Development Highlights of Functional Feed Additives in Poultry

With the development of animal nutrition, physiology, feeding, biochemistry, bioengineering, pharmacology, microbiology and other disciplines, feed additives now have integrated multiple disciplines and a variety of new technologies. Therefore, at present and in the future, the development and production of feed additives will present the following nine development directions:

• Technology. With the further development of science and technology, the scientific and technological content of feed additives continues to increase, and science and technology will become an important symbol of the development of feed additives. With the continuous advancement of the scientific and technological process of the feed additive industry, a number of feed additive varieties with high scientific and technological content will emerge, thereby driving the feed industry to develop in the direction of science and technology, and promoting the development of the feed industry and animal husbandry to a higher level.
• Specialization. At present, the feed additive industry is still attached to related industries such as the feed industry and the pharmaceutical industry, and the degree of specialization is not high. With the continuous development of the scale of the breeding industry, the demand for compound feed will increase significantly, and the quality requirements will continue to increase, which will effectively promote the professional development process of the feed additive industry.

• Serialization. With the development of the feed additive industry in the direction of science and technology and specialization, the varieties and types of feed additives will be further serialized and subdivided. Lima Biotech has developed a series of functional additives, such as the recommended scheme for poultry population health care. Aiming at the current status of poultry production performance, the product design mechanism is to regulate the reproductive endocrine system, digestive system and immune system of the chicken body, and the product design purpose is safety, green, environmental protection and no drug residue. It has researched and developed functional additives specifically for poultry, namely egg-increasing products that can improve fertilization rate, hatching rate and egg production rate, weight-increasing products that can stop diarrhea and promote growth, and nutritional products that can improve immunity. While ensuring human food safety, it taps into the maximum production performance of the chicken flock, thereby maximizing the income of farmers.

• Environmental protection. With the improvement of people's environmental awareness and the need for sustainable development, the environmental protection of feed additives will be the top priority of future feed additive development. In particular, after some feed additives with large side effects such as antibiotics are gradually eliminated, with the research and development of a new generation of products, environmental protection will have more obvious characteristics of the times. Feed additives developed in the future should be able to reasonably utilize resources, not pollute the environment, not pose a threat to human health, and have no toxic side effects such as drug residues.
  

• High efficiency. Efficiency is a major direction for the development of feed additives in the future. The efficiency of feed additives depends on the progress and improvement of feed additive related technologies. Under the market economy, each feed additive production unit will pay more attention to the basic research of feed additives and continuously develop new varieties, so that the varieties of feed additives are constantly updated and the effects will be significantly improved.
• Functionalization. With the improvement of people's living standards, people have also put forward new special requirements for animal products, such as the color, meat quality, taste and health functions of animal products, and most of these requirements must be achieved through the functions of feed additives. Therefore, the functionalization of feed additives is also a major direction for future development. Feed additives with health functions and one additive with multiple functions will surely become the development highlights of feed additives, and there is great market development potential. Lima Biotechnology has creatively proposed the concept of reproductive nutrition and health management of poultry in large-scale chicken farms. Its patented product "Egg Increaser" has the unique function of "extending the peak of egg production and increasing egg production".
• Economization. With the further intensification of market competition, the economy of feed additives has been further reflected. In addition to having good effects and production performance, the economic performance of feed additives is also very important. Only feed additives with good economic performance-price ratio and input-output ratio can be accepted by the majority of feed manufacturers and breeders, and be widely promoted and applied.
• Convenience. Future feed additives should be closer to and more convenient for actual production applications. Therefore, micro-quantification and premixing are also a direction for the development of feed additives in the future.
• Nutrition. Nutrition is a key factor in determining health. The health of the flock is the basis for improving egg-laying performance, and the quality of the eggshell has a certain relationship with the reproductive nutrition of laying hens. Supplementing reproductive nutrition instead of antibacterial health care can improve the health level of laying hens; supplementing reproductive nutrition can adjust the endocrine function of poultry. Adding the patented product "egg enhancer" to laying hen feed can meet the reproductive nutrition requirements of laying hens.
  
  Source: China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary News