Maintaining optimal immune response in birds has become a major challenge in modern poultry production. As nutrition is a major cost in animal and poultry nutrition, maintaining optimal health via this route is desirable. It is well known that antiox...

01 oct 2002

Blending essential oils should be regarded as one of the tools available to animal nutritionists in formulating diets for poultry. Further research is continuing to develop our understanding of their real potential.

01 jun 2002

Many studies have been made on feeding supplements that contain plant extracts. Although their application in pig diets is an area of rapid development, research at the University of Leeds is being done to find the effects of some supplements on pre...

01 jun 2002

Astaxanthin is a naturally occurring carotenoid that pigments salmon, trout and other forms of seafood. Astaxanthin is routinely added in aquaculture diets to enhance natural pigmentation. Because of its unique bioactive properties, new promising us...

01 dec 2001

Phytomolecules added to feed may not produce their effects on growth and productivity via the same mode of action as once thought. Research has allowed us to revise our thinking, and to take a more integrated approach to the use of plant extracts, c...

01 dec 2001

At the Dutch Animal Research Centre in Lelystad an investigation on the benefits of plant extracts in animal diets was set up in 1998, triggered by the expected ban on antibiotic growth promoters. Some interesting results were found by the research ...

01 nov 2001

A nature identical "appetising agent" makes no claims to enhance digestion, or to affect the intestinal microflora. Despite this, it still manages to help improve performance, and yet does not need to be registered in the same way as a "classical" fe...

01 feb 2001