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The Link Between Nutrition And Immune Health

Wednesday, June 21, 2017
The role of zinc, manganese and copper in rumen metabolism and immune function: a review article
Trace minerals are dietary elements required by the body in minute amounts, ranging from 0.10 to 50.0 mg/kg dry matter in beef cattle diets. These trace minerals are all necessary for the biochemical processes of the body that support prope ...
Wednesday, June 21, 2017
Effect of diet supplementation with chelated zinc, copper and manganese on hoof lesions of loose housed sows
Hoof lesions are very common among sows and have been associated with lameness, early removal and compromised welfare and productivity. Although housing conditions and management can have an external effect on hoof health status, the role o ...
Friday, June 16, 2017
Effect of supplementing organic selenium on performance, carcass traits, oxidative parameters and immune responses in commercial broiler chickens
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of supplementing various concentrations (0, 100, 200, 300, or 400g/kg diet) of organic Se on growth performance, carcass traits, oxidative stress, and immune responses in commercial broile ...
Thursday, June 8, 2017
Chelated Trace Minerals Boost Piglet Immunity, Growth
For decades, the global swine industry fed low levels of certain antibiotics to pigs to maintain gut health and improve growth. However, concerns about antibiotic resistance in humans and antibiotic use in animals have resulted in tightened ...
Thursday, June 1, 2017
Inorganic and organic trace mineral supplementation in weanling pig diets
A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary inorganic and organic trace minerals in two levels of supplementation regarding performance, diarrhea occurrence, hematological parameters, fecal mineral excretion and mineral retenti ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Trace minerals and livestock: not too much not too little
The new approaches of the animal production systems make managing the mineral nutrition a challenge. Versus the excessive, trace mineral supply in intensively managed livestock, well above the physiological requirements, is the no trace min ...
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Proper nutrition fundamental for strengthening sow offspring
Sows have been bred to increase litter size and milk production, as well as improve other productivity traits. With such successful selection, litter size has increased and, in general, piglet birth weight has decreased. Low birth weight pi ...
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
Mycotoxins in poultry - Prevention is key!
Mycotoxins pose a serious threat to the health and production levels in poultry farming. According to the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization), approximately 25% of the crops worldwide are affected. Most common mycotoxins toxic to poultr ...
Thursday, February 9, 2017
Better gut health prevents antibiotic resistance
As 70% of the immune system capacity of the birds is concentrated around or inside the gut, it is therefore easily understood that a good intestinal integrity will have a positive impact on the bird's immune status, reducing the need fo ...
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Chicken gga-miR-19a targets ZMYND11 and plays an important role in host defence against Mycoplasma gallisepticum (HS Strain) infection
Mycoplasma gallisepticum (MG), one of the most pathogenic Mycoplasmas, can cause chronic respiratory disease (CRD) in chickens. It has been suggested that micro-ribonucleic acids (miRNAs) are involved in microbial pathogenesis. However, lit ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
A white spot syndrome virus microRNA promotes the virus infection by targeting the host STAT
JAK/STAT pathway plays an important role in invertebrates during virus infection. However the microRNA (miRNA)-mediated regulation of JAK/STAT is not intensively investigated. Viral miRNAs, encoded by virus genome, have emerged as important ...
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Consequences of poor pelleting and feed processing - poor immunity and health
The poultry industries have undergone remarkable change and growth over the last 30-year, such that today we see 2.5-kg male broilers at 35 d of age, and white-egg layers are capable of producing in excess of 330 eggs in 52 week of lay. The ...
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
M-prove Poultry, a new solution to optimise profit in broilers
Reaching the genetic growth potential in a cost effective way is everybody's concern, therefore low disease pressure and optimal digestion are of utmost importance. With a good management, biosecurity, feed formulation and the right add ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
DSM: Improving antibiotic-free poultry meat production
The production of antibiotic-free (ABF) poultry is now a common trend worldwide, since growth promotant antibiotics (GPA) have been banned by some governments and because many consumers are increasingly avoiding food products that contain a ...
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
DSM: Gut health - Opportunities and challenges
Optimal gastrointestinal health and functionality is essential for sustainable animal production. Effective functionality (digestion and absorption of feed) and immune status of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) are important factors in dete ...
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