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Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Functions
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Features
- Product Highlights
Chicks grow and develop at a high rate during the first two weeks after hatching. Each chick doubles in weight several times as the heart, liver and digestive tract gain the necessary size to support developing muscles and bones.
Many nutrients are necessary to assure proper growth, but the ability to absorb nutrients is limited by the chick’s underdeveloped digestive tract. In this sense, young chicks are more sensitive to a shortage in protein than in lipids or carbohydrates. The residual yolk provides 30% of the nutrients required for growth and maintenance after hatch. However, the protein contribution from the yolk sac is exhausted much earlier than that of energy (Swennen et al., 2010).
To overcome the limitations of the immature digestive tract, a special feed is essential. When nutrient uptake is enhanced during the first days of life, particularly that of protein, overall performance may be improved right up to slaughter. Tests prove HP AviStart can make a significant difference.
Applications & Uses
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Technical Details & Test Data
- Trial
HP AviStart – key findings
End weight and feed conversion ratio are improved when 5-10% HP AviStart are included in broiler starter feed, compared to the control diets.The feeding trials in brief
- 20 trials including 44 assessments (HP AviStart-supplemented diets vs control diets)
- Conducted around the world
- Performed by external partners
HP AviStart was fed (5-10%) during the starter phase from day 0 to day 7-14. The trials ran for 35 to 42 days. The feeding trials primarily compared HP AviStart with soybean meal or other protein sources such as fishmeal, potato protein, corn gluten etc.
The trials were restricted to broilers fed isocaloric diets with similar amino acid content. They must have reported a measure of variance.
The current meta-analysis includes body weight, feed intake and FCR.
- Correlation Between Digestibility and Gut Health
It has been demonstrated that variation in the amount of certain soybean meal antinutritional factors in feed, such as a trypsin inhibitors, not only affects protein digestibility but also affects gut health (e.g. incidence of sub-clinical necrotic enteritis) in the flock (Palliyeguru et al., 2011). As the birds get older, the gut microbiota is more stable. However, in young chickens, the microbiota is not yet fully stable (Shang et al., 2018). An influx of undigested nutrients from the small intestine may cause a proliferation of non-beneficial bacteria (Apajalahti and Vienola, 2016). Ensuring the lowest possible trypsin-inhibitor activity in chicken diets is a valuable tool to improve the gut health and welfare of birds.
Effect of dietary trypsin inhibitor activity (TIA, mg/g of diet) on protein digestibility and necrotic enteritis lesion score in chickens (32 days).In broilers fed a 10-day corn or wheat-based starter diet with 5% HP AviStart, villi height:crypt depth ratio (VH:CD) was seen to increase. A strong correlation (r² = 0.81) was observed between VH:CD and apparent ileal protein digestibility (Iji and Swick, 2014)
Another study showed a significant correlation (r² = 0.96, p = 0.009) between a well-developed gut and improved FCR(Unpublished data, Nong Lam University, Vietnam, 2016). Compared to a control starter diet, VH:CD also benefited from a carry-over effect when the starter diet contained HP AviStart (Thieu et al., 2017).
- Effect
HP AviStart is a reliable protein source to improve gut health, reduce litter moisture and footpad dermatitis incidence Better intestinal health and gut development in chickens will result in lower incidence of wet litter and, consequently, lower incidence in pododermatitis, as observed in a study where HP AviStart replaced different protein sources in starter diets for chickens (Bjedvov et al., 2015).
- How HP AviStart is Superior to Soybean Meal
HP AviStart is a unique product that contains an extremely low level of the anti-nutritional factors (ANF), which are known to disrupt normal intestinal function (Woyengo et al., 2017). Therefore, HP AviStart minimizes the impairments of nutrient digestibility and absorption due to ANF. High digestibility ensures the chicks gain full benefit of the product’s high level of essential amino acids. See last page of the leaflet for a general comparison between HP AviStart and regular soybean meal.
