Nutrient Requirements - Pigs

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Dietary fibre, the missing nutrient in pig production

Modern pig production faces two main challenges: maintaining health and securing consistently high performance. These two challenges sometimes contradict each other, but the balance of a healthy pig that is performing at its optimum level is often to be consolidated in the gut. Improving gut health can be assisted with the use of dietary fibre.
Inulin, derived from chicory roots, encourages the growth of propionic acid producing organisms and also promotes the... read more »

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Optimising nutrient density in a volatile market

The profitability of broiler production, expressed in its simplest form, is the value of the end product minus the input costs to produce that product. Of the input costs, feed is the major component. The ultimate challenge is to reduce input cost to a minimum, without compromising biological performance and profitability. A modelling approach can help to better calculate optimum diets. read more >

Optimal liver support for a healthy cow during transition

During early lactation, most dairy cows do not consume enough feed to maintain high demands for milk production.This period of negative energy balance often leads to the development of fatty livers – a condition that can be minimised by adding liver stimulating nutrients to the cow’s diet, explains Sander Abrahamse, product manager ruminants at Provimi. read more >

'Much is still unclear in goat nutrition'

Small ruminants form a special group within the ruminant section. In January, the French association of animal nutritionists Aftaa, organised a special conference on goat nutrition. With an attendance of 71 delegates the seminar was a great success, showing the need for extensive nutritional information among goat farmers. read more >

Lactoferrin supplementation for claves (part 2)

In the first part of this two part series on lactoferrin in calf diets we look at the theoretical background of the ingredient and its benefits for the animal. In this article, Johan Lemmen explains three trials in which lactoferrin was added to calf milk replacers. read more >

Rapeseed meal in animal diets

In the past few years, rapeseed cultivation has increased dramatically in the European Union, especially in countries like Germany, where renewable sources of energy are becoming important to national interests. Rapeseed oil has been proved to be one of the best sources for biodiesel, and an increasing amount of rapeseed meal has raised the level of interest among nutritionists and producers alike. In general, rapeseed is considered a good replacement, if only partially, for soybean meal in most animal diets. read more >
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