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Enzymes are proteins involved in all anabolic and catabolic pathways of digestion and metabolism. Digestive enzymes are categorised as endogenous or exogenous. Endogenous enzymes are produced by the animal and exogenous enzymes are administered from outside. Enzyme supplementation decreases nutrient loss through excreta, reduces diets nutritional levels, improves nutrient availability; thus, enhances production efficiency and profitability. In addition, exogenous enzymes hydrolyse non-starch polysaccharides, increase the usage of feed energy, reduce negative impacts of non-digestive residues on digesta viscosity, and improve gut microbial ecosystem. Cellulase, glucanase, pectinase, xylanase, galactisidases, phytase, non-starch polysaccharides degrading enzymes, amylase, lipase, cellulase, and protease are the most common enzymes used in poultry feed.
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Poultry India just concluded the 14th Edition at Hitex Exhibition Centre, Hyderabad. The Exhibition featured the most innovative and reputed companies across the continent from the poultry sector to showcase their businesses.
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Research findings highlighting the efficacy of Xylanase, a NSPase marketed under the product name Xylamax by BioResource International (BRI), were shared at the Poultry Science Association (PSA) annual meeting held July 11-14 in San Antonio. The poster presentation detailed the improvement to body weight and gut health parameters that was achieved by supplementing with Xylamax during a study with 1,350 day-old mixed-sex Cobb 500 chicks grown to 42 days of age. The three feed treatments...
Supplementing broilers with EnzaPro, a feed additive formulated with a unique combination of direct fed microbials and xylanase, could decrease Salmonella colonization in birds, according to research shared at the Poultry Science Association (PSA) annual meeting held July 11-14 in San Antonio, Texas. EnzaPro is an enzyme additive marketed by BioResource International (BRI). The oral presentation detailed the research which analyzed the effect of 4 dietary treatments on Salmonella...
Many challenges are facing the broiler industry. Antibiotics have been used in animal feed to mitigate the negative effect from various sources; however, increased legislation restrictions and consumer demands are increasing pressure to limit antibiotics usage in the poultry production. The industry is continuing to investigate different approaches to protect chicken health while maintaining the feed cost load and improving desired growth efficiency. One way to do that is through...
Probiotics. Enzymes. Fiber. Gut Health. While these are all buzz words in human health, they are also topics that are increasingly being studied in the animal industry to aid performance and health of livestock raised to produce protein for human consumption. Moreover, as the poultry industry moves away from subtherapeutic antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) usage, multiple technologies have been explored to protect the health of birds from pathogens, while still maintaining low feed cost and...
The majority of pig and poultry diets are composed of about 70% maize or wheat, 20% soybean meal or other similar protein sources, and 10% micro-ingredients. Although this is a simplification, it illustrates the point that the majority of pork, poultry, and eggs are produced using a limited range of ingredients. In addition, it is important to note that feed cost is about 60-70% of overall production cost. And, as feedstuff prices continue to be prohibitively high, with detrimental...
A study was conducted to investigate whether the functional oligosaccharides released in situ as a consequence of fibre-degrading enzyme application ameliorate the severity of necrotic enteritis (NE) in broilers offered wheat- or maize-based diets. Day-old Cobb 500 mixed-sex broilers (n = 1536) were assigned to a 2 × 2 × 4 factorial arrangement of treatments, with six replicates per treatment, for 21 days. Factors were cereal type (wheat or maize), NE challenge (without or with),...
I. INTRODUCTION Xylans, together with β-glucans and cellulose constitute non-starch polysaccharides (NSP) that cannot be fully degraded by monogastric animals (Cowieson at al., 2008). NSPs have an antinutritive effect by increasing the viscosity of the intestinal digesta (Choct and Annison, 1992; Craig et al., 2020). This increase in digesta viscosity causes an impairment of nutrient bioavailability and a decrease in metabolizable energy, lowering the overall performance of...
