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Considering the impact of taste enhancers Commonly used in feed to enhance appetite by providing an attractive taste, the function of taste enhancers is to target the receptors of the 5 main tastes, namely: sweet, salty, bitter, acid and umami. Many tests and studies have demonstrated the positive effect on the condition of animals and in fine on performance. It is known that a good taste enhancer improves the taste of feed and stimulate consumption. However, some...
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The modern animal exploitation is characterized by a high productive intensity, regardless of the species. This makes the animals to undergo constant stressing situations that may result into a higher frequency of disease appearance and decrease of productive levels (Hernández et al. 2015 and Jaque et al. 2015), being the gastrointestinal processes some of the most outstanding problems affecting the profitability of the exploitation system used. Due to the current intensive...
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Can someone tell me more about this new -to me- terminology of osmolarity/osmolality of feeds for weaned piglets? Is osmolarity and osmolality the same? How do you determine this value for feeds? Or is it something you can measure? What is the required level of osmolarity for recently weaned piglets? ...
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Paul Toplis (AB NEO) discussed colostrum and milk replacers in piglets, among other subjects, during Pork Expo in Foz de Iguazú, Brazil....
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The modern animal exploitation is characterized by a high productive intensity, regardless of the species. This makes the animals undergo constant stressing situations that may result into a higher frequency of disease appearance and decrease of productive levels (Hernández et al. 2015 and Jaque et al. 2015), being the gastrointestinal processes some of the most outstanding problems affecting the profitability of the exploitation system used. Due to the current intensive...
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Potassium diformate (KDF) is a specifically conjugated acid double-salt, patented by ADDCON and traded as FORMI on the European and world-market. Potassium diformate has been approved in the European Union as a non-antibiotic growth promoter for use in diets for piglets, growing-finishing pigs and in sows. It was also registered as the first replacement for in-feed antibiotics world-wide. Previously, in the first part of this series, we discussed the effects of...
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Introduction It is generally assumed that the young pig up to about 70 kg body weight (BW) displays a limited physical capacity to ingest nutrients (Quiniou et al., 2000), and will respond to increases in dietary energy concentration with an increase in growth rate during an energy-dependent phase of growth. This phase is believed to extend up to 90 kg BW; however, the greatest limitation to ingest nutrients occurs in weaned pigs up to about 25 kg BW (Campbell, 1987; Whittemore,...
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60-80% of antibiotics are used for digestive problems. The period after weaning is known for its regular antibiotic application and could be a perfect target for an important step in antibiotic reduction. Restrictive use of antibiotics is no longer an exception, but a global target. Besides the EU, also the US and Asia, started to implement changes. To restrict antibiotic usage (and ZnO...
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Traditional pig feed technology
Raw material grinding - mixing - pelleting - cooling - grading - packaging
Shortcomings The anti-nutrient factors in raw materials cannot be effectively removed. Piglet may have diarrhea after eating. Poor palatability, low intake of piglet. Directly affecting the growth and weight gain of finishing...
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Introduction During the period of weaning transition, piglets are under a stressful condition that combined with nutritional, environmental, and immunological problems. Though antibiotics can apply to solve the poor situation of post-weaning, the concern about antimicrobial resistance to antibiotics enhances to find suitable alternatives to antibiotics. Probiotics are incorporated at the stage to maintaining intestinal ecosystem, enhancement...
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The weaning is a challenging period for the piglet, and the stressor factors involve, mainly, the new environment with new social interaction and change of diet. The pigs are handling and regrouped many times during their productive live (Martínez-Miró et al. 2016); however, during the weaning period, the consequences of this stress can lead to high production losses. After the birth, the piglet is highly dependent on specific and non-specific immune factors present in...
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Dr. Milena Sevastiyanova, Technical, and Commercial Manager Central Europe at Innovad, explains the results of some trials done in Europe in order to alleviate stress around the weaning, using Lumance®, during IPPE 2018, in Atlanta, USA...
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Introduction Nursery pigs often experience a lag in growth performance when transitioning from sows’ milk to dry feed during weaning. The lag is caused by several factors, including the dietary and environmental stresses associated with weaning. This post-weaning challenge can be associated with suppressed performance, diarrhea, and other intestinal health problems. While compensatory gain may occur as pigs become accustomed to solid feed, previous stresses may diminish...
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There are multiple approaches a swine nutritionist can take in diet formulation: maximize performance, minimize cost, or maximize profit. Within each of these approaches, there are suboptions to decide from: Growth performance basis Maximize average daily gain (ADG) Minimize feed efficiency (F/G) Cost reduction basis Minimize cost per kg of diet Minimize feed cost per kg of...
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Cargill is bolstering its young animal nutrition capability by investing more than $15 million USD investment to add a piglet feed production line at its existing premix and nutrition facility in Tianjin, China. The nearly 7,000-square-meter young animal nutrition facility features cutting-edge technology and systems...
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The feed intake of swine is a deciding factor for both health and growth. Its relationship with growth is obvious; it is the nutrient supply above maintenance which sets the upper limit to the growth of an animal. The impact of feed intake on health is underappreciated. Experiments with E. coli infections showed this nicely. These experiments aimed at screening feed additives against E. coli. However, each attempt to find effective additives, other...
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Ab Greven, Business Manager Palatability APAC for Nutriad, speaks to us about how producers can improve the feed intake of piglets using KRAVE®AP among other topics, during VIV Asia 2017, in Thailand....
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The intestinal mucosa possesses an extensive surface area and is exposed to a large and diverse number of microorganisms and potentially antigenic proteins throughout the lifetime of a pig. The mucosal epithelium is capable of assimilating vital nutrients while simultaneously excluding ingested pathogens and other harmful materials. In mature swine, an array of gastrointestinal defense processes act rapidly and collectively to intercept, neutralize or eliminate harmful antigens and microbes...
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World production of lipid sources Global production of vegetable oils has increased dramatically over the last 20 years with approximately 168 million metric tonnes produced in 2014. The primary vegetable oils produced in the world include palm oil (35 % of the total production), soybean oil (26 %), rapeseed/ canola oil (15 %), and sunflower oil (9 %). Other vegetable oils account for only about 15 % of the market, with palm kernel oil, cottonseed oil, peanut oil, coconut oil,...
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Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of supplementation of Cordyceps militaris fermentation products (CMF) on growth performance and immunocompetence of piglets. The study involved three groups of animals, which were supplemented with CMF (500, 1000 and 1500 mg/kg feed), and a control group. CMF supplementation significantly increased growth performance in weaned piglets. Bodyweight gain, average daily gain and feed intake in animals supplemented with...
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