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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.
"Based on various studies we have conducted, MINTREX® itself can reduce the incidence of wooden breast in broiler birds," said Vivek Kuttappan...
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It is necessary that animals have a balanced intake of Feed and water.
Intake of water alongwith intake of Feed is an important indicator of the health of the animal.
Pigs and Poultry drink water twice the feed intake. Whereas Cattle drink water four to five times the feed intake. Hence, any deficiency in the feed can be supplemented by nutrients through water.
To improve the efficiency of animal functions, there are a number of nutritional supplements available but...
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Dr. Koushik De, Director of Technical Services for South Central Asia at Novus International, points out how MINTREX® helps producers and nutritionists to address key production challenges including gut health, nutrition, structural integrity, and protection against oxidative stress in poultry.
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INTRODUCTION Minerals are needed for all normal life processes and the physiological importance of minerals for farm animals, including poultry, is well documented (Spears, 1999; Underwood and Suttle, 1999). Recommendations for mineral requirements of poultry are available (NRC, 1994), but these are based on research with older strains and are inadequate and outdated for modern strains of poultry (Leeson, 2005). Despite the biological and economic importance, published data on...
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Introduction Precision Animal Nutrition is the effective use of available feed resources in order to maximize the response of animals to nutrients. It is an ideal method to improve the productivity of animals in developing countries in view of inadequate...
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Researchers from Spain and the Netherlands performed a study to determine if adding a mineral and vitamin mix (AHS and Vitamin C) would have an effect on broiler performance in heat-stressed conditions.
1,824 one-day-old birds were randomly allocated to 48 identical pens of 38 birds each. All birds were equally fed a 3-phase feeding program. There was no variation in feed throughout this study.
The control group(s) were...
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Dr. Bob Buresh, executive regional technical services manager, North America, points out the main benefits of Mintrex in breeders. Dr. Buresh told Engormix during IPPE 2020 that Mintrex® is a very defendable mineral source and brings value to the producers.
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Introduction: Pathogens and Iron Requirement E. coli accumulate large amounts of iron via multiple transport systems including enterochelin transport system (McIntosh and Earhart, 1977). Three tetracyclines were found to possess iron-chelating activity as part of the antibiotic activity. (Greinier et al., 2000) Clostridium perfringens produced larger colonies, with…ferredoxin, than that on the control medium. (Osman et al. 2013) Proposed that...
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INTRODUCTION Choline, a rediscovered vitamin B 4 that mostly exists in the form of phospholipids, plays a critical role in several biological functions in poultry. It is essential for building and maintaining cell membranes and organelles, such as mitochondria and microsomes, and for normal maturation of the cartilage matrix of the bone [1]. Moreover, it is an essential component of acetylcholine, the most common neurotransmitter in the nervous system involved in the...
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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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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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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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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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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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