Profitability in production and smart solutions to optimize it

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 high prices, the introduction of low-cost alternative raw materials also increases the levels of anti-nutrients and enzyme substrates found in diets. It is therefore necessary to turn our attention to nutrition and consider intelligent solutions that allow us to optimize animal performance.

Main factors to consider:

- intestinal health and immunity

- the quality of raw materials

- the associated organ systems (including the immune organs and the intestine). Taking this into account we will achieve the optimization of intestinal health, obtaining a healthy intestine that achieves optimal digestibility of the nutrients offered in the diet. When focusing on how to optimize digestibility, we must take into account that birds only utilize between 75 - 80% of the nutrients that we offer them in the feed. 

The remaining 20 to 25% is wasted and results in nutrients that the birds will not be able to utilize and will simply eliminate. Many of these nutrients are found in the cell walls of the endosperm, which as long as they cannot be released, either by grinding or enzymatic degradation, these will be nutrients that will be trapped unused by the birds.

Considering that the main components of the cell walls of the endosperm are cellulose and arabinoxylans, and in the network that these form we will find trapped nutrients, such as proteins or starches, which will not be available for the use and utilization of the birds.

On the other hand, in order to take advantage of the non-digestible energy-rich components, i.e. non-starch polysaccharides, the structure of the substrate-enzyme complex must be taken into account, which allows the digestion of these nutrients, called resistant nutrients. These polysaccharides form an important part of the cell wall, representing 70% to 80% of it.

Corn and soybean, main ingredients of poultry diet in our region, contain a high number of non-starch polysaccharides, such as arabinoxylans, hemicellulose and corn cellulose or speaking of soybean, we can comment the β-mannans, pectin, cellulose or β-galactosidase.

This demonstrates the need to work with a broad mix of carbohydrases, not just one, to act on these non-starch polysaccharides to achieve a performance response.

There are several commercial exogenous enzymes, including carbohydrases, proteases, phytases, among others. With the supplementation of these enzymes we can increase the productive value of diets, eliminating the trapping effect of nutrients mentioned above, or through the hydrolysis of carbohydrate-protein bonds, in which they are sequestered, or releasing phosphorus, releasing minerals, among others; and thus, converting non-starch anti-nutritional polysaccharides into probiotics that will support intestinal health.

Consider also that complex diets, diets with new ingredients and nutrients, also need multiple substrates and will require a multi-enzyme solution to be treated to get the most out of them. The interactions between proteins, fibers and starches will reduce the nutritional value of the diet, so the activity of a single enzyme is not going to be sufficient to get the most out of them.

Maxizyme EX, the flagship product of Rossari Biotech, a company represented by CKM Peru, is an alternative present in the market to achieve the maximum utilization of the nutritional matrix and to achieve the hydrolysis of the fiber. It is an enzyme complex of granular presentation from a microbial strain, and is achieved with a process that has three fermentation moments in its manufacture, thus obtaining enzymes in significant quantities, which is more efficient than other manufacturing methods.

This enzyme complex is oriented to work on the main non-starch polysaccharides in cereals and protein flours with the presence of cellulases, xylanases, galooxidases and β-mannonases, in addition to the presence of proteases, α-amylases and lipases that optimize nutrient digestion and phytases responsible for the dephosphorylation of phytic acid releasing chelating cations, amino acids and available phosphorus.

In conclusion, the use of exogenous enzyme programs is a very useful tool to manage feed digestibility and thus also to reduce its cost, favoring the productive profitability of poultry.