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Vitamin C-Strategy for improving laying hens during the late laying period
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Currently, commercial laying hens can be kept past the age of 80 weeks. egg production performance experiences a rapid decline towards the end of the laying cycle. In addition, when the hens' bodies are more likely to produce large levels of free radicals during the later stages of the laying cycle, which in turn h ...

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Innovation in Formaldehyde-Free Feed Disinfectant: Strengthen Feed Biosecurity and Protect Animals from Pathogen Infection
Thursday, October 10, 2024
In modern livestock farming, a robust biosecurity program is crucial for ensuring healthy animals and safe food production. Feed safety is a vital component of biosecurity management. Feed and feed ingredients have been identified as key transmission vehicles for pathogens such as Salmonella spp.

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Feeding Spray Dried Plasma (SDP) Improved The Efficacy of a Candidate African Swine Fever Virus (ASFV) Vaccine
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
African swine fever virus (ASFv) can cause high mortality in domestic swine and affects global trade of pork with severe economic consequences for producers, affiliated industries, and communities involved in pork production. Swine producers in endemic regions afflicted by ASF continue to search for strategies to prote ...

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Phytobiotics: Sit Back & Relax - Isoquinoline Alkaloids Have A Positive Impact On Stress
Friday, January 26, 2024
Plant-derived isoquinoline alkaloids have been shown to have a positive impact on gut integrity due to ‑‑ their anti-inflammatory properties.

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Bioavailability of encapsulated pigment from self-emulsifiable microemulsion in egg yolk pigmentation trial
Monday, July 3, 2023
Yolk color is one of the important factors for the customer's acceptance of poultry eggs. Since birds are unable to synthesize carotenoids biologically, carotenoid pigments are widely used to supplement layer feed for yolk color enhancement. Marigolds and paprika oleoresins are usually the sources of carotenoids, a ...

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Trouw Nutrition and Selko Share Insights on Managing Grain Quality in 2022
Friday, June 3, 2022
As grain markets experience sustained disruptions, Selko, the feed additive brand of Trouw Nutrition, Nutreco's livestock feed business, is summarizing insights from its recent webinar, "Optimize your grain investment: How to safeguard the economics and quality of grains.

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Nutrient utilization for sustainable beef production
Tuesday, April 6, 2021
In beef cattle production, requirement of feed to produce kg of beef is higher than other species, so considering more effective nutrient utilization is key for sustainability. Also, prevention of some disease is important. We introduce our unique micronutrients for utilization.

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Zinc oxide variation raises questions of reliability, prompts alternatives for livestock
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Research presented by Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company, suggests the production process used to manufacture zinc oxide affects the essential trace mineral's variability and bioavailability in the animal.

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Roles of fibre fermentation in monogastric animals: 2. Training microbiome to enhance fermentation of the major cereal NSPs
Saturday, April 11, 2020
In the previous edition, benefits of increasing post-ileal fibre fermentation through supplementation of β-1,4-endo-xylanase were introduced suggesting a hypothesis that effective fibre fermentation needs adaptation of microbiota. In this issue, recent AB Vista research will be introduced to demonstrate the import ...

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Addressing a tumultuous 2020 from an animal nutrition perspective
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
Just late last year, there were signs that China's ASF situation was stabilising and that the disease was being effectively controlled. No one would expect that China would face a bigger challenge in January – COVID-19. The longer-term effects of COVID-19 on the feed and livestock industry globally are still being ...