal is designed to supplement the imbalance of calcium in cereals, and dry pastures. It aims to improve growth rates and helps build a robust skeletal framework, which is essential for maximising lifetime performance and health.

Product is not hazardous and therefore does not require an SDS.

Reduces risk of hypocalcemia
Helps improve growth rates
Helps build a robust skeletal framework
Reduces risk of ricketts in lambs

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Supplementing breeding animals with StayDry Cal fills the calcium reservoirs in the bones ready for lactation, which reduces risk of hypocalcemia.
Calcium deficiency is likely to affect growing stock on deficient pastures because they have a high calcium demand in building their skeleton framework. The high potassium found in cereal crops (and other lush pastures) can inhibit calcium and magnesium uptake, making deficiencies in these minerals even more likely when grazing cereal crops. When supplemented to growing animals on calcium deficient pastures StayDry Hy-Cal:

helps improve growth rates and build a robust skeletal framework
Reduces risk of ricketts in lambs

It is well known that in winter there is an absence of Vitamin D. This is further exasperated by crops containing factors such as an excess of beta-Carotene and unbalanced mineral ratios and can lead to the development of rickets. Vitamin D is now also known to play a role in immunity and energy production.
Hy-D (25-hydroxycholecalciferol) is a unique ingredient in StayDry Hy-Cal. Hy-D is more bio available from the diet than Vitamin D3. As a result, animals are able to more efficiently absorb the Hy-D and can then produce more of the active Vitamin D in the body. Improved Vitamin D status means greater bioavailability of the critical minerals, calcium and phosphorus.

Hy-D 25-OH-D3 is the circulating available form of Vitamin D3
25-OH-D3 is absorbed in a similar way to but more rapidly than Vitamin D3
By passing the liver, Hy-D ensure optimal plasma levels of 25-OH-D3 and a more efficient production of 1, 25 (OH)2D3 active form of Vitamin D3

The benefit of being more efficiently absorbed than Vitamin D3 means Hy-D can boost the levels of the active Vitamin D metabolites in the plasma of the animals. Higher concentrations a Vitamin D metabolite has been shown in a series of studies at the University of New England to increase the absorption and retention of both calcium and phosphorus in heifers (Graph 1).

Graph 1: The effect of Hy-D on heifer plasma calcium concentration (Tomkins et al 2017)

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