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Enzymes in poultry nutrition

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.
Dr. Peter Selle
The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney
All grains, vegetable-based protein meals and their by-products used in poultry diets contain some levels of phytate phosphorous (PP). Depending on the ingredient type and source, a typical broiler chicken diet would contain between 2.2 to over 3.5 g/kg dietary PP. Research has shown that phytate anti-nutritional effects can reduce the digestibility of amino acids (AA) and minerals. Previously the effect of phytase on AA digestibility was reported in broilers at 21 days of age (Toghyani et...
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Dr. Megharaja Manangi, senior research scientist at Novus International, discussed how producers can improve feed durability and cut costs through post-pellet fat application during the annual International Poultry Scientific Forum (IPSF) at IPPE 2019. ...
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Peter Ferket
Peter Ferket and 3 more
North Carolina State University - NCSU
North Carolina State University - NCSU
Broiler chickens spend one third of their lives developing inside an egg. Hence, understanding and optimising the in ovo environment is fundamental. The pH of body fluids is tightly regulated to maintain critical physiological functions such as gas exchanges. Enzymes equally have an optimum pH range that determines their efficiency. Changes to these conditions, may impact on the efficiency of O2 transport or enzyme activity. Embryonic development requires a continuous flow of O2 delivery and...
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Dr. Junaid Syed
Rossari Biotech Limited
Determining the right mix of Enzymes is a critical pre-requisite to ensure optimization of Digestibility. With Rossari Biotech, embark on the journey of unraveling the benefits of using the right mix of Enzymes and increase the Profitability....
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Mr. O. P. Singh
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
Mr. O.P. Singh, Managing Director of ABTL, speaks about the new tagline of ABTL "Where Innovation Meets Technology", and also ABTL's commitment to research & development and its impact on product innovation...
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Mr. O. P. Singh
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
Mr. O.P. Singh, Managing Director of ABTL, speaks about how ABTL differentiates itself as a leader in providing affordable poultry enzyme solutions...
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Mr. O. P. Singh
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
Mr. O.P. Singh, Managing Director of ABTL, points out the long term mission and vision of ABTL. ...
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Mingan Choct
Mingan Choct and 4 more
University of New England
University of New England
Feed additives have a promising impact on broiler production in improving performance and reducing the incidence of diseases in the post-antibiotic era (Ayalew et al. 2022). However, there are limited data that illustrate the effect of feed additives on broiler performance under necrotic enteritis (NE) challenge. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the impact of an enzyme (xylanase, 3000 U/kg) and a probiotic (Bacillus subtilis, 2.2 × 108 CFU/g) on growth performance and...
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Dr. Junaid Syed
Rossari Biotech Limited
The positive impact on profitability of intelligent solutions applied to production becomes more important in the face of advances towards intensive breeding with higher demands. These include maintenance, improved farm performance, genetic improvement, environmental improvement, biosecurity and, very importantly, nutrition management. Because feed represents 70% of production costs, coupled with high ingredient prices, profitability and food safety are affected. In seeking to control...
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R.J.R. Mosaso
R.J.R. Mosaso and 2 more
University of the Philippines
I. INTRODUCTION With the recent COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the regular supply chain in agriculture and threatening food security, it is imperative to look for innovative ideas to meet the population's food demand (FAO, 2021). The agriculture sector is pressured to offer sustainable, economical, and ethically-produced animal protein. Egg, a cheap and relatively easy-to-produce commodity, is one of the best candidates for such protein. Thus, there is a surging increase in layer...
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Maria Francesch
IRTA
IRTA
I. Introduction In all vegetable-based diets such as wheat, corn and soybean meal, up to 83% of dietary phosphorus (P) is bound to phytate (Li et al., 2016; Aureli et al., 2017). Phytate is known to contain bound P that is unavailable to the broilers, resulting in the use of inorganic-P sources such as monocalcium phosphate and dicalcium phosphate (NRC, 1994) in order to fulfill the broiler P requirements. However, the use of inorganic-P sources in broilers not only increases the...
