ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2025 41 tions can improve feed conversion ratios, leading to higher productivity and a reduction in feed costs. • Reducing environmental impact: Certain feed materials help in reducing noxious gas emissions, thus minimizing the environmental footprint of poultry farming. Feed additives and feed materials help address several key challenges in the poultry industry, including: • Feed cost and efficiency: They can make feed use more efficient and cost-effective. • Nutrient optimization: They help in better utilization of nutrients, reducing waste and improving overall feed efficiency. • Animal health: Feed products can support immune responses, helping natural defenses against disease. Feed materials like postbiotics can be part of good farm practices that help support animal health. By integrating feed additives and feed materials into their nutrition strategies, poultry producers can support flock health, achieve higher productivity, and align with more sustainable farming practices. SUPERCHARGED INGREDIENTS FOR SUPERCHARGED RESULTS Two examples of how feed solutions can play a winning role in a poultry production’s success include: Supporting Performance and Immunity: Certain feed additives and feed materials like postbiotics work in the gastrointestinal tract, helping with consistency and stability in flock performance. This is important because the gut microbiome plays a key role in supporting animal performance. In well-performing birds, the gut microbiome has a higher abundance of lactic acid producers (beneficial bacteria) in early life, which are later replaced by butyrate producers. This pattern makes the gut microbiome more resilient to challenges and helps with health and performance. The right combination of ingredients speeds up this process of microbiome maturation, supporting beneficial bacteria and managing undesirable ones, contributing to better performance. Reducing Feed Costs: Developed by Cargill, Proviox™50* is designed to reduce oxidative stress and support animals throughout their lifecycle, especially during challenging production phases. This is a unique formulation of high-quality plant polyphenols that not only supports the scavenging of free radicals (a cause of oxidative stress), but also helps regenerate vitamin E in the body, leading to a reduction in formulation costs while maintaining performance. To the readers, if you are interested in learning more about the different feed solutions developed by Cargill MHS, and the range of support tools that are available, please visit the Cargill micronutrition page.
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