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Alternative feed additives have promising importance in broiler production due to the ban on the use of certain antibiotics. The most used antibiotic alternatives in broiler production are phytogenics, organic acids, prebiotics, probiotics, enzymes, and their derivatives. Antibiotic alternatives have been reported to increase feed intake, stimulate digestion, improve feed efficiency, increase growth performance, and reduce the incidence of diseases by modulating the intestinal microbiota and immune system, inhibiting pathogens, and improving intestinal integrity. Simply, the gut microbiota is the target to raise the health benefits and growth-promoting effects of feed additives on broilers. Therefore, naturally available feed additives are promising antibiotic alternatives for broilers.
Trypsin inhibitors (TI) and urease activity (UA) are the two most relevant quality measurements for soybean products as feed ingredients for animals. TI were reported to be correlated with UA, so feed processing plants use UA as an indicator of TI in soybean meal (SBM). The objectives of this study were to determine the levels of TI and UA in 414 SBM samples from 19 different countries in 5 world areas, and to validate whether TI and UA are correlated. TI in solvent-extracted SBM were 2-6...
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Respected Srs, greetings. I have high water PH in my farm and I used citric acid as acidifier to reduce the PH .Has the acidified water by citric acid any effect on live vaccine that sometimes I used . ...
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Introduction The rising utilization of environmentally friendly processes in closing the feed resource supply gap and also in addressing the competitiveness in the supply of conventional feeds in the Nigerian poultry industry has remained a major focus of research (Ari et al.,2016). Melon Husk and Rumen liquor are common environmental nuisances especially in the North Central States of Nigeria where there is high production of melon and number of abattoirs and slaughter slaps....
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Chicken meat production is more sustainable and has lower environmental impact than porcine and bovine meat production. Chicken production uses less feed consumed for each kilogram of meat produced and uses less land and water for both farming and feed production (Flachowsky et al., 2017). Moreover, the broiler production industry has, for many years, continuously improved animal performance, reflected by ever decreasing feed conversion (kg feed consumed per kg body weight) and reduced time...
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Oxidative stress in animal production: how is it generated and how can we reduce it?
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1.Background The impact on the environment, welfare issues, as well as the economic implications are challenging globally the modern livestock production. Employment of new nutritional strategies to limit the impact of the livestock production on the environment, have become an important task. Optimization in the feed formulation lowering the crude protein content, for the so-called N-reduced feeding, is one of the best possible nutritional strategies for environment...
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Interesting facts The presence of fat in the diet inhibits the synthesis of fat from carbohydrates. The final composition of body fat is a pondered average among the fat produced endogenously from glucose, the quantity and composition of the fatty acids in the diet and the fat resulting from catabolism through b-oxidation (Ajuyah et al., 1991; Ferreira, 1999, Sanz et al., 2000b). Female broiler chickens tend to deposit more fat than male broiler chickens....
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Veterinary APIs Market Update: Price Trends & Key Insights – February 2025
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True that pellet should be hard enough to sustain handling process up to feeding. At the same time, too hard pellet may be not preferred by birds. Can anyone suggest the specification for good quality pellets for chicken? ...
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Júlia Pié (Biovet) presented research on natural products designed to replace commonly used additives, during the 8th Symposium on Gut Health in Production of Food Animals in St. Louis, USA....
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Energy is a crucial & essential constituent of poultry ration affecting consumption, performance and profitability of the farming business. Despite of precision in formulation many factors are responsible that can lead to variation in energy value of the poultry feed. Formulating the high energy diets like broiler finisher makes it mandatory to use oil in order to match the nutritional requirements of modern fast-growing evolved breeds. This crucial balance of energy-protein ratio mainly...
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Introduction To prevent the risk of developing pathogens resistant to antibiotics and also to satisfy consumer demand for a food chain free of drugs, the use of in-feed antibiotics in the European Union was banned in January 2006, and this policy is being considered in other parts of the world. Consequently, the poultry industry seeks an alternative for antibiotics as growth...
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Royal DSM, a global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, announces that it has reached agreement to acquire Erber Group for an enterprise value of €980m. The value of the transaction represents an EV/EBITDA multiple of about 14x the 2020 EBITDA (fiscal year ending September 2020). The transaction – which...
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Betaine supplementation has numerous positive effects on animal performance. Recent studies with betaine from sugar beet molasses looked if this naturally derived betaine can substitute a certain amount of added methionine in broiler diets. Betaine (BET) or trimethylglycine is a zwitterionic (neutral molecule with bipolar structure) quaternary ammonium compound. It was first discovered in the juice of sugar beets (Beta vulgaris) and afterwards found in other plants (spinach)...
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In the event From Seed to Feed, this round table was held t by Dr. Prashant Kumar Mishra and with the participàtion of Dr. Julieta Sierra, Ing. Ignacio Cabrera and Dr. Juan Antonio Serratos. They discussed how productivity in poultry farms has improved in recent years, the contribution of genetic selection, nutrition and management, and some nutritional advances in poultry production....
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Justin Fowler (University of Georgia) discussed his research on butyric acid and its protective effect against necrotic enteritis, while also comparing two applications (water and feed), during IPPE 2018 in Atlanta, USA....
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Introduction In recent times, there has been interest in the utilisation of whole grains to improve bird performance and reduce feed costs. Some previous research on whole grains simply added to a starter diet at graded levels has shown variable results on performance. Some studies have shown improved FCR, lower mortality, plus some carcass improvements and...
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As of January 2017, the FDA began a stricter regulation of antibiotics commonly used in the animal-feeding industry. Livestock and poultry producers alike have been accused of overfeeding various antibiotics, largely for growth promotion purposes (i.e., for increased feed efficiency and profitability).
The ones the medical industry and the consumer have been most concerned with are those deemed medically important for human use. The perception is: Various infectious agents that...
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Enzymes are widely accepted to improve the utilization of nutrients in poultry diets and increase the capacity of birds to perform on less digestible feed ingredients. However, increasing volatility in raw material prices for feed ingredients and stricter regulations on feed safety to control salmonella in poultry production, are changing the way we formulate and process poultry diets and requires more sophisticated enzyme technologies to maximize the efficacy of...
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Betaine is a multi-functional nutrient that exerts a number of important physiological functions at the gastrointestinal and metabolic level. ActiBeet®- is a nutritional aid supporting a better nutrient utilization, higher performance and carcass quality, increasing the production efficiency.
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Ricardo Esquerra, APC's Global Poultry Manager, highlights the return of investment with plasma nutrition and shows the results of different studies presented at IPPE in a wide variety of production scenarios and producer needs. ...
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