Poultry Dairy Feed

Trouw Nutrition’s mission is “Feeding the Future” – Dr. S. Shekhar

Q: Dr. Saurabh, can you briefly tell us about Trouw Nutrition and yourself. Dr. Saurabh: Trouw Nutrition, a Nutreco company, is a global leader in animal nutrition that has been supporting farmers, integrators and the feed industry for 90 years with beginnings in 1931. We are a part of SHV, a family owned company that had sales of €19.2 billion in 2019. SHV owns a group of companies that deal in energy, retail, heavy engineering,…

Why Mycotoxins Matter in Broiler Production

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Why Mycotoxins Matter in Broiler Production The negative impacts of mycotoxins in poultry can be far-reaching, decreasing gastrointestinal integrity, immunity and performance in broilers and resulting in economic losses.Given the high rates of mycotoxin in poultry feed, a mycotoxin risk management strategy is needed to protect fattening animals in all phases in order to reduce the challenges in the animal and ensure profitability of production. byLorran BaeumleGabardo Poultry producers frequently ask: What is the real impact of mycotoxins on the broiler’s productivity? What sounds like an easy question is, in the…

Poultry housing

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Automation in Poultry Farming Ninad Bhatt, Rajneesh, Shwetambri Jamwal National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal, Haryana Introduction In recent years, most poultry operation are intensive type houses with environment controlled houses, in which inside conditions are maintained as near as to the bird’s optimum requirements. The optimum temperature is 24oC with the relative humidity of 50 to 60%. A closed building with no windows, longitudinal preferably east to west, with big exhaust fans on west side while evaporative cooling pads on east side along with automatic feeding and drinking systems inside…

Management of Specific Pathogen Free Flocks

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NINAD BHATT PhD Research Scholar, LPM Division National Dairy Research Institute, India Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) animals are those which are free of specified micro-organism and parasites but not necessarily free of the ones which are not specified. An animal stock or strain derived by aseptic caesarean section (or sterile hatching of eggs) which are reared and continuously maintained with germfree techniques is referred to as SPF. SPF animals are also known as disease free animals, healthy animals, pathogen free animals, clean animals, caesarean derived animals. What is the need…

PHYTOGENICS

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Jan Dirk van der Klis and Ester Vinyeta, Delacon Biotechnik GmbH, Austria www.delacon.com When it comes to feed additives (plant extracts, enzymes, pro- and prebiotics, organic acids and many more), the livestock industry is inundated with numerous options, not only promoting performance of the animals and improving profitability, but also improving the quality of feed and of animal-derived products. In this context, phytogenic (plant derived) feed additives are predicted to have a promising future in animal nutrition due to their broad range of efficacies, and to their effects on sustainability…

DIFORMATES

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DIFORMATES A most suitable Replacement for Antibiotics Anant Deshpande* and Christian Lückstädt *ADDCON Asia Ltd. India Introduction Discovery of antibiotics is one of the greatest benefits to mankind. Millions of lives have been saved across the world ever since the use of antibiotics came into practice. Initially the use of antibiotics was restricted only to humans, until the practice of intensive farming came into existence in the 1950’S and their routine use in animals for prophylactic purposes began. In 1963, the emergence of the first resistant bacteria was described…