Mojca Osredkar Mergole

I have very successfully recommended hydrolyzable tannins extract from edible chestnut for large producer of eggs in Russia. The product is used in amounts of less than 1 kg/ton of feed and improve several important production parameters of entire herds.

I use butyrates (Na or Ca) in broiler feeds; powder, protected form. They work well in the gut -modulate the microbiota and protect willi. They are particulary useful when no feed antibiotic (AGP) is added. But the "job" must be done in lower gut (intestine) not in the stomach. Then my doubt is how they could pass the stomach without protection-via water. The positive result is proven for powder,p ...