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The efficient conversion of feed into its basic components for optimal nutrient absorption is vital for both broiler and broiler breeder production and welfare. Gut health, an intricate and complex area combining nutrition, microbiology, immunology and physiology, has a key role to play. When gut health is compromised, digestion and nutrient absorption are affected which, in turn, can have a detrimental effect on feed conversion leading to economic loss and a greater susceptibility to disease. In addition, recent changes in legislation on the use of antimicrobials, differing feed requirements and more efficient birds highlight the need for a better understanding of gut function and gut health.
Fusarium toxins are one of the most common contaminants in poultry diets. Co-occurrence of fumonisins (FUM) and deoxynivalenol (DON), even at a subclinical dose, negatively affects the production performance and intestinal integrity in broiler chickens. Loss of gut integrity can be expected to alter the intestinal microbiota composition. This study evaluated the effects of subclinical doses of combined mycotoxins on the cecal microbiota composition and diversity in broiler chickens. Broiler...
1. Introduction The permeability of the intestinal tract controls the uptake of nutrients and the transport of unwanted extracellular substances such as bacteria and xenobiotics, in addition to the non-digested substances. Therefore, gut health plays an essential role in the pathogenesis of various intestinal disorders. The permeability of the intestine is controlled by gut microbiota, digestive secretions, physical barriers (mucin, intestinal epithelial cells lining and tight...
Sebastian Decap (Plantae Labs) comments on restrictions and alternatives to control Coccidiosis, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Bill Shannon (BioRankings) talks about microbiome, untargeted metabolomics, and other data that have high potential for changing how biomarker discovery research is done, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Iyabo Oluseyifunmi (University of Georgia) talks about the effects of feeding different types and levels of resistant starches on growth, digesta pH, digestive tract morphometry and jejunal histomorphology
in broiler chickens, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Sebastián Decap (Plantae Labs) talks about Necrotic Enteritis and his research results on possible natural solutions involving Quillaja extract, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Lindsey Wythe (University of Wisconsin, Madison) speaks on modulation of microbiota development by dietary treatment, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Glenn Zhang (Oklahoma State University) gives a talk about a possible synergy in host defense peptides induction among different classes of epigenetic compounds as an antibiotic-free approach to infectious disease control and prevention, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Revathi Shanmugasundaram (USDA) talks about the negative effects of these mycotoxins on production performance and intestinal integrity in broilers, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Monika Proszkowiec-Weglarz (USDA) speaks about the need to obtain comparable data sets for poultry microbiota, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Mariano Fernández Miyakawa (INTA, CONICET - Argentina) speaks on this group of polyphenolic compounds and their properties, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Tim Johnson (University of Minnesota) talks in depth about E. coli and Lactobacillus, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Leon Broom (Gut Health Consultancy, UK) speaks on the gut and host-microbiome interactions, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Guillermo Tellez-Isaias (University of Arkansas) gives a talk on the interactions between diet ingredients, gut microbiome, nervous system, immune system, endocrine system and mitochondria, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Haitham Yakout from Adisseo North America speaks about the mode of action of a mycotoxin deactivator solution based on mineral clays, deactivated yeast, botanicals, antioxidants, and its benefits on gut permeability, salmonella prevalence, redox status, and inflammation in broilers
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Andrea Bonetti (University of Bologna) talks about this nutritional supplement and its effect on intestinal integrity, during the Symposium on Gut Health in St. Louis, USA....
Research findings highlighting the efficacy of Xylanase, a NSPase marketed under the product name Xylamax by BioResource International (BRI), were shared at the Poultry Science Association (PSA) annual meeting held July 11-14 in San Antonio. The poster presentation detailed the improvement to body weight and gut health parameters that was achieved by supplementing with Xylamax during a study with 1,350 day-old mixed-sex Cobb 500 chicks grown to 42 days of age. The three feed treatments...
Many challenges are facing the broiler industry. Antibiotics have been used in animal feed to mitigate the negative effect from various sources; however, increased legislation restrictions and consumer demands are increasing pressure to limit antibiotics usage in the poultry production. The industry is continuing to investigate different approaches to protect chicken health while maintaining the feed cost load and improving desired growth efficiency. One way to do that is through...
Probiotics. Enzymes. Fiber. Gut Health. While these are all buzz words in human health, they are also topics that are increasingly being studied in the animal industry to aid performance and health of livestock raised to produce protein for human consumption. Moreover, as the poultry industry moves away from subtherapeutic antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) usage, multiple technologies have been explored to protect the health of birds from pathogens, while still maintaining low feed cost and...
Mike Kogut, Chair of the Organizing Committee, comments on the event's success and announces the dates of the next edition....