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Feed additives are added to livestock feed for farm animals that require extra nutrients, such as vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids and minerals to grow at a healthy rate. Find the latest articles, news and analysis on animal feed additives from the editors of Feed International and Feed Management magazines to optimize food production animals’ diets.

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Nutriad discusses additive solutions at Aquafeed Horizons

April 19, 2018

Nutriad, pioneer in species specific feed additive solutions for aquaculture, was one of the proud sponsors of the 11th Aquafeed Horizons ASIA 2018 (Advances in Aquafeed Processing & Formulation Workshop) that took place in Bangkok recently.

vitamins in animal feed

Repair work completed on BASF citral plant

Fire damaged facility in October, causing shortage of vitamins A and E

April 17, 2018

BASF said it has completed the extensive repair work at its citral plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, after a fire damaged it in October 2017.

Fed with locally grown ingredients: trend, or strategy?

Is feeding animals with locally grown ingredients a new marketing trend, or a way to bypass globalization?

April 17, 2018

Ioannis Mavromichalis

Today, there is a growing awareness that producing your own protein crops is just not enough.

Feed formulation software

Livestock feed formulation: Keep the whole picture in mind

Quite often an animal feed formula is the combined effort of many professionals, without anyone having the whole picture in mind.

April 10, 2018

Ioannis Mavromichalis

Quite often I have to review a formula (or two) that needs updating. I always ask the three “W” of why, who and when as I need to know the background of the initial formula design or concept.

no antibiotics ever chicken

6 no-antibiotics-ever broiler production nutrition tips

When no antibiotics are used, nutrition must be redesigned for a more vulnerable gut system.

April 5, 2018

Ioannis Mavromichalis

When faced with the prospect of no-antibiotics-ever production methods, one would be excused to ask: What happens if birds get sick after all?

Immunity

Animal feed's role in improving immune response

In the fight against antibiotic resistance, a better understanding of the link between feed and immunity can improve production efficiencies.

April 5, 2018

Animal feed assists immunity mechanisms in livestock and plays several roles in animal health maintenance.

Feed efficiency

Improve broiler feed efficiency with antioxidative capacity

In antibiotic-free production, aim for improving broilers’ anti-oxidative capacity to improve feed efficiency.

April 5, 2018

Gwendolyn Jones

How much can FCR be influenced by antioxidative capacity in broilers?

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Bacteriophage

Bacteriophages may offer antibiotic alternative for feed

Virus technology has the potential to provide an antibiotic alternative in livestock production while reducing pathogen contamination in human food.

April 5, 2018

As agriculture looks to reduce antibiotic use, bacteriophages could be used to prevent and treat bacterial infections in animals and humans.

antioxidants in animal nutrition

A modern solution to expensive vitamins A, E

Removing or just reducing expensive vitamins is nothing but a panicked reaction, and is rather ineffective now that we have modern solutions.

April 5, 2018

Ioannis Mavromichalis

All animal feed ingredients are bound, from time to time, to become so expensive that their participation in formulas is questioned.

Evonik to stop production of L-threonine in Kaba, Hungary

ThreAMINO will continue to be produced at other locations

April 3, 2018

Evonik said it will stop amino acid production at its site in Kaba, Hungary, by the end of April.

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