Elanco - Paylean Expected to be Available in Canada this Fall
Published:August 8, 2005
Source :Elanco Animal Health
Canadian swine producers will soon have access to Paylean, a feed ingredient that has been used around the world for several years to increase lean meat and decrease fat in hogs.
Paylean is a widely used swine feed ingredient that was first approved for use in the United States in 1999.
It is currently being used in 22, countries including Australia, Brazil and Mexico and Canada has become the 23rd country to approve the product.
Elanco Animal Health Swine Marketing Associate for Canada Colin Hatch says Paylean allows more consistent swine production which allows the packer to pass on a more consistent pork product to the consumer.
“Paylean works by directing nutrients to increase the amount of quality lean pork and high value meat cuts.
Since lean is more efficient to produce than fat, pigs gain more weight with less feed.
The benefits really are that market weight is reached in fewer days with less feed and there's more high value salable cuts with less waste and that's on a per carcass basis as well as a per pig basis.
There's a few things that producers will need to do.
They'll need to contact their nutritionist before they start to use Paylean.
One of the things that needs to be done is we need to increase the amount of lysine in the feed when Paylean is being fed.
That is to fuel the increased protein production that turns into meat.
Paylean would be fed for an average of the last 28 days in the feeding period of a market hog and we're recommending a five parts per million dose range right now”.
Hatch says Elanco intends to take the time to make sure stakeholders within Canada have an opportunity to learn about Paylean and what it has to offer prior to its release.
He expects Paylean to be made available for sale in the Canadian marketplace this fall.
