Salmonella Pullorum, causing pullorum disease, and Salmonella Gallinarum, causing fowl typhoid, are two major salmonellosis diseases that can seriously impact poultry flock health...
Reducing gut inflammation, improving villi structure and increasing survival after vibrio harveyi disease challenge....
Animal welfare should always be first, hence the importance of in vitro modelling to reduce animal trials....
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The impact of heat stress on sows and piglets can have severe consequences for stock health, welfare, reproductive performance, and profitability....
Current consumer preference trends and increasing government regulation continue to drive interest in reduced antibiotic use and increased use of antibiotic alternatives, such as live yeast probiotics and yeast extracts like ActiSaf® HR+ and NucleoSaf® 600....
Crop production, harvest and storage improvements have reduced the amount and number of mycotoxins in feed grains. Even with these improvements, data suggests that mycotoxins remain a significant problem for livestock producers....
Current consumer preference trends and increasing government regulation continue to drive interest in reduced antibiotic use and increased use of antibiotic alternatives, such as yeast probiotics. ...
Feeding live yeast probiotics to livestock has been a beneficial practice for centuries. Specifically, feeding them to pigs has demonstrated performance and health improvements....
The main roles of colostrum are to provide energy, passive and active defenses and to promote the development of the baby pig’s organs. Newborn baby pigs are sterile in utero with no immunity transfer from the placenta....
Heat stress occurs when a pig is unable to maintain a comfortable body temperature due to high environmental heat and humidity. This becomes especially critical in larger pigs like sows who have a high metabolic rate and limited ability to cool themselves. ...
More than 85-90% of the forage’s fiber could be degraded in a well working rumen. The forage fiber characteristics represent the key point to improve feed efficiency, considering their effects on diet digestibility, dry matter intake and ruminal fermentation pattern control....