Participation in Forum on June 12, 2023
Excellent presentation on natural antioxidants ,thanks Dr. Surai
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Peter Surai (FeedFood, UK; Vitagene and Health Research Centre, UK, among others) presents on Engormix his talk about antioxidants and their use in poultry production.
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Let's have discussions about this interesting topic on amino acids, feedstuff quality, and diet formulation for animals, including poultry and swine. Livestock, poultry, and fish have dynamic requirements for dietary nutrients. Therefore, adequate knowledge about principles of animal nutrition is essential for improving the growth and production performance, feed efficiency, as well as the health ...
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This important topic has been on my radar as an animal nutritionist. I added the take-home message from this excellent talk to my list below. Thanks for sharing!
Some solutions to mitigate the adverse effects of heat stress:
1. Dietary considerations:
1.1. stimulate feed intake by feeding crumble; feed during the cool hours as much as possible; increase feeding frequency; top-dress the feed using ...
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About 50-70% of all antibacterial agents used in broiler production are applied to reduce bacterial intestinal infections (bacterial enteritis).Properly conducted prophylaxis and appropriate follow-up can be effective methods of reducing the amount of antibiotics that are used in poultry production.Impaired feed digestion and nutrient absorption lead to the development of indigestion and diarrhoea ...
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INTRODUCTIONCommercial poultry production is associated with a range of stresses, including environmental, technological (Surai and Fisinin, 2016a), nutritional, and internal/biological (Surai and Fisinin, 2016b) ones. It is believed that these stresses are responsible for decreased productive and reproductive performance of poultry (Surai, 2002), and, at the molecular level, most stresses are ass ...
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Hi Fatai :
You mentioned tow reasons for high mortality in your layer flock one CRD and the other high body weight(too much fat) we can talk about each one separatly .
1- CRD - the disease is not so fatal as you told about your flock ,the disease agent mycoplasma
may be transfer from breeder flock to day old chick or flock be contaminated in rearing or production period ,CRD in layer flock mostly ...
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fatai adeyemi yisau Dear Mr.Yisau, Yes, fat excess is unpleasant thing at laying hens. At first, less meat quality (at old hens) and second, fatty liver syndrome (increase mortality). Don't forget also about possible mycotoxin intoxication. So, combination of fatty acids, betaine and hepatoprotector (sylimarine) is very reasonable. My firm produces original premix, containing these ingredients as ...
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fatai adeyemi yisau Dear Fatai, if we go by the video, fat reduction solution has been discussed, therefore having a review of your feed will be important. What feed do you buy or do you do your milling yourself? You can solve this question by doing a proximate analysis on your feed. As for CRD, there are factors that could have prevented your birds from getting better which could be;
1) Compromi ...
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Dear Fatai firstly are you the one making your own feed or you are using commercial feed? If you are making your own feed then check the ingredients you are using and the formulation. If its commercial feed you are using and there is still excessive fat deposition then add choline chloride which will enable them burn the excess fat then give them heparenol a liver tonic to r ...