Participation in Forum on April 9, 2025
@Ana Gavrau Natural betaine generally has the property of expanding the limits of comfortable temperature, both in the direction of increasing temperature and in the direction of decreasing temperature (this is important for countries with a cold climate). In addition, betaine is a good hepatoprotector. Therefore, my clients get good results, especially on laying hens.
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@Dr Charles Ibe - I fully agree, because the first physiological response in the body required when osmotic disturbances occure, specifically under heat stress conditions, is the osmolytic response; and Betaine is the most efficient osmolyte and acts as a first aid/ nutritional aid at the cells level, to restore the cell status to prevent dehydration and even apoptosis, in sever cases. Betaine dur ...
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Betaine all the way as osmo regulatory nutritional support the strategies I listed a while ago. Thanks
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Dear SirsTalking about nutritional alternatives to mitigate heat stress; maybe you can consider the use of Betain as an important osmoregulator.There is more than enough practical and basic research on this issue.Nice topic.Alfredo Irazusta.Alinat SRL.Argentina.
Participation in Forum on March 25, 2025
Dear Piotr, thank you very much for your point of view. It helps me use enzymes correctly, depending on the available substrates contained in the feed. I think that attention should also be paid to the methods of feed enzymes application, which have historically been used in different countries, this is 1) "over the top" of complete feed (for maximum absorption of nutrients) and also 2) "down spec ...
Participation in Forum on February 20, 2025
Dear Mohamed, thanks a lot, 100% agree, actually and important.
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Dear All,formulating in Bestmix, I also considered the total Ca and dig./av. P for the added phytase; and energy (ME) and AA for the NSP enzymes only. On this way I estimated to be on the safe side, because the nutrient matrix values indicate the amount of nutrient that could be released when the enzyme is added.In the past 10 years it became a trend to request and offer “matrix values&rdquo ...
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Can betaine replace any methione? Ana Gavrau, Global Technical Product Manager at Agrana, answers this questions and goes deeper on the function of betaine in poultry nutrition in this video.
Participation in Forum on November 28, 2023
This is probably one of the fundamental questions of modern microbiology, which has always focused on the search for criteria for identifying microorganisms. Remember Bergey's classic bacteria guide? The morphology of the colonies was supported by the composition of the nutrient medium. Then the criterion was the ability to metabolize specific carbohydrates. And now 16s sequencing has been added t ...
Participation in Forum on November 13, 2023
@Alvaro Dubois Dear Alvaro, thanks for discussion participance. I think we should return to the original topic of our discussion. There are good programs for optimizing diets, the issue is only in the matrix values of the added enzymes or in mixtures of these enzymes. The difficulty is that program developers must enter matrix values into the database of their programs. But they need assurances th ...