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Farming Tips: Optimize scientific feed formulations to ensure every penny spent delivers maximum efficiency.
Release time:
2025-04-11
Feed costs account for 60% to 70% of total farming costs. How to achieve precise feed formulation that both ensures animal nutrition and controls costs is a core challenge for farmers.
1. Why does feed formulation become the key to the success or failure of livestock farming?
1. The Cost of Nutritional Imbalance
- Over-addition: Blindly increasing protein levels can easily lead to digestive disorders in animals and feed waste (e.g., excessive nitrogen content in pig manure).
- Nutritional deficiency: A lack of essential amino acids, vitamins, and other nutrients directly slows growth rate and weakens disease resistance (e.g., increasing the likelihood of laying hens producing eggs with soft shells).
2. The Leverage Effect of Cost Control
By optimizing the corn-soybean meal ratio and adding... Enzyme preparation By improving digestibility, the feed-to-meat ratio for broilers can be reduced.
II. The Three Scientific Principles for Optimizing Feed Formulation
Principle 1: Tailor solutions to the specific needs of each “animal.”
Animals at different growth stages and of different breeds have significantly varying nutritional requirements:
- Pig farming: During the fattening phase, pigs require a high-energy diet (with corn accounting for 65%-70%); lactating sows need a high-protein diet (crude protein content of 16%-18%).
- Aquaculture: Fish and shrimp are more sensitive to amino acid balance and require the addition of methionine, lysine, and other essential amino acids.
Practical recommendation: Regularly monitor animal growth data (such as daily weight gain and backfat thickness) and dynamically adjust the feed formulation.
Principle 2: Raw Material Substitution—Breaking the Dependence on “Corn-Soybean Meal”
Affected by fluctuations in international grain prices, replacing some corn and soybean meal with locally sourced, lower-priced ingredients has become a trend.
- Use of oilseed meal: After fermentation and detoxification, cottonseed meal and rapeseed meal can replace 10%-15% of soybean meal.
- Straw conversion: Adding cellulase to wheat straw reduces the cost of ruminant animal feed by 8% to 12%.
Principle 3: Enhance the effectiveness of additives and unlock hidden value.
By using functional additives to compensate for the shortcomings of raw materials, we achieve a “1+1>2” effect:
- Enzyme preparations: Break down non-starch polysaccharides (such as xylanase) to enhance the utilization of bran and rice bran;
- Acidifiers: Regulate the pH of the intestinal tract and reduce the incidence of diarrhea (after application in piglets, the incidence of diarrhea decreased by 30%).
- Microecological preparations: boost immunity and reduce antibiotic usage costs.
3. Four-step practical method for quickly mastering and optimizing ingredient ratios.
Step 1: Basic Formula Diagnosis
Collect current feed formulation data, raw material prices, and animal performance data, and use formulation software (such as Brill or Format) to calculate nutritional gaps.
Step 2: Dynamically adjust the ratio
- Energy and protein balance: Replace the crude protein indicator with “digestible amino acids” to reduce the excessive addition of soybean meal.
- Cost-effectiveness first: When corn prices are higher than wheat prices, a portion of the corn can be replaced with wheat plus enzyme preparations.
Step 3: Small-Scale Trial Verification
Select 50–100 animals for a feeding trial lasting 7–10 days, and compare indicators such as weight gain and fecal condition.
Step 4: Continuous Monitoring and Optimization
Monthly testing of raw material nutritional components (such as moisture and mycotoxins), and adjusting alternative solutions based on market conditions.
4. Technological Upgrade: Smart Tools Make Proportions More Efficient
1. Formula software application
Enter the prices of raw materials and nutritional requirements, and the system will automatically generate a minimum-cost formulation (e.g., after implementation at a pig farm, feed costs were reduced by 5%).
2. Near-infrared detector
Quickly analyze the nutritional content of raw materials in just 3 minutes, avoiding formulation errors caused by batch-to-batch variations.
3. IoT Feeding System
Automatically adjust the feeding amount based on real-time animal growth data to reduce waste.
V. Our solution: Scientific formulation + efficiency-enhancing additives = double protection.
To meet the personalized needs of livestock farmers, we are launching the **“Precision Nutrition Optimization Service”:**
- Free formula diagnosis: Our expert team will analyze your existing formula to identify areas for improvement.
- Customized additive solutions:
- Adding XXX protease increases the utilization rate of mixed meal by 20%;
- When used in combination with XXX acidifier, the diarrhea rate in piglets is reduced by 40%.
Latest experiment
Broiler Glucose Oxidase Experiment
One-day-old Ross 308 broiler chickens were selected, with a total of 4 chicken houses, each housing 11,000 birds. The birds were randomly divided into a control group and a treatment group, with 2 chicken houses assigned to each group. The control group was fed a commercial diet supplemented with Changle (allicin and oregano phenol) at 100 mL/ton, while the treatment group was fed a commercial diet supplemented with glucose oxidase at 100 U/L. During the trial period, birds had free access to feed and water. The trial lasted for 42 days. The experimental diet consisted of corn, soybean meal, wheat, cottonseed meal, DDGS, peanut meal, duck fat, and premixes, among other ingredients; nutritional parameters are shown in Table 1.
Lactic Acid Bacteria Experiment
Effect of Lactic Acid Bacteria on Broiler Diarrhea: A Raising Experiment Experimental Site: Jiyang Zheng* Animal Husbandry Farm Experiment Period: August 31, 2015 – September 4, 2015 Experimental Subjects: 30-day-old broilers Experimental Design: Control Group: Normal feeding + normal drinking water Experimental Group: Normal feeding + normal drinking water + lactic acid bacteria (liquid)
Piglet Fruit Milk Flavor Experiment
Twenty 28-day-old weaned piglets of the Duroc × Landrace × Large White crossbreed, with similar body weights and in good health, were selected for the trial. They were randomly divided into two treatment groups: a control group and a test group. The control group was fed a basal diet, while the test group was fed a basal diet supplemented with 600 g/t of fruit-milk flavoring. Each group consisted of five replicates, with two piglets per replicate. During the trial period, the pigs had free access to feed and water, and the trial lasted for 28 days.
In this trial, 120 healthy, growing pigs of similar body condition, weighing 80 ± 10 kg, were randomly divided into a control group, an antibiotic group, and an essential oil group. The specific feeding design is shown in Table 1. Each group consisted of 4 replicates, with 10 pigs per replicate. The trial duration was 29 days. The experimental diet was formulated according to the nutritional requirements outlined in NRC (2012). During the trial, pigs had free access to feed and water, and were subjected to routine husbandry management and vaccination protocols. Body weights at the beginning and end of the trial, as well as feed intake, were recorded. At the end of the trial, fresh fecal samples were collected from each pig, placed into sterile 10 ml centrifuge tubes, and stored at -80℃.
Tian Yikang replaces chlortetracycline in the ROSS-308 trial.
This experiment employed a single-factor experimental design. A total of 6,000 Ross-308 broiler chickens, aged 1 day and with roughly similar body weights and good health conditions, were randomly selected and divided into three treatment groups, with five replicates per group, each replicate consisting of 400 chickens. The control group was fed a basal diet based on corn and soybean meal. The experimental group 1, the antibiotic group, had 50 g/t of a 15% chlortetracycline premix added to the basal diet. The experimental group 2, the Tianyikang addition group, had 1,500 g/t of Tianyikang added to the basal diet. The entire experiment lasted for 42 days.
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