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Sudipto Haldar
Sudipto Haldar and 2 more
I. Introduction Phytase enzymes are commonly used in the pig and poultry feed industry mainly to increase the availability of phosphorus (P) from plant ingredients. Additionally, phytase improves the availability of other nutrients such as Ca, digestible amino acids (AA), and energy (Dersjant4Li et al. 2015a) by facilitating breakdown of phytate P and thus negating its anti-nutritional effects on nutrient digestibility. Combination of Phytase with NSP enzymes has proven to be an...
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Mr. O. P. Singh
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
ABTL Advanced Bio-Agro Tech Ltd
Mr. O.P. Singh, Managing Director of ABTL Enzymes, shares his thoughts on the recent edition of KIPF 2024, addressing the role of ABTL as a pivotal player in the global animal feed industry...
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Feed accounts for more than 70% of total production cost in Poultry and optimization of performance using least feed cost is one of the pre requisites to ensure profitable Poultry production. With changes in the raw material availability, price, quality and so on, there is a huge demand to finding alternate forms of ingredients which optimise the performance and at the same time do not allow the feed cost go to the higher side.  Although alternative ingredients are an economical...
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John Boney
John Boney and 3 more
PennState - University Pennsylvania State
PennState - University Pennsylvania State
John Boney (Pennsylvania State University)      New generations of feed enzymes are included to enhance nutrient utilization. This study was designed to evaluate the efficacy of a new generation phytase, HiPhorius (HP), and protease, ProAct 360, when fed to peaking hens. Dietary treatments included Positive Control (PC), Negative Control 1 (NC1) at 0.15% nPP, NC1+600 FYT/kg HP, NC1+900 FYT/kg HP, Negative Control 2 (NC2) with a 2% crude protein (CP)...
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Dr Charles Brearley
University of East Anglia
University of East Anglia
Introduction There are four forms of phytic acid (inositol hexakisphosphate, InsP 6 ), which have been identified in nature, myo, neo-, scyllo- and D-chiro-, that differ in their stereochemical conformation (Fig. S1) and association with metal ions as phytates in different soils (Turner et al., 2002). Among these, myo-inositol hexakisphosphate (InsP 6 ) garners the most attention from plant scientists. It is the principal storage form of phosphorus in plants,...
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I. INTRODUCTION As we learn more about the negative impacts of calcium (Ca) on the availability of phosphorus (P) in broiler diets, it highlights how little we know about Ca requirements, digestibility of Ca in ingredients and optimal Ca to P ratios. The interactions through which Ca exerts some of its negative effects can be direct or through chelation’s with phytate and the latter having a profound impact on the efficacy of phytase and on P digestibility....
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John Boney
PennState - University Pennsylvania State
PennState - University Pennsylvania State
John Boney (Pennsylvania State University) comments on improvements in egg production with superdosing of phytase while reducing phosphorus, in this Engormix interview during IPPE 2024 in Atlanta, USA....
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Velmurugu Ravindran
Massey University
Massey University
Soybean meal (SBM) and canola meal (CM) are two plant-based protein sources which contain reasonable amounts (2.9 and 6.8 g/kg, respectively) of calcium (Ca). Currently, no published values are available for the Ca digestibility in SBM and limited studies (Anwar et al., 2018; Moss et al., 2018) are available for the Ca digestibility in CM. Microbial phytases are now routinely added in poultry diets to improve the bioavailability of phosphorus (P) bound to phytate (myo-inositol hexaphosphate)...
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Dr. Peter Selle
The University of Sydney
The University of Sydney
I. INTRODUCTION Phytase is commonly used in broiler diets at a typical dose level of 1000 FTU/kg feed to increase the P availability from phytate and reduce the need for inorganic phosphate inclusion. Increasing the phytase dose above this level is expected to further reduce the need to add inorganic phosphate and further reduce P excretion. In addition, if a phytase can break down phytate quickly and completely in the upper gastrointestinal tract, it will mitigate the...
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