I. INTRODUCTION With the recognition that pelleting can enhance the feeding value of barley in poultry diets, mostly through the break-down of cell wall matrix resulting a greater accessibility of encapsulated nutrients to digestive enzymes (Abdollahi and Ravindran, 2019), barley has been successfully used in pelleted broiler diets (Perera et al., 2019b; Perera et al., 2020). While the optimum inclusion level (Perera et al., 2019b) and particle size (Perera et al., 2020)...
Under certain conditions, elevated butyrate concentrations in the fore- and midgut may induce negative effects on microbiota diversity and/or inflammation. Hear what Dr. Tim Goosens -Global Scientific & Technical Manager - Health by Nutrition, ADISSEO- said about his presentation at the IPSF 2020 during IPPE in Atlanta, USA...
1. Introduction β-mannans (BM) are commonly present in a wide variety of feedstuffs, including soybean meal, and have been described as one of the major anti-nutritional factors for non-ruminant animals (Bertechini, 2013). Dietary BM are associated with negative effects in pigs and broilers, such as increased intestinal viscosity and decreased nutrient digestibility (Shastak et al., 2015). Despite being naturally found in non-pathogenic substances, these compounds may...
Introduction Today, the broiler industry plays an important role in supplying the protein requirements of the people of the world. Shortening of broiler rearing cycle enhances the importance of growth during the first week of life (Nistan et al., 1991). Although genetic selection for growth has affected the digestive tract of poultry, the digestive processes are not fully developed on the day of hatch (Croom et al., 1999). Therefore, the insufficient nutrient digestion and...
If Immunity is your top priority, Immunotech Forte™ is a synergistic combination of systemic enzymes such as Serratiopeptidase, Papain, Bromelain, Bioflavonoids,vitamins and amino acids. It is a fortified immunity enhancer to boost bird’s immune system, reduce stress and gain resistance to disease incidences....
Dr. Andreas Lemme, Director of Technical Consultancy, answers the question: what hinders or limits protein reduction today? “Firstly, one needs to have good knowledge about the composition and quality of feed ingredients. Technologies are available to quickly get the required information. In the context of amino acid nutrition, we have developed near-infrared spectroscopy calibrations to get the full analysis of ingredients within seconds..."...
Introduction Soybean meal (SBM) is the most important and preferred source of quality protein in animal feeds (Banaszkiewicz, 2011). Among the oil seeds, SBM contains the highest crude protein (CP) and has the best AA profile, with only 6% crude fibre (Dei, 2011). The AAs in SBM are highly digestible by poultry (Newkirk, 2010). Based on the CP content, SBM can generally be classified as high protein (47% - 50%), or low protein (44% - 46%). Popescu & Criste (2003) suggested...
Nutrients in most feed ingredients are present in a complex matrix. Therefore, it is anticipated that feed enzymes like protease can exert a wide influence on nutrient digestibility beyond their targeted substrates (Cowieson and Bedford, 2009). For instance, the disruption of protein matrix surrounding starch granules due to protease supplementation had been shown to improve energy digestibility in some cereal grains (McAllister et al., 1993). It is hypothesised that protease may benefit...
Introduction Soybean meal (SBM) is the most important and preferred source of quality protein in animal feeds (Banaszkiewicz, 2011). Among the oil seeds, SBM contains the highest crude protein (CP) and has the best AA profile, with only 6% crude fibre (Dei, 2011). The AAs in SBM are highly digestible by poultry (Newkirk, 2010). Based on the CP content, SBM can generally be classified as high protein (47% - 50%), or low protein (44% - 46%). Popescu & Criste (2003) suggested...
Mr. O.P. Singh - Managing Director of ABTL Enzymes, speaks about the main challenges that meat producers are facing in Asia and what can offer ABTL Enzymes as a nutrition and enzyme technology in Asia in this regard...
A balanced diet is key for human health promotion. Among essential nutrients Selenium is shown to be deficient in many countries worldwide. In animals as well as in humans, Selenium deficiency is associated with a compromised immunity and increased susceptibility to various diseases including the recent epidemic caused by COVID 19. Production of Se-enriched eggs, meat and milk could be an important approach to deal with human Selenium deficiency. INTRODUCTION Many...