[India]

High humidity reduces pellet cooler efficiency, making it hard to lower moisture to safe storage levels…… Pls share your experience

Sakthivel V P

[Bello Bashir]

Exactly

[Bello Bashir]

Thanks

[India]

Dry Mixing

Mixing of all dry ingredients (grains, protein meals, minerals, vitamins, additives) without any liquid addition.

Wet Mixing

Mixing of dry feed ingredients with liquid additions such as oils, fats, water etc

Dry mixing = Nutrient accuracy, balance, and consistency.

Wet mixing = Feed quality, palatability, and processing efficiency.

Together, they ensure:

✅ Uniform nutrient delivery

✅ Safe and effective use of additives

✅ High pellet quality

Sakthivel V P

• This reply was modified 5 months ago by  India.

[Bello Bashir]

What is the percentage of Crude protein in soya

[Bello Bashir]

Why is broilers always on vaccines

[Bello Bashir]

To calculate crude protein, you first perform a Kjeldahl analysis or a similar method to measure the nitrogen content in a feed sample, then multiply the nitrogen percentage by 6.25 (N x 6.25) to get the crude protein value, as protein typically contains about 16% nitrogen.

[Md]

What is bulls?

[Md]

Write down the farm security procedures?

[Md]

How to develop product lebelling?

[Jeffrey]

In nutrition, NDF usually refers to “neutral detergent fiber”, which one of the fibrous components obtain by the Van Soest fiber method along with acid detergent fiber (ADF), and acid detergent lignin.

[Jeffrey]

There are NO substitutes for a multi-vitamin supplement. All vitamins have very well-defined chemical structures and there are no substitutes. Certain compounds can be precursors of vitamins like in the case of beta-carotene that is a well-known precursor of Vitamin A. However, a complete and balanced multi-vitamin supplement for poultry cannot be replaced with any herbal supplement.

[Jeffrey]

Vaccination is a process by which antigens are given to animals to induce an immune response that is robust enough to create immunological memory. Therefore, when vaccinated animals encounter the disease, they will react quickly and swiftly to eliminate the pathogen with less negative effects to productive performance compared to unvaccinated animals. It is important to remember that vaccination will likely cause a slight and temporary reduction in growth performance of animals. However, this transient reduction in productive performance is well worth it because it is minimal compared to the devastating consequences of a disease outbreak in the farm. Similarly, the quick and enhance immune response that animals will have when encountering the pathogen for which were vaccinated will likely result in another slight reduction on productive performance that is minimal compared to the clinical manifestation of the disease of unvaccinated animals. For example, a vaccine my prevent the outbreak of a disease that causes high mortality and instead growth performance may be slightly reduced for a couple of day. In this case, it is better to have a reduced performance event than a high mortality event in the poultry house.

[India]

Nice observations

[Dr.S.Sridhar]

In SDS, broilers experience sudden bursts of activity or stress, resulting in an oxygen shortage in cardiac/skeletal muscles. Without sufficient ATP, cells rely heavily on <strong data-start=”785″ data-end=”809″>anaerobic glycolysis, producing large amounts of <strong data-start=”838″ data-end=”849″>lactate, which can lead to lactic acidosis. Production of lactate rather than pyruvate, due to anoxia, leads to acidosis. By maintaining ATP levels through the creatine-PCr shuttle, GAA supplementation <strong data-start=”956″ data-end=”1000″>reduces reliance on anaerobic glycolysis, lowering lactate accumulation.

The general GAA recommended dose is 0.6 kg per ton for broiler, 1.2 kg per ton for breeder.

Many authors have reported that increasing GAA will have a negative impact on growth

Article Reference: https://doi.org/10.3389/fanim.2022.972868

However, there was a reduced average daily feed intake in birds fed with 0.6 and 1.8 g/kg GAA than the birds fed with 1.2 g/kg GAA, suggesting dietary GAA’s effect on feed efficiency might also depend on the dosage in broilers (Mohebbifar et al., 2019). Optimum GAA supplementation to enhance growth performance and FCR seems to range from 0.6 – 1.2 g/kg in broilers (Lemme et al., 2007a), while 0.6 g/kg GAA is suggested to be the minimum dose for improving performance (He et al., 2019). Moreover, according to the European Food Safety Authority (2009; 2022), 0.6 – 0.8 g/kg of GAA may be considered a safe concentration as a feed additive to enhance growth performance in broilers. However, it should be noted that some studies have reported that GAA is not effective as a supplement on growth performance (Lemme et al., 2007a; Mousavi et al., 2013; Abudabos et al., 2014; Tossenberger et al., 2016). For example, GAA (0.8 g/kg) inclusion in plant-based diets increased the body weight and breast muscle percentage of one-week-old broiler chickens but did not improve the growth performance and FCR compared to the control group during the period from 1 to 42 days of age (Esser et al., 2018). According to Majdeddin et al. (2018), GAA supplementation in broiler diets with different nutrient densities, did not affect performance during growing phase and reduced average daily feed intake and FCR at finishing period. These differences may be due to GAA dosage, experiment duration, initial body weight, nutrient composition of the diet, or species variation. With respect to feed intake, these concentrations of GAA supplementation generally do not affect feed intake in broilers in any phase, even when live performance is enhanced (Córdova-Noboa et al., 2018a). However, very high GAA supplementation (6 g/kg) leads to reduced feed intake in broilers, suggesting that the effect is akin to an overdose of amino acids, which also reduce feed intake at very high doses (Tossenberger et al., 2016). For example, broiler chickens’ growth response was deteriorated by high amounts of GAA (2.25 g/kg) (Faraji et al., 2019). However, adding coenzyme Q10, taurine, or a combination of the two in broiler diets significantly improved these responses (Faraji et al., 2019). Notably, excess GAA significantly enhances plasma and hepatic creatine concentration in broilers (Tossenberger et al., 2016; Córdova-Noboa et al., 2018a). This newly synthesised creatine can downregulate endogenous GAA synthesis by inhibiting AGAT activity, which may help prevent GAA accumulation (Tossenberger et al., 2016).

Reason may be due to, the enzymatic conversion
of GAA to creatine, which requires methyl groups primarily supplied by <strong data-start=”808″ data-end=”838″>S-adenosylmethionine (SAM),
derived from methionine and choline. Excessive GAA intake can <strong data-start=”904″ data-end=”935″>deplete these methyl donors,
disrupting other methylation-dependent processes vital for growth and
metabolism. So, GAA has a dose-dependent response, but SDS may require a high
GAA dose, which can cause a negative impact due to methyl donor depletion.