Mieke Zoon

Charcoals have been known and appreciated for many years for their purifying effects and to improve the safety of drinking water and general detoxification purposes. How can we apply this knowledge to livestock animals to improve their gut health?Although charcoals have been known and appreciated for thousands of years for their purifying effects, only more recently, the specific quality and chara ...

We feed our pet animals more like humans than the animals they descend from. While the ancestors of our cats and dogs were mainly eating prey animals, nowadays a label of pet food looks more like a human dinner. How did that happen? Firstly, most cats and dogs are raised in a limited living space, either completely indoors, or partly outside. Especially in densely populated areas they are kep ...

For many decades the focus for sow farmers has been on increasing the number of total weaned piglets per sow per year. This number has been steadily rising, with more and more farmers now reaching the impressive number of 35 piglets weaned per sow per year. However, society has become more concerned about animal welfare, increasing the pressure on farmers to house gestating sows in groups, reduce ...

The Swiss company Pancosma SA developed the next generation of organic minerals now recognized to be a leader in animal feed markets around the world. The B-TRAXIM® 2C range has been developed combining science, physiology, chemistry and process technology for the most economical solution, optimal technical performance of animals and the highest safety and quality for the people working with t ...