Effects of Toxi-free PLUS® on egg production in layers

Fungi and their toxic products easily grow in different environmental conditions, especially in humid and warm environment. This situation can happen during harvest, transport and storage. In feedstuff for animals, mycotoxins are undesirable but inevitable. It leads to that mycotoxins taken by farm animals in certain concentration and affect their performance with silent symptoms.

Toxi-free PLUS® (Life Rainbow Biotech Co., Ltd. Taiwan) is specially designed feed additives to protect animals’ health by counteracting mycotoxins through multiple strategies, which including mycotoxin degrading enzymes, selected-absorbent and herb extract, proven to be effective and specific in farm trial and scientific trial. The objective of the field trial is to investigate the feed apply Toxi-free PLUS® to improve the egg production and mortality rate of the layers.

13,000, 60-week of age, laying hens (Hy-Line) housed in traditional chicken house. The layers were divided into control group fed with commercial feed and treatment group fed with commercial feed with Toxi-free PLUS® (1 kg/ton feed) throughout 2 weeks. The egg production rate and the mortality rate are recorded.

Figure 1 showed the effect of Toxi-free PLUS® on the egg production rate and mortality between control group and treatment group after applying for 2 weeks. The treatment group showed higher egg production rate (1.8%) compared to control group and the mortality rate lower than the control group (0.06%).

The field trial demonstrated the beneficial effects on layer performance after applying Toxi-free PLUS®. The trial shows that intervention of Toxi-free PLUS® can induce an increase of egg production and reduction of mortality in layer. 

Feed contain mycotoxins and environmental stress factors will cause negative effects on animal immunity which increases the risk of pathogen infection and affects metabolic disorder, causing many chronic symptoms and interfering with vaccine efficacy. Hence, detoxifying mycotoxins in feed is an important issue needed to be concerned and take actions. The use of Toxi-free PLUS® that supports the production is recommended for long living animals.