The growing demand for high-quality poultry meat has led to genetic selection for fast-growing broilers. This enhances body weight and FCR, boosting the profitability and productivity of farmers. However, intensive selection can impact muscle structure and metabolism, leading to muscle myopathies that compromise meat tenderness and texture.

Factors like low oxygen, oxidative stress, and disturbed homeostasis, contribute to muscle myopathies. These conditions lead to inflammation, myodegeneration, fibrosis, and lipidosis. Muscle myopathies not only affect the economic aspect of the poultry industry due to the removal of affected parts but also reduce meat quality, making it tougher and less desirable. Kuttappan et al. (2016) reported that the percentage of broilers with WS or WB was as high as 90%, causing an economic loss of about $200 million to $1 billion per year to the U.S. poultry industry.

Muscle Myopathies That Affect Tenderness

These abnormalities lead to tougher, lower-quality meat:
• White Striping (WS) meat – Characterized by white streaks of fat that interfere with the meat’s natural texture.
• Wooden Breast (WB) – Identified by pale, bulging areas with significant hardness, making the meat stiff and chewy.
• Spaghetti Meat (SM) – Causes muscle fibers to separate, resulting in a mushy, fibrous texture.

Impact of Muscle Myopathies on Meat

• Poor meat texture and undesirable visual appearance.
• Lower sensory qualities affecting consumer preference.
• Reduced protein content and increased fat and moisture levels.
• Higher final pH affecting processing efficiency.

With muscle myopathies reducing meat quality and increasing losses, producers need a reliable solution to maintain profitability and consumer trust. TENDERO is a novel poultry feed additive that improves meat texture and tenderness eventually reducing losses.
TENDERO is a combination of phyto-actives that reduces muscle stiffness, enhances protein balance, and improves meat texture. It is an effective dietary supplement for broiler production systems, providing chicken meat free of abnormalities like woody breast, white striping, and spaghetti meat.

How Does TENDERO Work?

Muscular abnormalities show a common mechanism, often leading to tougher meat with higher fat content and lower protein levels. TENDERO acts as an amino acid optimizer, enhancing protein accretion and composition. It reduces muscle protein degradation, leaving less space for fat accumulation. This results in the improved texture of meat, protein-lipid-water interactions enhancing tenderness, and firmer yet tender meat retaining its nutritional value.

By using TENDERO, farmers can enhance meat tenderness, making it more appealing to consumers while significantly reducing economic losses.

Better texture, better tenderness, better nutrition—experience the TENDERO difference!

 

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Farmers are generally familiar with diarrhea caused by bacteria like E. coli or viruses. In contrast, parasitic illnesses such as Cryptosporidiosis (crypto) are less well-known, even though Cryptosporidium parvum is a common disease in calves. Cryptosporidiosis is likely the most infectious agent causing calf scours on farms due to its incidence, universality, environmental resilience, and low infective dosage. Cryptosporidiosis is now recognized as endemic in cattle worldwide and is one of the most important causes of neonatal enteritis in calves globally. The economic losses associated with bovine cryptosporidiosis include the cost of treating and managing enteritis, reduced feed conversion and production efficiency, and losses due to mortality. A recent study found that dairy calves infected with C. parvum between 3 days and 3 weeks of age incurred an average cost of €40 (~£35/$43) per calf.

What Is Cryptosporidium Parvum?

Cryptosporidium parvum is a protozoan parasite that causes cryptosporidiosis in cattle, primarily affecting young calves. Four species of Cryptosporidium are commonly found in cattle: C. parvum, C. bovis, C. ryanae, and C. andersoni, but only C. parvum is associated with clinical disease in neonatal calves, with older animals (> 6 weeks) exhibiting asymptomatic shedding of oocysts.

Facts About Bovine Cryptosporidiosis

• Mainly affects calves (especially those under 4 weeks old)
• Causes severe watery diarrhea, leading to dehydration and weakness
• Spreads through feces-contaminated water, feed, or environment
• No specific treatment is available; management focuses on supportive care and hydration.

