Do you believe that adding a flavoring agent to your broiler or layer feed will improve performance? Your answer is probably no, or that you really hadn't thought about it. The early history of feed flavoring and taste research for poultry reads much the same way. Initially, poultry producers and some researchers felt that chickens had no real sense of taste and that flavor was of no consequence i...
Interesting article about Feed Flavoring for Poultry. The signifiance of industrial experiments are very often the results of a selection of experiments realized.
Dr B.L.Damron, intriguing his reports on the use of flavoring in the birds' diet. I think the conclusions are not consistent with the results of your study. Several works with birds are mentioned, in which the use of flavoring was not effective. As far as I know, birds do not show sensitivity to the use of these products, which does not seem to interfere with their pattern of voluntary food intake. As for the item Flavors: the Variety of Roles, the statement that this product can stimulate feed consumption in the summer, which normally occurs as an attempt by birds to reduce the heat production of nutrient metabolism, does not seem consistent to me. It even appears in this article, a study in which the use of flavoring did not result in improved performance of birds in the summer
From our experience, we can say that Turkey especially like sweet and react on NHDC and this is proven and for these terms you have a registration in EU. For Broilers was never easy to show it and a lot of was tested. We tested a lot in the past as well with rapeseed oil and sja against the derivates from palm or other sources with óptimised fatty acid content but it never showed really economical out. Broilers will not be that much about flavor. If you look at layers it seems that with age they refuse flavors they don't know from the early growth stage. But you can see that the structure of the feed is more important for a hen than the taste. We are testing with different sugar sources at the moment in the direction of slow release and gut fermentation and have good results, some look like the data from inulin. But these sugars are the same as you use in humans for having low carbohydrates. In drinking water in turkey, you see it much more often that sweeteners are used as sometimes they don't like to drink some cocktails of products applied via drinking water so a lot of vets I know use this from time to time. My tests are mainly from direct tests not scientific but now long enough here to see some things.
Interesting article. I am interested in knowing if there are any proven brands for chicken feed flavouring.
If they are there, can they be shipped to Kenyan animal feeds market.
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