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Animal Nutrition Views: Page 28
Animal Nutrition Views
Talk to a geneticist before you find a nutritionist
A larger animal has larger maintenance needs that need to be taken into account when calculating efficiency.
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Animal Nutrition Views
Are you still fighting for the wrong cause?
Miracles happen, people change. But these two things have yet to materialize in the animal nutrition business in which I have been engaged in for the past 30 years, under any and all roles I have played. I write this blog having specific people in my mind, and they are not coming from just one company or even one continent, but these comments apply to all of us.
Animal Nutrition Views
First comes nutrition, then come additives
Nothing is wrong with feed additives. In fact, in the right hands, they can be used with tremendous efficiency, like proper tools for the right job. And, this is what additives are: tools for specific jobs, either to solve a problem or enhance a function.
Animal Nutrition Views
The perils of making your own feeds
Now that we have analyzed the major issue of trusting others to control 60 percent of your costs, we can discuss the perils of doing so yourself.
Animal Nutrition Views
The perils of not making your own feed
What are the perils of allowing others to control what your animals eat daily?
Animal Nutrition Views
6 major nutrition problems in dairy cows
No matter the region, production system or breed, dairy cattle appear to suffer from six very common problems related to the intensive conditions under which they are raised and kept throughout their productive lives.
Animal Nutrition Views
Global broiler hybrids require local feeds
Most producers use the generic dietary specifications provided generously by genetic houses, but these are not the last word on the subject.
Animal Nutrition Views
There is more than one way to reduce pig feed cost
Reduced feed cost remains the major weapon pig producers have against decreasing hog prices.
Animal Nutrition Views
Now is the time to unload animal feed formulas
Additives, as they have emerged in the animal nutrition industry, continue to offer numerous advantages in terms of animal and feed performance.
Animal Nutrition Views
Milk-fed calves: Bottle or bucket?
By avoiding large meal portions, and frequent meals, without letting the calves go hungry between meals (by offering free access to a high-quality starter dry feed), bucket feeding can be as successful as bottle feeding.
Animal Nutrition Views
Molasses: Undervalued feed ingredient with big potential
Molasses, from beets or cane, contains around 50 percent simple sugars (sucrose, glucose and fructose). This fact alone gives it a tremendous value in diets for most farmed animals.
Animal Nutrition Views
Yeast in dairy feeds: Highly wanted dead and alive
Despite the plethora of yeast products, in all of the above mentioned forms, one is hard pressed to find evidence about the efficacy of dried versus live yeast products.
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