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Minerals in poultry nutrition

Minerals in poultry nutrition are typically classified as macro- or micro-minerals, depending on the levels needed in the diet. The macro-minerals include calcium, phosphorus, chlorine, magnesium, potassium, and sodium. Requirements for the macro-minerals are typically expressed as a percentage of the diet, while the requirements for the micro-minerals are stated as parts per million. Although the quantities required for micro-minerals are lower than for macro-minerals, they play an essential role in the body's metabolism. The micro-minerals include copper, iodine, iron, manganese, selenium, and zinc.
USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation announce the completion of a funded research project at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, in which the role dietary calcium plays in necrotic enteritis (NE) development and pathogenesis was examined. The research was made possible in part by an endowing Foundation gift from the Sanderson Farms and is part of the Association’s comprehensive research program encompassing all phases of poultry and egg production and processing. A...
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Dr.S.R.Prabakar
Kemin Industries, Inc
INTRODUCTION Nutrition plays a major role in the performance of layer birds. Feed management is the most important practice to get egg production at a right time, maximum peak production, long standing peak production, standard egg size, good cull bird weight and reduced feed cost per egg. Body weight should be taken every week from 1 st week to 18 th week of age, the birds with less body weight...
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  It's not always that the high performance brings production stress to poultry, it's the way you deal with it. The high performing animals and feed is need of the competitive world. The crucial mission is to support them adequately to perform. Some choices are available as feed additives to control the production stress. But they are limited by their stability, safety  and...
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INTRODUCTION The main idea of using phytase in the diet for broilers is based on the reduction in the content of available phosphorus ( av P) accompanied by the inclusion of this enzyme. With this, it is expected that the av P content present in the diet, added to the content of phytate P ( phy P) made available by the catalytic action of the phytase, meets the P requirement of the bird (HAN et al., 2009). The industry related to broiler nutrition,...
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Dr. R.Y. Angle
Priya Chemicals
Priya Chemicals
Chel means CLAW in Greek. The Mineral needs a support to CLAW itself. This support is provided by Amino Acids and this organic support is called LIGAND in chemistry. Amino Acids have a very low molecular weight and can be absorbed easily through the walls of the intestine and hence are most preferred ligands for chelation. ...
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Miliane Alves
Miliane Alves and 2 more
Introduction Calcium reduction and phytase supplementation were considered an important combination in broiler nutrition. Wooden breast (WB) has been considered one of the most important challenges in the Poultry Industry in the 21st century. The superdosing of phytase can affect metabolic functions in the early life of broilers, and the studies with the interaction of this enzyme with calcium, phosphorus and carcass evaluation must be incremented. Based on this, calcium...
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Dr Ajay Bhoyar
Dr Ajay Bhoyar and 1 more
EW Nutrition
Recent findings indicate that altering broiler chicken diets can help mitigate the severity of woody breast and white striping, two poultry meat quality issues that appear to be increasing in prevalence in many markets. A multitude of poultry researchers are exploring various approaches to eradicate these myopathies, and Novus International’s poultry scientists have recently concluded that organic trace minerals fed in combination with an antioxidant can...
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Ruth Raspoet
Phileo by Lesaffre
Phileo by Lesaffre
In 1817, selenium (Se) was isolated for the first time by Berzelius. At that time little was known about its biological function, until its nutritional requirement was revealed about 140 years later by Schwarz and Foltz in 1957...
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Introduction Nanotechnology is regarded as the ability to manipulate measure, manufacture and make predictions at the scale of 1–200 nm. At the nanometer dimension, materials revealed novel properties, different to those of both, the isolated atom and bulk material that the properties depending largely on the size of the particles from which the material is made. The environmental stress can decrease production and all other important economical...
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Mickaël Briens
Adisseo
A variety of oxidative reactions occur continuously within our cells in a dynamic environment. One...
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Winston Samuels
Maxx Performance
A feed ingredient manufacturer had contracted an encapsulation company to produce coated minerals for use in a feed product for monogastric animals. She said that in warm weather, the material turned into rock-hard little pellets. If they were to mix the...
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Prof.Dr.Hasan Kutlu
Cukurova University
Cukurova University
Introduction It is well known that any molecule with an atom that contains a single unpaired electron in its outer orbit is termed an oxidant. These atoms are unstable and have a strong attraction for the electrons of other atoms or molecules in order to regain their resting state. The process of transferring electrons to the oxidant is termed oxidation, and a new free radical is formed in the process (Surai, 2002). In fact, oxidation is a very general process, which affects...
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I have been looking for a solid answer regarding this topic: Why do rickets occurs mostly in young chicks? Anyone having better knowledge is welcome to join this discussion... Thanks...
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Ariel Bergeron
Texas A&M University
Texas A&M University
Ariel Bergeron (Texas A&M University) presents her poster on calcium as an alternative to help mitigate the risk of Necrotic Enteritis, during IPPE 2020 in Atlanta, USA....
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Theros Ng
University of Georgia
University of Georgia
Theros Ng (University of Georgia) presented his poster on alternatives to alleviate Necrotic Enteritis infections, during IPPE 2020 in Atlanta, USA....
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Garros Fontinhas, Regional Business Coordinator South America for Selisseo® at Adisseo, explains the mode of action of Selisseo®, organic selenium in feed, as part of the series Minute Selisseo® ...
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Hear what Dr. Pierre-André Geraert, Director Scientific Marketing at Adisseo, has to say about the importance of selenium as a nutrient, in the series Minute Selisseo®...
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