What are Feed Probiotics and How Does it Affect Animal Husbandry?
Feed Probiotics refer to preparations made through special processes using beneficial and harmless probiotics or growth promoting substances of probiotics to the host. These preparations can maintain the balance of animal gut microbiota, enhance immunity, and selectively promote the growth of normal animal microbiota.
Mechanism of Action
Feed Probiotics exert their effects through the following mechanisms:
Maintaining microbiota balance: By supplementing beneficial bacteria, regulating the gut microbiota, and maintaining microbiota balance.
Enhancing Immunity: strengthen the animal's immune system and reduce the occurrence of diseases.
Promotion of Growth: Improve feed conversion rate and enhance animal growth performance.
Application Range
Feed Probiotics are widely used in animal husbandry, especially in livestock and poultry breeding, gradually replacing traditional antibiotic additives. They can improve feed quality, increase feed utilization, promote animal growth, improve the ecological environment, and prevent and control livestock and poultry diseases, while reducing the use of harmful feed additives.
Furthermore, below are the main roles that Feed Probiotics play in Animal Husbandry:
Promote Digestion & Absorption, and Enhance Immunity
Probiotics such as lactic acid bacteria and yeast in microbial feed additives can secrete various digestive enzymes to help animals break down complex substances in feed that are difficult to directly absorb, such as cellulose and hemicellulose, thereby improving the digestibility and nutritional value of feed. These probiotics can also regulate the balance of animal intestinal microbiota, enhance intestinal mucosal barrier function, reduce the occurrence of intestinal diseases, and indirectly promote the absorption of nutrients. In addition, Feed Probiotics reduce the number and activity of harmful bacteria in the gut by competitively inhibiting them, maintaining gut health, and activating the body's immune system to enhance animal immunity.
Improving the Breeding Environment
Feed Probiotics can improve the quality of animal excrement, reduce the content of harmful gases such as ammonia nitrogen and hydrogen sulfide in feces, lower the odor of feces, thereby reducing air pollution in breeding farms and the difficulty and cost of subsequent feces treatment.
Enhancing the Quality and Safety of Breeding Products
In addition, by reducing the use of veterinary drugs, the problem of drug residues in aquaculture products has been effectively solved, improving the market competitiveness of the products.
Promote Sustainable Development of Agriculture
The application of micro ecological feed additives can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and agricultural non-point source pollution, lower breeding costs, and improve breeding efficiency.
