Gut Health

Monday, September 5, 2016
Completely manage early piglet development to improve growth, ROI
Early piglet growth and nutrition is one of the most widely discussed and researched topics in swine health and nutrition. And rightfully so. There are countless problems associated with early piglet development, and despite efforts to over ...
Friday, August 26, 2016
Dr. Eckel next generation acidifier strengthens pathogen defence of shrimp
Industrial scale aquaculture relies on the advantages of highly nutritious pelletized compound feed. The use of feed additives such as acidifiers has become a vital component of modern aquaculture production systems that are often threatene ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016
On the quest to find a high quality soy protein for piglets
Young animals like piglets need special care in feeding. At weaning stage, piglets need to cope with the change from suckling milk to eating solid feeds while their digestive system is not fully developed. This is also the reason why piglet ...
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Young piglet feeding in relation to a more cautious and restricted use of (feed) antibiotics
Antibiotics in feed is often the lowest cost option to promote the health of pigs and to prevent bacterial diseases. In new born piglets and weanling pigs health is most at risk compared to later stages of life. From all age categories of p ...
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Goal: Improve the homogeneity in your feedlots
Due to the great demands imposed by such a globalized market as the one involving the pig sector, the goal of every livestock company is to make their production as profitable as possible, in addition to being competent on the market. In or ...
Friday, August 19, 2016
Cut indigestible protein - and do piglet health a favour
One of the most important parameters when evaluating feed ingredients is the digestibility of the nutrients they contain. Published in nutrition guides, these digestibility values are often used in research projects to verify published data ...
Friday, July 22, 2016
Effects of diet particle size on poultry performance
Feed costs represent between 60 and 70 percent of production costs in poultry and livestock diets. Therefore, improving feed utilization has a tremendous impact on production costs. Poultry producers face the challenge of finding cost-effec ...
Monday, June 20, 2016
Nutritional factors and piglet intestinal development
This topic was presented at Hamlet Protein's seminar "Gut physiology development in young pigs - why is weaning age and digestibility so important?" at the World Pork Expo 2016 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Monday, May 30, 2016
Antibiotics in Aquaculture - Use, Abuse and Alternatives
The aim of this chapter is to present information about current knowledge regarding antibiotic use in aquaculture systems. This will include basic information, for example, mechanisms of action and resistance, the role of antibiotics in dis ...
Monday, May 2, 2016
Abrupt suspension of probiotics administration may increase host pathogen susceptibility by inducing gut dysbiosis
In this study, we investigated the risk associated with suspension of probiotics administration in tilapia. Tilapias were fed for 14 days using a probiotics-supplemented diet, followed by a three-day suspension of probiotics treatment and a ...
Monday, March 21, 2016
Feed additives as part of a broader gut health strategy
The right combination of carefully selected essential oil compounds and organic acids may offer a robust solution to address the multiple challenges of digestive health, both in AGP or AGP-free conditions. Of course, there are other additiv ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Feed enzymes support the challenge of growing food demand
Given both the ever-increasing demand for food allied to a long-term increasing scarcity in resources, better utilisation of all available feed ingredients will be critical in order for animal protein production to satisfy the growing globa ...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Well-targeted xylanase offers opportunity to improve feed efficiencies in swine diets
Traditionally, the inclusion of a xylanase has been most popular in swine diets containing higher levels of wheat or barley, where the ability to increase nutrient digestibility has produced reliable improvements in pig performance. However ...
Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Evaluation of soybean meal source and particle size on broiler performance, nutrient digestibility, and gizzard development
Although there have been several reports concerning the effects of particle size of cereal grains on productive performance of poultry, there is limited information about the effects of soybean meal (SBM) particle size on broiler performanc ...

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