Various parts of the yeast cell have been demonstrated to have beneficial effects in livestock performance. Now a unique processing method that yields the cell wall and contents can be linked to specific pathogen control measures.

The research data is accumulating to explain why some carbohydrates are not just feed ingredients- they are effective feed additives, affecting specific metabolic functions. One in particular, appears not only to be able to prevent pathogens getting hold in the intestine, but can improve gut-associated immune function too.

Heat stress and age are common causes of reduced egg shell quality and incur large economic losses in the Indian poultry industry. A number of plants are known to contain high levels of metabolically active vitamin D3. Studies have shown that under adverse conditions, these can be useful in reducing the egg shell quality problems associated with age.

Heat stress and age are common causes of reduced egg shell quality and incur large economic losses in the Indian poultry industry. A number of plants are known to contain high levels of metabolically active vitamin D3. Studies have shown that under adverse conditions, these can be useful in reducing the egg shell quality problems associated with age.

How do you meet legislative and consumer demands whilst maximising health and productivity? Developing an effective solution requires that all available venues are examined and traditional approaches re-assessed. In Belgium, this has resulted in the concept of "Total Nutrition" being reformulated into "minimal nutrition". Adding the benefits of "nutricines" completes the package.

The application of fibres in diets for broilers, piglets and breeding sows is more about the physical properties of the fibre than any nutritional value they may have. Raw fibre concentrates maintain their most valuable properties whilst eliminating the problems caused by the additional components of tradition fibre sources – such as fermentable fibres and mycotoxin contamination.

The benefits of mannanoligosaccharides in diets for pigs and poultry are many-fold and appear more subtle as each new paper is published. Studies in broilers and turkeys have shown that the beneficial effects on intestinal morphology and humoral immunity may be behind the improved performance reported.

Two enzyme products used widely in the poultry industry to improve the digestibility of wheat- and maize-based diets have been found to have additional effects on the numbers of bacteria in the gut of broilers that can cause food poisoning in humans.