Feed Additives

Understanding Feed Additives in Animal Feeds

Feed additives are special ingredients added to animal feeds to improve their quality, nutrition, digestion, and overall performance. They help livestock and poultry make better use of nutrients, support healthy growth, immunity, gut health, feed efficiency, and productivity. Feed additives are important because they help animals get more benefits from the feed they eat, leading to healthier animals, better production, and more efficient farming.

Quality

Feed additives help improve the quality of animal feed by keeping nutrients stable, improving feed texture, and helping maintain freshness. Good-quality feed is easier for animals to consume and provides consistent nutrition.

Benefits: better feed quality, improved feed intake, and more consistent animal performance.

Nutrition

Feed additives provide or support important nutrients such as vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and energy that animals need for growth and production. They help complete the nutritional value of the feed and ensure animals receive the nutrients they need.

Benefits: healthier growth, stronger immunity, and better meat, milk, or egg production.

Digestion

Feed additives can support healthy digestion and nutrient absorption, helping animals break down and use the nutrients in their feed more effectively. Some additives support gut health and help maintain a balanced digestive system.

Benefits: better nutrient utilization, improved feed efficiency, and healthier gut function.

Overall Performance

Feed additives help animals make better use of their feed, supporting growth, health, productivity, and resistance to stress. When animals receive proper nutrition and digest their feed efficiently, they can perform better throughout their production cycle.

Benefits: improved growth, better feed conversion, increased productivity, and healthier livestock.

Essential Feed Additives from VetNext

Ascoherb

Ascoherb is a Vitamin C-based feed additive with antioxidant support that helps animals cope with stress, especially during hot weather, handling, transport, and other challenging conditions. It supports the immune system and helps protect cells from oxidative stress.

Benefits: better stress management, stronger immunity, improved recovery, and support for healthy production.

Immutas Plus & Immutas WS

Immutas Plus and Immutas WS are immunity-supporting feed additives designed to help strengthen the animal’s natural defenses. They can be especially useful during periods of stress and vaccination, helping animals maintain better health and resilience.

Benefits: stronger immunity, better response to vaccination, improved stress resistance, and healthier livestock and poultry.

Methotas

Methotas provides methionine, an essential amino acid needed for proper growth, tissue development, and protein production. It helps animals use dietary protein more efficiently and supports important body functions.

Benefits: improved growth, better feed efficiency, healthy muscle development, and improved production performance.

Lysintas

Lysintas provides lysine, an essential amino acid that animals cannot produce in sufficient amounts on their own. It plays an important role in protein formation, muscle growth, and overall development.

Benefits: better growth, improved protein utilization, efficient feed use, and stronger production performance.

Maduracox / Diclacox

Maduracox and Diclacox are coccidiosis-control feed additives that help protect poultry from the harmful effects of coccidia. Managing coccidiosis is important because the disease can affect the digestive tract, reduce nutrient absorption, and negatively impact growth and performance.

Benefits: better gut health, improved growth, better feed efficiency, and reduced production losses associated with coccidiosis.

Contratox

Contratox is a mycotoxin-control and gut-support feed additive designed to help reduce the impact of harmful mycotoxins in feed while supporting digestive health. This is important because contaminated feed can negatively affect animal health, nutrient use, and performance.

Benefits: better feed safety, improved gut condition, better nutrient utilization, and more consistent animal performance.

Liverolin Forte

Liverolin Forte supports healthy liver function, which is important because the liver plays a major role in metabolism, nutrient processing, and detoxification. Supporting the liver can help animals maintain normal body functions, especially during periods of nutritional or environmental stress.

Benefits: better metabolism, improved nutrient utilization, liver support, and healthier overall performance.

B4H Choline

B4H Choline provides choline, an important nutrient involved in fat metabolism, cell structure, and normal liver function. It helps animals properly use and transport fats and supports healthy growth and production.

Benefits: improved fat metabolism, liver support, better growth, and improved production efficiency.

7 Zymes

7 Zymes is an enzyme-based feed additive that helps improve the breakdown and utilization of nutrients in animal feed. By helping animals digest feed components more effectively, enzymes can make more nutrients available for absorption.

Benefits: better digestion, improved nutrient utilization, better feed efficiency, and more consistent growth.

Beef Tallow (on going registration)

Beef Tallow is a high-energy feed ingredient that provides concentrated energy to animal diets. Adding a suitable fat source can help increase the energy density of feed while also supporting the efficient use of other nutrients.

Benefits: additional dietary energy, improved feed efficiency, support for growth, and better energy supply.

Yeaferm (on going registration)

Yeaferm is a yeast-based feed additive that supports digestive and gut health. Yeast products can help maintain a healthy digestive environment and support the animal’s ability to make better use of its feed.

Benefits: improved gut health, better digestion, improved nutrient utilization, and healthier animal performance.

Yeasel (on going registration)

Yeasel is a selenium-enriched yeast feed additive that provides selenium in an organic form. Selenium is an important nutrient involved in antioxidant protection, immune function, growth, and reproductive health.

Benefits: antioxidant support, stronger immunity, improved reproductive performance, and support for meat and egg quality.

Annzyme (Phytase) (on going registration)

Annzyme is a phytase enzyme that helps break down phytate in plant-based feed ingredients, making phosphorus and other bound nutrients more available to animals. This can improve nutrient utilization and help reduce the amount of phosphorus lost through manure.

Benefits: better phosphorus absorption, improved nutrient utilization, better feed efficiency, and more efficient feed formulation.

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