Effects of Mycotoxins on Poultry Health and Productivity
Published:January 1, 2002
Summary
Aflatoxin affects all poultry species. Although it generally takes relatively
high levels to cause mortality, low levels can be detrimental if continually fed.
Young poultry, especially ducks and turkeys, are very susceptible. As a general
rule, growing poultry should not receive more than 20 ppb aflatoxin in the diet.
However, feeding levels lower than 20 ppb may still reduce their resist...
Good article about Effects of Mycotoxins on Poultry Health. How to overcome this kind of problem? If we use probiotics like mannanoligosyccharides, can we solve this problem to an extent?
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Rasakmajid
6 de agosto de 2008
Interesting article about Mycotoxins on Poultry Health. What happens if we found our feed contaminated with 57 ppm and 32 ppm, T2 toxin and zearalenone, respectively? Will it cause badly to our broilers and how to overcome it?
In most cases like that, you can combinated an adsorbent in your feed; however you should carefully choice which kind of sorbent can adsorb T2 and zearalenone.
NQT Vietnam
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Kurt Wegleitner
21 de agosto de 2008
Well, if the findings are really ppm and not ppb (which is more likely) than there is not much to do than to dilute the raw material till the findings are about a 10th of what you stated. Please note, that trichothecenes such as T2 Toxin can not be adsorbed and you would have to use a product like Mycofix Plus or Mycofix to deactivate the toxins!
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DR. RAMMOORTHY D
22 de agosto de 2008
When we find higher level of mycotoxins on poultry alone or mixed we should follow the steps immediately to overcome the issues:
Step1
* Send the feed for mycotoxin analysis.
Step 2
* Identify the toxins and their level.
Step 3
* Change the feed or dilute it with fresh feed like 20% old feed + 80% new or fresh feed which is free from mycotoxin. * Try to reduce protein level in the feed slightly for 3 - 4 days till the problems settle down.
Step 4
* Try to use the mycotoxin destroyer or multitoxin binders a good brand. * Try to use herbal/natural liver tonics that prevents furthr liver damage and helps hepatic cells rejuvination faster. * Increase biotin level or include biotin in the feed to protect liver and Kidney especially aflatoxin. * Any immune stimulant oral tonics can be given however, its optional.
Any hepatoprotective liquid containing propionic acid, formic acid, oligosaccharide and some herbal extracts are doing good response. There are some products available but all this liquid toxin binder should not to have vitamin B complex if intented to be used in conditions like sudden death syndrome in birds above 6 week complicated mycosis.
Dr Kedar
Kathmandu
Mycotoxins is a real big problem in the poultry industry, so:
To minimize the mycotoxin effect we may use toxins binders, liver tonics like biotins, choline chloride, heparenol or even maybe herbal products. We may also consider giving vinegar to flush the kidneys.
But most important is to know your corn supplier and a good lab to do testing.
Thanks.
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Dr. Habib-ur-Rehman
25 de noviembre de 2008
The article is helpful in understanding how mycotoxins have a negative impact on poultry health and egg production. If the author has studies about its effects on hatchability of Broiler breeder please publish. I think it lower the hatchability in all kinds of poultry.
Best way to control toxins is that we must not use material with toxins. This could only be done by strict quality control of material. Your lab must be well-equiped to check all kinds of toxins in the material entering your feed mill. If you are using material with high toxin level, it means poor management. When toxins are present in a feed at disease causing levels then adding any medicine to control its bad effects are usually does not work, rather they multiply bad effects of toxins. Best way is to discard to feed or dilute it. Organic acids usually help by improving digestion process within the body and they help better absorption of nutrients through intestines.
In some areas, grain supplier dispatch grain in jute or plastic bags and they are very active to deceive purchaser because they mix fist half of bags with good quality maize and 2nd half of bags with poor quality maize . In such cases some times becomes too much difficult to control poor quality maize in lower bottom of bags during rush hours of season . Purchaser think that we have purchased good quality maize but actual he has deceive by supplier .this type of maize is stored in grain silos and it uniformly mix in silo grains .when silo unloading started and samples collected then only 2-3 grain are comes with fungal contamination. people ignore them but i will say these grains are also problematic in commercial feeds .
Good day,
Can anyone on this forum tell me how to rectafy a Mycotoxins problem in duck breeder situation? Breeder have dropped production by 50 %. Which product can be used in the drinking water?
Appreciate any and all comments,as soon as possible.
Cor Van Pelt.
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