Animal nutrition can also benefit the human population, simply by enriching feed with the necessary nutrients. There is a real need in many countries to increase our selenium intake and with the controversy surrounding cholesterol in eggs at last re...

09 nov 2006

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 a...

01 aug 2003

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 huma...

01 feb 2003

Since the European ban of most traditional antimicrobials and growth promoters in animal feed, many alternatives have been discovered, tested and commercialised. Safe, innovative and powerful plant extracts can fit perfectly into today's animal husba...

01 dec 2002

When environmental pollution becomes a restricting factor in livestock nutrition, there is a danger of over-compensating. In poultry production, this could have damaging effects on welfare. There is thus a need to re-assess phosphorus requirements in ...

01 aug 2002

Carotenoids are important in pigmentation effects and for increasing immune responses and fertility, but the mere presence of carotenoids does not guarantee any desired index if the various factors affecting pigmentation are neglected.

01 jun 2001