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Unveiling the Secrets to Efficiency and Health in Modern Animal Husbandry—Feed Additives
Release time:
2025-09-19
In the eyes of the average person, a livestock farm is a scene filled with herds of cattle and sheep, and barns brimming with chickens and ducks. Yet, in the eyes of industry experts, one of the core battlegrounds of modern animal husbandry actually lies hidden within each and every meticulously crafted feed pellet and grain. And it’s precisely today’s star—feed additives—that give these feeds their “soul” and serve as the key driver behind the livestock industry’s journey toward greater efficiency, health, and sustainability.
In the eyes of the average person, a livestock farm is a scene filled with herds of cattle and sheep, and barns brimming with chickens and ducks. Yet, in the eyes of industry experts, one of the core battlegrounds of modern animal husbandry actually lies hidden within those tiny, meticulously crafted feed pellets. And it’s precisely our protagonist today—the one that breathes “soul” into these feeds and drives the livestock industry toward greater efficiency, health, and sustainability—that holds the key to unlocking this potential. Feed additives 。
It’s not merely the “icing on the cake” of ingredients—it’s also an “invisible engine” that safeguards animal health, enhances product quality, reduces costs, and boosts revenue.
I. Going Beyond Tradition: What Exactly Are Feed Additives?
Many people mistakenly believe that feed additives are simply “antibiotics” or “hormones”—a significant cognitive misconception. Modern feed additives represent a highly technological, multidisciplinary integrated field that encompasses:
Nutritional additives—such as amino acids, vitamins, and trace minerals—precisely address the nutritional deficiencies in basic feed, ensuring that animals receive “complete nutrition” with every meal, much like a “scientifically tailored dietary package” customized for them.
Functional additives:
Probiotics & Prebiotics: Building a healthy gut microbiome in animals, inhibiting harmful bacteria, and enhancing feed digestibility and absorption represent an important alternative to antibiotics.
Enzyme preparations—acting like “biological keys”—unlock nutrients in feed that are difficult for animals to digest on their own (such as phytate phosphorus), turning waste into valuable resources and reducing food waste.
Plant extracts: Derived from natural herbs, these extracts possess antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties. They can effectively enhance animal immunity and improve the flavor and quality of meat, eggs, and dairy products.
Organic acids: regulate the pH of the intestinal tract, purify the rearing environment, and reduce disease occurrence at the source.
These additives comply with stringent regulations and are formulated based on scientific principles, with the goal of enabling animals to reach their maximum productive potential while maintaining their health.
II. Why is it described as “indispensable”?
1. For farmers: Profitability is the bottom line.
Cost Reduction and Efficiency Enhancement: By improving feed conversion rates, more feed is transformed into meat, eggs, and milk, directly reducing the feed cost per kilogram of product.
Reducing Disease: A healthy gut means a robust immune system. The use of functional additives can significantly lower the incidence of disease in animals, thereby saving substantial costs on veterinary care and medication.
Enhancing quality, commanding premium prices, and boosting revenue: Egg yolks are brighter yellow, chicken meat boasts a richer flavor, and pork features a higher lean-to-fat ratio—these high-quality agricultural products that meet market demands all owe their exceptional qualities to specific additives, which directly translate into higher sales premiums.
2. For consumers: Assurance of safety and quality
Food safety: Reducing the use of antibiotics at the source helps lower the risk of drug residues, providing safer meat, egg, and dairy products for our tables.
Nutritional Value: Through nutritional fortification, it’s possible to produce functional foods such as omega-3-enriched eggs and selenium-rich meats, meeting consumers’ growing demand for healthy and nutritious diets.
3. For the environment: A promoter of green aquaculture
Emission Reduction and Environmental Protection: Improving feed utilization efficiency means significantly reducing the amount of undigested nutrients—such as nitrogen and phosphorus—in animal excrement, thereby mitigating at the source the pollution caused by livestock farming to soil and water bodies and contributing to “carbon neutrality.”
Conserving resources: Producing more output with less feed is equivalent to conserving precious agricultural resources such as arable land and water resources, aligning with the global strategic direction of sustainable development.
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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.
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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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