Knowde Enhanced TDS
Identification & Functionality
- Chemical Family
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Functions
- Technologies
Features & Benefits
- Animal Feed & Nutrition Features
- Product Highlights
Pharmaceutical levels of ZnO is widely used in nursery feed to prevent and treat diarrhea. ZnO improves intestinal barrier function, reduce pathogen bacteria proliferation and boost the immune system. In-feed ZnO pharmaceutical levels are being phased out and a sustainable replecement is needed.
Fermentable fibers modulate the underdeveloped microbiome to drive the production of organic acids. Supplying beneficial bacteria in the lower gut with fermentable fibers increase butyric acid production by 19% in weaning piglets.
Production of butyric acid directly in the lower gut takes advantage of all beneficial outcomes of butyric acid on intestinal villi development, gut epithelial integrity, and anti-inflammatory functions. The results from these desirable effects alleviate the weaning transition, replaces zinc oxide while maintaining the same optimal growth performance.
- Features and Benefits
HP FiberStart is enzymatically co-processed protein and fiber raw materials used in nursery feed where alternatives to therapeutic use of zinc oxide is needed. The nutrient composition is 42% crude protein and 13% crude fiber. Soluble NSP comprises 7% of the total NSP content, making the fiber fractions fermentable even in weaning piglets.
- Combination of inert and fermentable fiber components
- Rich in digestible protein
- Low content of anti-nutritional factors
The many benefits of butyric acid
HP FIberStart supplies beneficial bacteria in the lower gut with fermentable fibers that increase butyric acid production by 19% in nursery piglets and remains higher through day 36 post weaning.
Gut maturation and safe transition during weaning are multifactorial of which butyric acid present in the gut as one of the most important ones. Butyric acid has multiple beneficial effects on vital intestinal function as energy source for enterocytes to stimulate villi development, gut epithelial integrity and anti-inflammatory function - all desirable outcomes needed to alleviate the transition during weaning.
Adding fiber to piglet diets results in higher production of organic acids, however the right combination of fiber fractions that ends up in the desired gut compartment is a prerequisite for stimulating beneficial bacteria and production of butyric acid to get full profit of the many stimulating benefits of butyric acid in young piglets. This can be achieved by using HP FiberStart in the nursery diet.
HP FiberStart supply beneficial bacteria to produce butyric acid where it is needed to stimulate gut development and function in nursery piglets.
- Feces consistency is more firm
- 19% higher butyric acid production
- Fibers stimulate to higher feedintake during the acute phase post weaning
- HP FiberStart results in same high growth performance as when using zinc oxide at pharmaceutical level
Applications & Uses
- Markets
- Recommended Inclusion Rate
- 10% in weaning feed (6 – 9kg piglets)
- 7% in pre-starter feed (9 – 15kg piglets)
- 3% in starter feed (15 – 30kg piglets).
Diets are balanced with other ingredients to meet animal requirements for energy and nutrients.
Technical Details & Test Data
- HP FiberStart Results
When faced with weaning challenges HP FiberStart is optimal to use because it maintains same high growth performance. The growth performance of HP FiberStart is tested in feeding trials under commercial conditions as well as in universities.
Nursery pigs performance is the same when using HP FiberStart as therapeutic treatment with zinc oxide in diets containing 18% crude protein. The benefit of using HP FiberStart during pre-weaning holds through phase three. The statistical power of our trials, with a great magnitude in terms of number of piglets and replicates, secure that the measured differences in ADG between treatments are correct. Statistical power = 89% and expresses the sensitivity of a test. As power increases, the likelihood of getting false negative test results decreases.
Piglets fed HP FiberStart and those fed pharmaceutical levels of ZnO perform equally
Inert fibers stimulate feed intake and promote peristaltic movements to reduce stasis and accumulation of digesta. Thus adhesions and consequently proliferation of pathogen bacteria is avoided.
