AB Vista™ is ABNA’s rapidly expanding international animal feed ingredients business. AB Vista™ offers the following yeast products in the UK and Ireland.

Biosaf Sc47™ is a heat-resistant live yeast concentrate that has been dried to give 10 billion yeast cells or colony forming units per gramme. It is widely used in many applications including high-yielding dairy cows, beef cattle, sheep, lambs and goats with additional uses in calves, sows, piglets, rabbits and horses.

Safmannan™ is a yeast cell wall product containing glucans and mannans. It is used in ruminant diets, aqua, poultry and pig feeds and helps to improve animal immunity as well as reduce intestinal microbial load.

AB Vista™, through Vistavet and Nutrition Services International, also provides a range of other products and services to the feed industry in the UK and Ireland.

The C&H Nutrition range of alternative performance enhancers includes a unique, natural plant-derived additive and access to a range of protected organic acid combinations, some including essential oils.

Based on the natural plant alkaloid sanguinarine, Sangrovit is a proven highly effective digestive enhancer for pig, poultry and ruminant diets, offering the opportunity to boost feed intake and conversion efficiency. Trials show it to be highly effective in increasing feed value.

The primary action of Sangrovit centres on its ability to protect essential amino acids such as tryptophan from enzymatic breakdown in the gut. This means more amino acids are available to the animal, improving protein availability and carcass quality. Furthermore, tryptophan is known to influence the physiological regulation of feed intake, resulting in enhanced appetite. Additional benefits include a positive effect on saliva secretion rate – which improves feed pre-digestion – and the promotion of enzyme secretion in the digestive tract to help improve digestibility and feed conversion ratio.

Sangrovit is an easy to handle, dust free, micro-granular product with a pleasant aroma. Pelleting, extrusion and expansion have no negative effect on its stability.

C&H Nutrition is also the sole GB distributor for the range of non-antibiotic, functional animal feed ingredients from Soda Feed Ingredients. The company’s unique encapsulation techniques improve digestion efficiency by allowing targeted nutrient release all the way down ruminant and monogastric digestive tracts. All products are also available in Ireland through C&H sister company Brown and Gillmer Limited based in Co. Cork.

Feed costs too high? Heat stress a problem? AGP-free nutrition a challenge?

These are just some of the challenges that Danisco’s Betafin feed betaine can help you solve.

To achieve lower feed costs, Betafin allows pig and poultry producers to reformulate the diet by removing all added choline chloride and some added methionine from the feed. Dietary energy levels can also be reduced without detriment to animal performance.

Under heat stress or disease conditions, Betafin is an osmolyte, which reduces dehydration. Trials have shown that Betafin improves gut structure, so improving nutrient absorption. This results in better and more uniform pig and poultry growth and feed conversion.

For increased breast meat in poultry or higher carcass lean yield in pigs, Betafin stimulates lean meat deposition. By helping the animal to maintain its water balance more efficiently, Betafin ensures more metabolic energy is made available to fuel lean growth.

Betafin, a natural feed supplement produced in a highly-purified form from sugar beet, provides pig and poultry producers with consistent animal performance thanks to its wide-ranging benefits.

Forum Products Ltd, 41-51 Brighton Road, Redhill , Surrey  RH1 6YS

Tel: 01737 773711    Fax: 01737 773116

Email: ANH@forumgroup.co.uk    Web: www.forum.co.uk

The need for alternative performance enhancers has long been the focus of Norel & Nature’s research activities; the two main contenders to replace antibiotic growth promoters – probiotics and organic acids – have been researched, developed and manufactured by Norel and Nature for nearly 20 and 30 years respectively.

We were only the 2nd company worldwide to produce volatile fatty acids: the GUSTOR range is based on specific combinations of organic acids and incorporate SODIUM BUTYRATE as a key ingredient. Continued investigations into more concentrated and odour-protected products to add to our range of slow-release, natural growth-promoters has led to the development of GUSTOR BP 70, targeting simultaneously the distal parts of the intestinal tract and exerting effective control on pathogens in both colon and caecum. This new presentation is one of several produced by Norel & Nature that masks the characteristic odour of the butyrate enabling easier application in feed mills which in turn allow higher flexibility in ration formulations.

GUSTOR is the only proven regenerator of intestinal microvilli; absorbed in the intestine and used both as an energy-yielding nutrient and in the metabolism of enterocytes as a trophic, restorative and invigorating element thereby increasing the absorption surface of the intestinal tract and maximizing the feed potential of the ingredients.

Several trials have shown that when GUSTOR is adequately combined with basic acidifiers the results in piglets and growers can be described as having a triple action: an acidifier + bacteriostatic /bactericide + growth promoter effect, as well as excellent compatibility and synergy with some commonly used antibiotics in countries where their use is still permitted.

Our probiotic range includes – living bacteria that is used with the intention of establishing a desirable environment for beneficial microflora to compete with deleterious bacteria within the small and large intestine. Through competitive inhibition and modification of intestinal pH, Fecinor increases the development of desirable health promoting microorganisms that improve weight gain and feed efficiency. To be effective, the microorganisms should be established as normal inhabitants of the intestinal tract of health animals and they must be acid and bile-tolerant to survive passage through the stomach to become established in the small intestine; Fecinor possesses these traits.

Fecinor’s agility in proliferation along with the capacity to fix it at the same epithelial receptors (loci) that pathogenic microorganisms need, promotes the presence of an intestinal ‘protective barrier’. This barrier improves the absorption capacity and enzyme production.

The high production of lactic acid produced by Fecinor reduces the pH at intestinal level mainly in the farthest intestinal portions when pathogenic proliferation can originate; besides this the intestinal acid pH assists the proliferation of lactic bacteria.

Fecinor (Enteroccocus faecium) requires important quantities of nutrients for growth that reduces the availability of easily fermentable nutrients needed for survival by the pathogens.

The high multiplication rate, barrier effect and lactic acid production are the most important mechanisms used by Fecinor to improve the intestinal comfort and act as competitive exclusion. Lactic acid production reduces the pH and promotes the secretion of endogenous enzymes e.g. the transformation of pepsinogen to pepsin, improving protein digestibility.

The lactic acid bacteria are also directly related to the secretion of pancreatic enzymes and are related to the energy metabolism of the intestinal flora; with reduced digestibility of the starch then there will be an increase of starch at caecal level that could be beneficial to the pathogenic microorganisms. When the starch level in the substrate is reduced the lactic bacteria acid are able to use other carbohydrates as an energy source (e.g. oligosaccharides) that the pathogenic populations do not metabolize.

One consequence of banning the antibiotic like growth promoters will be the increased use of medicated feeds and/or treatments. This will cause the elimination of an important part of the intestinal flora that will need rapid restoration.

The clear benefits of E. faecium Fecinor on the intestinal health in pigs and broilers can be assured by the fact that it has obtained definitive registry in the EU. Results of EU trials indicated that Fecinor is the way to improve the intestinal health in young animals, such as piglets or broilers, which have a very fast intestinal transit time, so they need probiotics that act swiftly against pathogens present in the small intestine.

E-mail: norfeed@norgroup.dk or office@norfeed.net

Stretton House • Burton on Trent • Staffordshire  DE13 0DW

Tel: +44 1283 511211

SCA Mill, Dalton Airfield Industrial Estate, THIRSK, North Yorkshire YO7 3HE

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