The Link Between Nutrition And Immune Health

Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Only the highest quality feed enables animals to achieve optimal results
Moulds produce mycotoxins as a natural immune system. The presence of these mycotoxins may vary greatly since the development of moulds in the field (e.g. Fusarium spp.) or during storage (e.g. Penicillium, Aspergillus) depends on several f ...
Monday, April 11, 2016
Dairy producers feeding aflatoxins every day: is this a manageable problem?
Production losses due to mycotoxin contamination are clearly subject to a number of factors and uncertainties. The losses are hugely variable in time and difficult to estimate. However, the effects of the contamination are often significant ...
Friday, April 8, 2016
Effects of KDN phytase on the performance and Ca and P metabolism of broilers fed low phosphorus diets
An experiment was carried out to study the effects of phytase on the performance and calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) metabolism of AA broilers by supplementing phytase in low P diets. The basal diet (A) contained 0.41% of available P and di ...
Friday, April 8, 2016
Increase profits and reduce costs with the power of probiotics
Probiotics are the simplest, most cost effective way to improve your production and profits in shrimp farming. With one easy-to-use product one can increase survival, growth, yield, and improve water quality and FCR.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
Effect of SILICA+ on piglet growth performance
SILICA+ is an activated mineral capable of enhancing the rate of various biochemical reactions, nutrient and ionic transport across the gut epithelial cell membrane helping in rapidly restoring biological homeostasis. The technology used by ...
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
The use of medium chain fatty acids as alternatives to antibiotic use in pigs
Worldwide there is a clear demand to reduce the antibiotic use in livestock farming to reduce the risk for antibiotic resistance. Medium chain fatty acids are well known to exert excellent antimicrobial properties. For this reason they are ...
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Unique combination, matchlessly broad spectrum, your choice: AntaOx Aqua, excellent by nature
Anta®Ox Aqua is a unique plant-based feed additive. It contains a carefully composed combination of valuable flavonoids, developed to face the challenges in modern aquaculture – in a natural way. Extensive research has impressive ...
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 ...
Thursday, March 3, 2016
Superliv - A boon for poultry industry: A review
Liver, the largest substantive gland of the body, needs to be given special attention not only because it controls most of the metabolic functions of a bird but because of its direct role in feed utilisation and production performance as we ...
Thursday, February 18, 2016
Live attenuated influenza vaccines against Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Avian Influenza: Development and preclinical characterisation
In this paper we describe the development and the outcomes of the preclinical studies of temperature-sensitive and cold-adapted candidates for live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) based on highly pathogenic avian influenza viruses A/H5N ...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Use of yeast probiotics in ruminants: Effects and mechanisms of action on rumen pH, fibre degradation, and microbiota according to the diet
The valorisation of fibrous feed sources by ruminants is possible thanks to their unique digestive system involving an intensive preliminary ruminal fermentation step prior to a more classical enzymatic phase. The reticulo-rumen hosts a hig ...
Saturday, February 13, 2016
Effects of fish meal substitution with poultry by-product meal on growth performance, nutrients utilisation and blood contents of juvenile Nile Tilapia
Four isonitrogenous and isocaloric diets (30.22 ± 0.02% CP and 19.007 ± 0.015 MJ kg-1 diet) were formulated to represent four dietary treatments. The first treatment (control) was without poultry by-product (PM0), while the second, third an ...
Friday, February 5, 2016
Comprehensive strategy to fight mycotoxins in poultry
Using an ordinary toxinbinder is not enough to manage complex mycotoxin risks, and studies have shown the importance of employing a comprehensive mycotoxin management programme, including a combination of diagnostic services to create a tho ...
Friday, January 22, 2016
Understanding nucleotides and their mode of action (Part 1)
For years, nucleic acids and nucleotides were not considered for use in any dietary programme. It was assumed that all organisms are able to supply sufficient amounts of nucleotides to meet their physiological demand at any time. However, s ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Boosting the cow's natural immune system to reduce antibiotic resistance
Mastitis is the most expensive, often recurrent, disease in dairy farming. The inconvenience and costs associated with clinical mastitis are most visible. However, subclinical mastitis (cows with elevated somatic cell count) is responsible ...

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