Diformates on Broiler Performance

Good piece of work, organic acids are a good tool to control infection and improve the digestibility but they also have some negative points. It is always good to see some new research on organic acids that help the nutritionist to improve the use of these acids in diet.

Dear Sir, Your study on the use of Organic Acid especially on Diformates is self explanatory. But if you study the other parameters viz. Corrosive effects on machinery parts apart from production parameters with the effective solutions then it will be complete guideline for users. I hope you will come back to us with those parameters in next study. I think the use of Organic acids in the animal feed is the only substitute at present for AGPs. Thanks & regards, Dr. Jaydip

Dear Dr. Mulik, thank you for your opinion on the use of organic acids in animal feed. I agree with you that the use of organic acids is currently the most reliable alternative to AGPs in animal feed. In fact, potassium diformate is the first registered non-antibiotic growth promoter for the use in swine in Europe. Regarding your question on effects of organic acids in the animal vs. the impact of the acids on machinery corrosion... I do agree with you here as well. One of the main points of the article in question was the use of diformates. Diformates are double salts of formic acids. However, contrary to the formic acid itself, these salts are non-corrosive and user friendly, due to their cristalline structure. Diformates are therefore easy mixable and do not harm worker- nor machinery safety. This is one of the major advantages of acids salts over the use of pure, corrosive acids.

Dear Sir, I am using sawdust, sand and wood in broiler ration as feed ingredients. Do you have any information about this? Thanks

Dear Sir, we are not working in that field, however I know that high fibre diets, which may come from lignocellulose from specially processed wood can be helpful. You may contact an Austrian company called Agromed regarding this concept.