Feb 21
Trace minerals are indispensable components in poultry diets. Minerals like Calcium, Phosphorus, and Manganese play a major role in growth, bone development of birds, whereas Copper and Zinc are responsible for maintaining the feather color. Minerals have a key role in enzyme structure like Catalase(Fe), carbonic anhydrous(Zn), SOD(Cu,Zn,Mn) and GSH(Se). …READ MORE
Sep 10
Water is the most important nutrient for the overall health and performance of birds.Water intake of poultry is approximately twice that of the intake of feeds. During its lifetime, a five-pound broiler will consume about 18 pounds of water, compared to approximately 10 pounds of feed (Lacy, 2002). A key …READ MORE
Aug 13
Currently, the animal feeding practice includes prophylactic approaches for supporting intestinal health and immunity, to reduce the incidences of dysbiosis, diseases, and the need for antimicrobial medication. The antibiotics kill the pathogen or restrict their multiplication to control the infection from advancing in the host. As per the report of …READ MORE
Jul 18
Early nutrition plays an important role in the chick’s life cycle. But in reality early feeding is not commonly practised due to multiple reasons like delay in removing of chick from incubator until the maximum number of eggs hatched from the hatching incubator, transit time from hatchery to the …READ MORE
Feb 27
There’s a problem with most of the poultry feed on the market today; it lacks adequate nutrition to provide flocks with a well-rounded diet. In fact, certain poultry feed ingredients can actually block the ability of many birds to properly absorb nutrients. Raw soybeans, for example, can inhibit pancreatic trypsin …READ MORE
