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Understanding Heat Stress in Dairy to alleviate it

"Heat stress is caused by several weather factors: temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, air movement, and precipitation. Due to climate change and the selection of high-producing animals, dairy cows are more confronted with high temperatures while getting more sensitive to heat stress, compromising their performance. Here is an insight…

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Full natural phytogenic support for intestinal resilience in poultry

As defined by the World Organisation for Animal Health, ‘an animal is in a good state of welfare if it is healthy, comfortable, well-nourished, safe, able to express innate behaviour, and not suffering from unpleasant states such as pain, fear, and distress’. The poultry industry struggles with significant problems previously controlled by…

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Managing challenging times in the pig sector worldwide

Pork producers worldwide are facing challenges: they still must cope with African swine fever (ASF), declining hog prices, rising raw materials costs, and, as a result, decreasing profits. At the global level, pig prices are falling tremendously. In October 2021, the FAO Meat Price Index was down 0.7% from its Septem...

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Phytogenics: Natural additives to improve performance in dairy

Meeting consumers' expectations for sustainable agriculture while providing animal-derived products, such as milk, to feed the growing global population has become a new challenge for the industry. These two objectives seem somewhat challenging to conciliate. Yet, there are ways to use natural...

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Protein efficiency and ammonia excretion in dairy cows

Besides energy and nutrients, sufficient nitrogen in ruminants or essential amino acids in non-ruminants are vital for high protein synthesis in animals. N-excess is mainly excreted via the urine and contributes to inefficient N-use, higher feed costs, and , and environmental problems. Agriculture and livestock represent 90-95% and 50% of the…

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Tackle the problem at the root: Emission reduction in poultry by PFA´S

As the global population and its prosperity are steadily rising, the animal protein demand will further increase in the near future, with poultry being under the most consumed meat sources worldwide. Though this substantial rise in meat consumption is challenged, meat production in in tensive farming ...

 

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Phytogenics reduce the need for antibiotics

Reducing antibiotics use in livestock production has become a necessity to tackle antimicrobial resistance and also a public health matter. In ruminants, a fair share of the antibiotics used as treatments is directed to calves. Another regular use of antibiotics, although not considered as therapeutics, is to improve performance by including…

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Antibiotic-free swine production, is it possible?

In the 1940s, antibiotics used as a therapeutic agent for humans became common. Around the same period, sick farm animals were treated with antibiotics, and besides the curative action, a secondary effect emerged – antibiotics could prevent disease and promote growth. Since then and...

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Improving intestinal resilience with phytogenics

The rising global human population and improving human welfare standards increase demand for animal proteins. The intestine in animals, constitutes the centre of health, which must be taken care of. Several trials have shown that the inclusion of phytogenic feed additives in feed enhances the performance of broilers. Alongside improved performance,…

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