Life Cycle of Cryptosporidium Parvum

Infected calves shed millions of parasites into the environment, as the parasite’s life cycle allows it to multiply rapidly. This leads to very high levels of oocysts in the environment, which is a source of infection for young animals in that environment.

Current Control Measures for Bovine Cryptosporidiosis

Cryptosporidiosis is a difficult disease to control because of environmentally stable oocysts, low infective doses, high levels of excreted sporulated oocysts, and rapid transmission of infection to a group of susceptible hosts very quickly. The oocysts are resistant to many disinfectants; there are no vaccines available to prevent the disease, and available treatment options are limited and often rely on rehydration therapy. However, crypto-related scour can add thousands in treatment costs, added labor, and reduced feed efficiency and performance.

Among the various solutions available for managing cryptosporidiosis in cattle, natural plant-based phytogenic solutions have emerged as a more effective and sustainable alternative. Unlike conventional treatments, which may have limitations such as drug resistance or environmental concerns, phytogenic solutions may offer a natural and holistic way to improve gut health, enhance immunity, and support faster recovery in infected calves.

Effect of Phytogenic Feed Additives from Studies

Natural compounds such as plant secondary metabolites showed a wide range of beneficial effects on animal health. Polyphenols, a group of plant secondary metabolites, have been postulated for their antibloat qualities, improved nitrogen utilization, reduced methane generation, and anti-helminthic effects. Previous studies reported that polyphenolic compounds or polyphenol-rich plant extracts suppress experimentally induced inflammation processes, especially in the gut. The ability to activate several antioxidant enzymes by polyphenols could also be an explanation for the results found in the various studies.

 

 

Cryptorid is a specially formulated, non-antibiotic animal feed supplement designed to prevent bacterial scours and disrupt the lifecycle of Cryptosporidium, which reduces the risk of cryptosporidiosis in calves. It contains a blend of plant extracts rich in phenolic compounds, including tannins, flavonoids, isoflavones, and phenolic acids, which work synergistically to enhance calf performance, support gut health, and effectively control diarrhea.

BENEFITS

1. Disrupts the lifecycle of Cryptosporidium
2. Reduces oocyst shedding
3. Boosts immunity in juvenile
4. Strengthens and protects the villous lining of the intestinal epithelium
5. Antioxidant and Anti-inflammatory properties to strengthen the defense system

 

“Crypto-Free Calves – Naturally”

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In poultry farming, feed quality is important in ensuring the ideal growth, health, and productivity. Proper feed particle size is crucial for optimal digestion and gut development. Whole grain feed causes uneven nutrient intake, lower digestibility, and potential mycotoxin contamination. Mash feed is dusty, leading to high wastage, selective feeding, and poor nutrient absorption. Also, fine particles pass quickly through the gizzard with minimal grinding, resulting in a smaller gizzard, an enlarged proventriculus, and reduced intestinal length eventually reducing their exposure to digestive enzymes. As birds grow consumption of fine particles becomes difficult. This may result in an incomplete nutrient breakdown, negatively affecting FCR. Hence, pelleting is used to obtain the desired feed particle size required for poultry of a specific age.

Pelleting compacts feed particles, ensuring uniformity and reducing nutrient loss. It ensures optimum nutrition intake by minimizing ingredient disintegration and promoting uniform distribution. Pellet binds the fine particles to stimulate gizzard activity, improving feed utilization, growth performance, immunity, and gut health. It reduces wastage, and selective eating behavior, and improves feed efficiency, handling, and storage stability.

Maintaining pellet quality is important for poultry productivity and profitability. Various factors, such as feed formulation, processing conditions, and post-processing practices, can affect the production of high-quality, durable pellets.

Need of Pellet Binder

Coarse particles, Insufficient conditioning, excessive fats and oils, incorrect die configuration, or inadequate pressure significantly affect production and enhance animal productivity. In order to minimize these consequences pellet binders are used.

