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Formulation & Nutrition

Tips for marketing animal nutrition

Modern marketing goes beyond advertisement; it includes offering valuable information to your customers to highlight your expertise as you help them improve their profitability.

April 3, 2013

Animal Nutrition

Alternative animal feed protein sources: faba beans, lentils

Faba beans (Vicia faba) is a legume related to the garden beans (those beans consumed by humans). There are two major types of faba beans: those from white-flower varieties and those from colored-flower varieties.

March 26, 2013

Animal Nutrition Views

New questions about using enzymes in pig, poultry feed

Enzymes are being used with increasingfrequency in pig and poultry feed, but questions regarding their combined effects remain largelywithout concrete answers.

March 21, 2013

Swine

Lactose alternatives in piglet diets

Although weaned pigs prefer lactose over starch, they can use other forms of simple sugars instead of pure lactose or lactose from milk products.

February 21, 2013

Feed Additives

Feeding pigs, poultry diets rich in barley

High-fiber concentration in barley limits its use in most pig and poultry diets, except in diets designed to control diarrheas in young animals. Barley contains less energy than maize and wheat, and it is intermediate in protein.

February 18, 2013

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Piglet feeds in pellet or meal?

With animal feed costs continuing to climb, everyone is looking for corners to cut and manufacturing is not immune to this exercise! Pelleting certainly costs more than proving the feed in its natural meal form.

January 28, 2013

Animal Feed Manufacturing

Rapeseed meal in pig, poultry feeds

Rapeseed meal is becoming for Europe what DDGS has become for the United States: an unavoidable byproduct of the biofuel industry that must be recycled through animal feed. And, like DDGS, rapeseed meal is not without its own unique challenges that with proper control can reduce its attractiveness as a replacement of soybean meal.

January 25, 2013

Animal Nutrition Views

Replacing livestock antibiotics in feed

Industry discussions on effectively replacing livestock antibiotics are never ending as new feed additives keep appearing in the animal agribusiness market. Now that high animal feed prices are making it difficult to profitably raise pigs and poultry, many farmers are looking for ways to remove additives that do not have a strong performance record.

December 3, 2012

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Feeding pigs high levels of DDGS

The benefits and challenges of feeding pigs dried distiller's grains with solubles, DDGS, are well known: Attractive pricing versus the general issues with maize (nutrient variability, mycotoxins, soft carcass fat, unbalanced protein). Yet, with careful planning and smart diet formulation, it is possible to use high levels of DDGS in diets for all classes of pigs. In some cases, up to 40 percent has been added to pig diets.

November 26, 2012

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Does zinc oxide kill bacteria?

Yes, zinc oxide will improve growth performance and reduce diarrhea in piglets (when fed at pharmacological levels), but it remains unclear whether this is an effect of reduced total bacterial load, stabilized gut microflora, enhanced intestinal integrity and immunity, or improved enzymatic secretion and activity; to name but a few of the proposed modes of action!

October 29, 2012

Feed Additives

Reconsidering betaine in poultry feed from a cost perspective

Betaine, a nutrient in broiler nutrition was mainly used inpoultry feed, but now is available as betaine hydrochloride, which issynthetically produced.

September 27, 2012

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White Papers from the Archives of Novus International

White Papers from the Archives of Novus International true Here's a collection of White Papers from the archives of Novus International Early Nutrition of Zinc and Copper in Chicks and Poults Intestinal Physiology and Disease in Neonatal

November 1, 2010