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Eubiotics are seen as alternatives to things like zinc and antibiotic growth promotors for farms that can not use them, but if the global trend is that those products are no longer going to be available, should they be used as baseline?

In the context of reducing the use of antibiotics, proper use of feed additives begins with correctly defining the term and describing their composition and activity. Here we will discuss the differences between essential oils, functional oils, and botanicals/ phytogenic compounds.

What factors can help with managing piglets without in-feed antibiotics and ZnO?

If your motivation to stop using in-feed antibiotics and zinc oxide is to comply with regulations, think again. What does it take to remove in-feed medication?

To ensure judicious use of feed ingredients, we must assess the cost to produce a kilogram of pork and look at the functional value of raw materials and additives.

Data sheet with types, characteristics, use in pig diets and results of the most recent studies on xylanase enzymes.

Supplementation of proteases into pig diets has resulted in positive, inconclusive, inconsistent or, in some cases, depressive effects on performance.

In order to apply the most suitable feeding regime to newly weaned pigs it is important to balance the trade off between the detrimental effect on performance of feeding levels of protein that are too low to allow maximal growth and those which increase the risk of post weaning diarrhoea.

Due to their multiple effects at a physiologic and cellular level organic acids function as antimicrobials, modifiers of the intestinal flora, pH reducers, stimulants of pancreatic secretion and of the growth of intestinal microvilli, improvers of the gastric and intestinal flora, inhibitors of ammoniac production and of other metabolic depressors of growth, as well as energetic.