We help you improve your operations by evaluating gut health:
- Analysis services
- Development of a program adapted to your needs
- Monitoring the implementation success
Gut health, why is it important for your animals?
Gut health is a main concern in the poultry and livestock industries as it is crucial for the performance, general health and welfare of production animals.
Proper functioning of the digestive tract is essential to ensure that the production of meat, eggs and milk is up to the genetic standard of the animals; to optimize FCR; to prevent digestive diseases including leaky gut; to maintain egg quality; and to avoid the spread of pathogenic microorganisms present in feces to other animals in the same batch or the following batches.
On the other hand, gut health is related to the general health and welfare of the animals, to air quality and to certain diseases that happen outside the digestive system, such as colibacillosis, bacterial chondronecrosis with osteomyelitis (poultry), postpartum dysgalactia syndrome (sows), fatty liver and ketosis (ruminants).
For all the above, maintaining and strengthening gut health is key for the success of poultry and livestock operations.
What is exactly gut health?
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Three aspects of a healthy digestive system
Gut health covers three main aspects of the digestive system: the macro and microstructural integrity and physiology of tissues; the balance of the digestive flora; the state of the local immune system.
Healthy tissues
- Absence of lesions, irritation or inflammation
- Adequate amount of mucin
- Villi with a high villi height / crypt depth coefficient
- Robust intestinal barrier
Balanced microbiota
- High degree of microbial diversity
- High number of beneficial microorganisms
- Reduced number of pathogenic microorganisms
Robust immune system
- Generation of an adequate immune response against invading pathogens
- Robust intestinal barrier function
- Reduction of excessive inflammatory responses
It is necessary to take care of these three aspects to optimize digestive health
Solutions for a post-antibiotic world
Since the mid-twentieth century, growth-promoting antibiotics (AGP) have been fed at subtherapeutic doses and for much of the life of animals to maintain digestive health. Since 2006, when the EU banned their use, the industry is moving globally towards their reduction or elimination.
From the European experience, we have learned that no additive alone is a complete substitute for AGPs. Management practices, environmental conditions, biosecurity, chick quality, water quality, health and feeding programs – all of these factors play an important role in gut health and need to be paid more attention.
At the same time, the use of innovative ingredient combinations that address all three aspects of digestive health is key to achieving highly profitable production without the use of antibiotic growth promoters.
Our products are effective on the three aspects of a healthy digestive system
Whether you want to reduce or eliminate antibiotic growth promoters or improve the productivity and health of your animals, we offer you the right solution for each species and age.
At PlusVet Animal Health we have a comprehensive view of the importance of the digestive system, so we have designed our products and programs to act on the three aspects of a healthy gut. This holistic design makes our products radically different from others on the market.
In our gut health products, we include:
- Ingredients that improve the status of digestive tissues
- Ingredients that balance the microbiota
- Ingredients that stimulate digestive immunity
- Auxiliary ingredients needed for optimal digestive function
What can our products do for your animals?
Our offer consists of a unique set of products, adapted to each species and given through drinking water or through feed. Their efficacy is baked by multiple field trials and customer success cases.
With our solutions, not only it is possible to replace AGPs successfully, but you can also observe:
- An improvement of feed conversion ratio, body weight gain, and European Index
- An improvement of health and welfare parameters, such as footpad dermatitis in poultry or mastitis metritis agalactia in sows
- A decrease of the ammonia production
- A reduction of pathogens in the gastrointestinal tract that prevents the onset of digestive diseases
- A cutback of the antibiotics needed for treatment of certain diseases
- An increase of the economic benefits
Gut health solutions to fulfill your needs
DigestoCid©, innovative acidifier in liquid containing organic acids, phytogenics and medium chain fatty acids. Intended for poultry, rabbits and swine.
PlusProtect Digestive©, oral emulsion containing microbiocide and prebiotic phytogenics. Intended for poultry and rabbits.
SupraPlus©, oral emulsion containing essential oils, prebiotics, electrolytes and vitamin E. Intended for poultry, rabbits, swine and ruminants.
GrowthPlus©, premix powder that includes phytogenics, organic acids and mycotoxin binders, to be added to poultry, rabbit and aquaculture feeds.
ActiPlus©, oral emulsion with essential oils, prebiotics, electrolytes and vitamin E. To be given directly into the mouth of the animal.
SupraPlus©, oral emulsion containing essential oils, prebiotics, electrolytes and vitamin E. Intended for poultry, rabbits, swine and ruminants.
DigestoCid©, innovative premium acidifier in liquid containing organic acids, phytogenics and medium chain fatty acids. Intended for poultry and swine.
PigletPlus©, premix powder, based on phytogenics, organic acids and mycotoxin binders, to be added to feeds intended for swine.
ReproPlus©, premix powder, based on phytogenics, organic acids and mycotoxin binders, to be added to feeds intended for gestating and lactating sows.
PhytoLat©, premix powder, based on phytogenics, organic acids and mycotoxin binders, to be added to feeds intended for ruminants.
GrowthPlus©, premix powder that includes phytogenics, organic acids and mycotoxin binders, to be added to poultry, rabbit and aquaculture feeds.
AroMar©, highly concentrated premix powder, based on phytogenics and organic acids, to be added to aquaculture feeds.
PhytoAqua©, highly concentrated oral emulsion, based on phytogenics and medium chain fatty acids, to be added to aquaculture feeds, ponds or water tanks.
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