Pellet binders ensure the pellet remains intact, durable, and nutritionally effective throughout processing and transportation. It also improves the pellet durability index, ensures effective binding of raw materials, and minimizes fine particles and moisture retention eventually improving digestion, nutrition absorption, and bird performance.

Traditionally, synthetic binders like polymethyl carbamide (PMC) have been widely used to strengthen pellets. However, with growing concerns about sustainability, performance efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, Ultrapell can be considered a viable organic alternative to synthetic binders.

Ultrapell: The Natural Solution for Superior Pelleting

Ultrapell is an organic pellet binder specifically designed for poultry feed processing. It is a thermo-reactive binder that is stable at room temperature and therefore will mix well with other feed ingredients. Once the feed mix is exposed to moisture and heat in the conditioner, this organic feed binder binds other feed ingredients. It enhances pelleting capacity and reduces energy consumption at the feed mills.

Ultrapell significantly reduces dustiness and dry matter loss from feed. It improves pellet durability compared to synthetic binders and the control group.

Benefits of Ultrapell

• Improves pellet durability and stability.
• Easily distributed in feed.
• Improves transportation convince.
• Prevents particle disintegration.
• Supports higher production and lower energy consumption.
• Reduces waste.

For poultry farmers to improve feed stability, nutrient retention, and profitability, Ultrapell is the ultimate natural solution for durable pellet quality.

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Production of eggs containing the desired content of omega 3 is expected to continuously increase in the future, reasonably due to increasing consumers’ demand for superior egg quality. As the most affordable protein source, individuals increasingly prefer to consume eggs. Hence, providing eggs with a higher content of Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) is the most convenient way to fulfill the nutritional demands of consumers. The three main omega-3 fatty acids are Alpha-linolenic acid, C18:3 n-3 (ALA), Eicosapentaenoic Acid, C20:5 n-3 (EPA), and Docosahexaenoic Acids, C22:6 n-3 (DHA). ALA is found mainly in plant oils such as flaxseed, soybean, and canola oils. DHA and EPA are found in fish and other seafood.

ROLE OF OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS

Omega-3 fatty acids support the proper functioning of every cell in the body. They’re a vital part of cell membranes, which help to provide structure and supporting interactions between cells. Omega-3s are highly concentrated in cells of the eyes and brain. In addition, they also provide the body with energy (calories) and support the health of many body systems. These include the cardiovascular system, endocrine system, immune system, etc.

Omega-3s are found naturally in some foods and are added to some fortified foods. You can get adequate amounts of omega-3s by eating a variety of foods, including the following:

• Fish and other seafood (especially cold-water fatty fish, such as salmon, mackerel, tuna, herring, and sardines)
• Nuts and seeds (such as flaxseed, chia seeds, and walnuts)
• Plant oils (such as flaxseed oil, soybean oil, and canola oil)
• Fortified foods (such as certain brands of eggs, yogurt, juices, milk, soy beverages, and infant formulas)

By integrating omega-3 fatty acids into layer bird diets, producers can achieve economic benefits through enhanced product quality, improved animal health, and access to premium market segments. Eggs can be designed through dietary approaches either by supplementation of specific nutrients, or certain herbs or specific drugs that have functional and therapeutic properties.

MANIPULATING THE HEN’S DIET: TO ACHIEVE THE DESIRED COMPOUNDS IN EGG.

The majority of birds and animals including human beings cannot synthesize these n-3 fatty acids, hence they are dietary essential. Enriching diets of layers with omega-3 precursors is the most effective strategy to enhance functional properties in eggs, and the overall performance of layer birds. The total fat content in the egg yolk cannot be altered but its fatty acid composition can be altered, by changing the type of supplements used in the hens’ diet.

