Strategies to cope with mycotoxins in animal production
The most critical health and nutrition challenge to livability of stock and livelihood of poultry farmers world wide and particularly in the humid sub Saharan Africa is mycotoxins contamination.
Mycotoxins effect in the poultry industry permeates vertically from upstream premium birds through the hatchery to the commercial down strean pullets and broilers.
Beside raw materials contamination used for feed formulation is the major source of the introduction of mycotoxin contamination to all categories of poultry that are exposed to feed contamination.
Livestock Industry foundation for Africa is currently preaching advocacy on compulsory phytosanitary requirements of evidence of inclusion of broad spectrum toxin binder in all parent stocks that hatched batches of DOC exportable by hatcheries from regions to regions within the sub Saharan Africa.
lIFA knowledge sharing on the nutrition and the implication of mycotoxin is supported by Zoetis foundation, and form part of knowledge sharing in Nigeria and currently with poultry farmers in selected six West Africa countries with a broiler population of over 800,000 Tons annual output
Why is mycotoxins the core health challenge facing the industry today?
Mycotoxins are secondary effects of climate change aftermaths on health and nutrition of livestock including poultry and are so detrimental to
sustainable Animal food security most devastating to the countries of the south Sahara Africa.
Mitigation strategies that can bind the five major toxins that are a combination of both large and small molecule toxin are most likely required in the heavily challenged tropical countries of the World.
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Multi-mycotoxins contamination exposes ruminant livestock to health and performance issue
I think that probiotics is one of the good approaches that will restrict the bioavailability of mycotoxins in animals gut. There are several reports stated that probiotics could be the best strategy to remove mycotoxins by binding mechanisms, particularly cell wall components of lactic acid bacteria involve in the binding and also it improves the growth performance of animals.
