Application
Crystalyx Organyx Garlic is suitable for feeding in organic systems and is classed by the Soil Association as an ‘approved livestock feed’. Containing a high concentration of garlic to protect beef, sheep and dairy livestock from biting insects. The natural high sulphur compounds in garlic act as an insect repellent which ward off fly’s and other biting insects.
Organic livestock production is intended to “contribute to the equilibrium of agricultural production systems”. However, animal welfare must not be jeopardised in organic systems and the EU Council Regulations on organic recognise this by stating “in order to provide the basic nutritional requirements of livestock, certain minerals and trace elements may need to be used under well-defined conditions” such as when organic livestock producers can show evidence of mineral and trace element deficiencies in home-grown forages.
Crystalyx Organyx Garlic is ideally provided to organically reared livestock at times when flies and biting insects are extremely prevalent. If livestock are stressed and or irritated then they are less likely to graze, therefore becoming less productive. If livestock’s skin is made less attractive to biting insects, they are less likely to bother livestock. The natural garlic contained in Crystalyx Organyx Garlic is consumed by livestock with every lick, and over the days that follow the garlic passes through the animal and is secreted out from pours in the skin, this produces an invisible barrier around livestock which flies and other biting insects find repellent.
