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Gut Health

Wednesday, May 16, 2018
BeneGut: An anti-diarrhea alternative for piglets
Since Danish scientist Poulsen reported in 1989 that high dose zinc oxide could reduce the diarrhea rate of weaned piglets and improve growth, the substance is widely used in piglet feed. Still, problems caused by high dose zinc oxide are r ...
Tuesday, November 14, 2017
Phileo Gut health program: For an optimal feed transition at weaning
Weaning piglets from the sow is one of the most stressful events in the pig's life and can contribute to intestinal and immune system dysfunctions, compromising pig health and resulting in reduced growth and feed intake, particularly in ...
Thursday, November 9, 2017
Young animal nutrition: right nutritional strategy for piglets
Weaning remains a critical phase in pork production association with digestive disorders causing growth retardation, diarrhea, and even death. Weaning increases susceptibility of piglets to a variety infectious disease due to the attenuatio ...
Thursday, November 2, 2017
Fat digestion in piglets: the importance of feeding the right fat
Adding fats or oils to an animal diet provides the animal essential fatty acids which are needed for growth and production. The digestibility and effectiveness of the fatty acids can differ between sources and vary depending on the maturity ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Phileo gut health program: For an optimal weaning preparation
Maintaining gut health in young piglets has far-reaching implications for the entire pig growth cycle and should therefore start in the farrowing crate, by ensuring that piglets ingest enough colostrum and milk during the suckling period fo ...
Thursday, October 12, 2017
Feed holds the key to a healthy young animal gut
Ensuring that the gut is healthy is critically important for all of life's activity, since all nutrients must of course be absorbed through the gut. The right raw material choice therefore, limits the growth of pathogenic bacteria in yo ...
Monday, September 4, 2017
The application study of highly efficient zinc additive on anti-diarrhoea and growth promotion effects
Zinc is one of the essential trace element for maintaining life activities of animals. The high dose zinc oxide was widely used in piglet feed since it is reported in 1989 by the scientist Poulsen from Denmark firstly that high dose zinc ox ...
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Diformates and 3rd generation acidifiers in antibiotic-free feeding - impacts in sows and piglets
With costs of pig production under increasing pressure, the nutrition of young pigs is of increasing interest, as this period is critical to the subsequent performance of the animals through to market. Optimising growth rate and feed effici ...
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Gut Health: the New Paradigm in Food Animal Production
Optimal gut health is of vital importance to the performance of production animals. Gut health is synonymous in animal production industries with animal health. Although there does appear to be a direct relationship between animal performan ...
Thursday, June 15, 2017
Alternatives to zinc oxide for more potent piglets
In intensive pig production, weaning is a challenging, stressful experience for young piglets. They have to cope with an abrupt separation from their mother, being mixed with other litters in a new environment, and have to switch from highl ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
Promising results from field work in Southeast Asia on preventing White Faeces Syndrome in white shrimp using a functional feed additive
White Feces Syndrome (WFS) is the cause of significant crop failures of white shrimp in Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam and India. The present series of field trials in collaboration with shrimp producers in Malaysia and Indonesia, aimed at ev ...
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
The use of Lactobacillus as an alternative of antibiotic growth promoters in pigs: a review
Antibiotics, often supplemented in feed, used as a growth promoter, may cause their residual effect in animal produce and also trigger antibiotic resistance in bacteria, which is of serious concern among swine farming entrepreneurs. As an a ...
Thursday, March 2, 2017
Feed Farm Health approach to reach natural gut health while reducing antibiotics
Big data from animal trials show how feed, farm and health management contribute to reduced antibiotics in poultry production, while maintaining performance and profitability. Poultry integrators are an important part of the food chain and ...
Thursday, February 23, 2017
Reducing antibiotic resistance; what to expect from feed additives?
Microorganisms, such as bacteria, fungi and parasites, can develop resistance against antimicrobial substances, such as antibiotics, antifungals and anthelminthics. As a results, these antimicrobial substances become ineffective in limiting ...
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Holistic approach to help deal with antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an increasingly serious threat to global public health that requires action across all government sectors and society. Without effective antibiotics, the success of major surgery and cancer chemotherapy wou ...
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