Gut Health

Thursday, August 27, 2020
Dietary butyrate glycerides modulate intestinal microbiota composition and serum metabolites in broilers
Butyrate can modulate the immune response and energy expenditure of animals and enhance intestinal health. The present study investigated changes in the intestinal microbiota composition and serum metabolites of young broilers in response t ...
Thursday, August 27, 2020
Development of the duodenal, ileal, jejunal and caecal microbiota in chickens
The chicken intestinal microbiota plays a large role in chicken health and productivity and a greater understanding of its development may lead to interventions to improve chicken nutrition, disease resistance and welfare.
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
Improving intestinal health with tributyrin and alpha-monobutyrin
Sustainable and efficient animal production is important in poultry husbandry. However, in commercial flocks, animals are subjected to multiple stress factors such as high stocking densities and suboptimal climate conditions which makes the ...
Monday, August 24, 2020
Composition and function of chicken gut microbiota
Studies analyzing the composition of gut microbiota are quite common at present, mainly due to the rapid development of DNA sequencing technologies within the last decade. This is valid also for chickens and their gut microbiota. However, c ...
Monday, August 24, 2020
Adisseo's Holistic 3-Step Approach to Improve Gut Health in Animals: Part III
As described in Part I and Part II, good gut status starts from a clean and safe feed that is well controlled for microbial and oxidative deterioration, including inhibition of mould growth during storage, elimination of pathogens such as S ...
Sunday, August 23, 2020
Exploring the true value of phytase: phosphorus and beyond
The integration of exogenous phytase into the feed industry in the early 90's was driven by an increased demand to cap phosphorus excretion by intensive poultry and pig production. In the following years, the research interest in this f ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Promoting gut health from nutrition in young animals
The withdrawal of various growth promoters based on antibiotics, or the restrictions of ZnO and CuSO4 for environmental reasons, has seriously affected specialised nutrition during the young animal phase as many of the problems that we have ...
Thursday, August 13, 2020
Managing heat stress via farm management and dietary approaches
Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company, is highlighting the damages producers take from heat stress and sharing data supporting how feed additives may limit financial losses by protecting animal health, oxidative balance and production during p ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Adisseo's holistic 3-Step approach to improve gut health in animals: Part II
As described in Part I, animal gut health is a symbiotic relationship, among feed quality, gut function and microbiota, includingfeed digestion, mucosal and barrier function, immune response and redox balance as proposed by van de Gutchte e ...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Improving ileitis and swine dysentery management
Also called Porcine Proliferative Enteropathy (PPE), ileitis is an infectious enteric disease. Its prevalence has getting very high in Europe and in Asia, reaching over 90% of the farms. The disease is characterized by thickening of the muc ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Innovative approach of the gut health management by combining microbiota modulation and prevention of intestinal inflammation
Gut health is a multi-factorial and complex topic, depending on the environment, farm management, feed and housing changes. It is also probably the greatest concern for meat producers because of its impact on growth performance, animal welf ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
6.5 million pigs successfully weaned with Vitazero by Agrimprove
With 100 tons of zinc saved and 6.5 million pigs successfully weaned with Vitazero, part of the 'Aim-4-Zero' approach, Agrimprove, pioneer feed mills and integrators are ready for the ZnO ban in 2022 by maintaining gut health of pig ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
Adisseo's holistic 3-Step approach to improve gut health in animals: Part I
Gut health is a multi-factorial topic, which can be described as symbiotic relationship among feed quality, gut function and microbiota, including feed digestion, mucosal and barrier function, immune response and redox balance as proposed b ...
Monday, August 3, 2020
Effect of dietary sodium diformate on gut health and profitability in broilers
It is generally agreed that good gut health is effective against intestinal pathogens and is the cornerstone to competitive poultry production, especially in broilers, where treating intestinal borne pathogens is too time consuming to be co ...
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Support the piglet's gut and avoid diarrhoea
A healthy and well-functioning gut is essential for a good piglet performance. Since 70-80% of the immune cells are located in the gut, a healthy gut, means a healthy piglet (Furness et al., 1999). Supporting the intestinal health of the pi ...

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