BENEFITS OF OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS TO POULTRY

• Increases essential polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA)
• Improves the quality of egg
• Increases egg mass
• Decrease in saturated and trans fatty acids
• Results in more than 3-fold increase in the omega-3 fatty acids content of eggs
• Strong antioxidants prevent severe inflammation of the tissue

BENEFITS OF OMEGA-3 FATTY ACIDS TO CONSUMER

• Supports brain and cardiovascular health
• Reduces cholesterol and increases high-density lipoproteins (HDL)
• Improves vision, skin, and immune system
• Helps in Diabetes and Rheumatoid arthritis
• Lowers triglyceride concentration
• Stabilizes membrane structure
• Improves immune strength

ALPHALINOMEGA

ALPHALINOMEGA is an omega fatty acid supplement for omega-fortified chicken and eggs. It is an innovative poultry feed supplement that contains major essential fatty acids and can be easily administered via water. The enrichment of omega-3 fatty acids in poultry is directly linked to the amount provided via diet. ALPHALINOMEGA also helps in the high absorption of omega fatty acids (up to 98%) and improves FCR, leading to better weight gain, and improved overall health of the poultry.

“Omega-3 enriched eggs: Better for hens, best for you!”

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Feed is the major cost contributor in aquaculture production, costing approximately 60-70% of the total cost.  Feed with high-quality ingredients undergo precise processing techniques to achieve maximum aquaculture yield.  Poor feed quality can lead to feed wastage, higher costs, and decreased animal performance. Therefore, the aqua-feed industry is continuously searching for strategies to improve feed processing techniques to ensure the quality and affordability of feed.

Pelleting is a feed processing technique that maintains feed homogeneity by agglomerating or compaction of feed particles. Pelleting involves compressing feed particles under mechanical and thermal forces to create dense, durable pellets. This compaction process reduces bulk volume, increases shelf life, and improves transportation efficiency.

Various characteristics of aquaculture pellets directly affecting feed quality and performance are

Despite advancements in pelleting technology, maintaining consistent pellet quality remains a challenge.  Water stability measures how well aqua feed pellets maintain their structure when submerged in water. This factor is particularly crucial for species like shrimp, which are slow feeders and rely on pellets remaining intact in water for extended periods. Insufficient water stability in pellets can cause rapid feed disintegration, leading to nutrient loss and reduced efficiency—ultimately impacting profitability.

To address this, aquaculture feed manufacturers often incorporate pellet binders into their formulations to avoid the disintegration of pellets. Pellet binders provide the necessary binding strength to hold feed particles together, reducing fines and dust. Binders strengthen pellets and enhance their integrity, durability, and stability. They also reduce nutrient leaching and prevent fragmentation and abrasion of pellets during handling, transportation, storage, and feeding to aqua-cultural species. Traditionally, synthetic binders like polymethyl carbamide (PMC) have been widely used to strengthen pellets. However, with growing concerns about sustainability, performance efficiency, and cost-effectiveness, Pelletovin can be considered as a viable organic alternative to PMC.

Pelletovin: Organic binder for high-grade pelleting

Pelletovin is an all-purpose, organic, thermo-reactive binder that is stable at room temperatures and therefore will mix well with other feed ingredients. Once the feed mix is exposed to moisture and heat in the conditioner, this organic feed binder binds other feed ingredients. It enhances pelleting capacity and reduces energy consumption at the feed mills.

According to field trials, Pelletovin significantly reduces dustiness and dry matter loss from feed. Pelletovin at an inclusion rate of 0.3% gives approximately 80% water stability and about 90 % pellet durability index (PDI). It shows better efficacy than synthetic binders like polymethyl carbamide (PMC).

Key Benefits of Pelletovin :

• Enhances water stability of aquatic feed.
• Strengthens pellets for better durability and integrity.
• Reduces dusting and run time.
• Lowers energy consumption and increases production rates.
• Protects essential nutrients.
• Minimizes friction in the pellet die.

Pelletovin helps to achieve optimum delivery and utilization of nutrients to the livestock supporting cost-effective and efficient aquaculture feed production.

‘Enhance pellet durability and reduce operational costs of your aquaculture with Pelletovin’

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