Can Feed Additives Have An Effect?

Feed additives refer to small or trace substances added in the process of feed production, processing, and use. The amount of feed is small but the effect is significant. Feed additives are inevitable raw materials used in the modern feed industry. They have obvious effects on strengthening the nutritional value of basic feeds, improving animal production performance, ensuring animal health, saving feed costs, and improving the quality of livestock products. This is the definition of feed additives by the Ministry of Agriculture. Obviously, it plays a very important role in our breeding process.

Why add feed additives?

In general feed, it can basically meet the nutrients needed by animals in growth, reproduction, and production. However, if you want to obtain higher production benefits, the nutrients in the feed may be insufficient and additional additions are necessary, such as ：Improve the sow’s litter size, birth weight, speed up the sow production process, increase the quality and quantity of milk, etc., increase the weight of the piglet weaning litter, increase the growth rate, reduce the feed-to-meat ratio, improve the meat quality and flavor, etc. Single feed nutrition is not enough, it must be added additionally.

In general feed, there are some functions that antibiotics do not have, and they may even replace antibiotics in certain aspects, such as mold release agents, substances that remove toxins from sows, etc., improve immunity, and improve intestinal reduction Diarrhea, etc. Inhibit the reproduction of harmful bacteria and keep the intestinal flora normal.

Supplement nutrition. In the pig production process, due to various reasons, part of the nutrients in the feed may be lost, or the nutrition of the feed at a special stage is insufficient, etc., which cannot meet the growth or production needs, such as feed Part of the vitamins in it will be oxidized during long-term storage in summer; when the number of sows and fetuses is relatively large, the protein, energy, vitamins, and minerals needed are not enough and need to be added.

Optimize the ecological environment. In the process of animal intestinal metabolism, the prebiotics and enzyme preparations in feed additives decompose crude protein, phytase, and anti-nutritional factors that are not easily absorbed by animals, effectively cutting off the source of ammonia and odor It effectively reduces the concentration of harmful gases in animal feces, improves the breeding environment, reduces the harm of ammonia to the human body, and prevents the occurrence of respiratory and intestinal diseases of livestock and poultry.

If you want to better breed animals, feed additives are essential substances.

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