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Butyric Acid Bacillus—The “Golden Key” to Healthy Livestock and Poultry Farming
Release time:
2025-09-29
In the modern livestock and poultry farming industry, which strives for efficiency, sustainability, and health, are we still grappling with concerns about antibiotic residues, the frequent occurrence of animal intestinal diseases, and persistently high farming costs? Today, a microbial preparation called Clostridium butyricum—thanks to its outstanding efficacy—is emerging as an “unsung champion” that’s cracking these challenges head-on, bringing about a profound health transformation in the farming sector.
In the modern livestock and poultry farming industry, which strives for efficiency, sustainability, and health, are we still grappling with concerns about antibiotic residues, the frequent occurrence of animal intestinal diseases, and persistently high farming costs? Today, a substance known as... Butyric acid bacterium Microecological preparations, with their outstanding efficacy, are emerging as the “hidden champions” that are cracking these challenges and bringing about a profound health transformation in the aquaculture industry.
I. Getting to Know the “Invisible Guardian” of the Aquaculture Industry—Clostridium butyricum
Clostridium butyricum, also known as Butyric Acid Bacillus, is a naturally occurring, beneficial anaerobic bacterium found in the intestines of animals. It’s not only an “indigenous resident” of the gut but also a true “guardian of intestinal health.” Compared to the probiotics we’re familiar with, Clostridium butyricum boasts unique advantages—such as high heat resistance, acid resistance, and bile tolerance—which enable it to safely traverse the digestive tract, reach the intestines intact, and establish a stable colonization, thereby exerting powerful and long-lasting effects.
II. The four core benefits of Bacillus butyricus—safeguarding and enhancing livestock farming efficiency
1. The “guardian” of gut health—your ultimate ally against diarrhea.
Clostridium butyricum is the direct producer of butyrate—a preferred energy source for intestinal epithelial cells. Butyrate can rapidly repair damaged intestinal mucosa, strengthen the intestinal barrier, and effectively prevent the invasion of pathogenic bacteria and toxins. As a result, it significantly reduces the incidence of intestinal diseases such as yellow and white diarrhea in piglets and necrotic enteritis in poultry, fundamentally improving livestock and poultry diarrhea problems.
2. A powerful antibacterial and anti-inflammatory “new force,” replacing antibiotics
Clostridium butyricum can secrete bacteriocins (butyricin) in the gut, a substance that exerts a potent inhibitory effect on common pathogenic bacteria such as Salmonella, Escherichia coli, and Clostridium perfringens. Meanwhile, the butyric acid produced during its metabolism itself also possesses strong anti-inflammatory properties. Through a dual mechanism—“controlling pathogens with beneficial bacteria” and “anti-inflammatory repair”—Clostridium butyricum emerges as an ideal alternative to reduce antibiotic use, thereby helping to produce livestock and poultry products that are antibiotic-free and safe.
3. A “speed accelerator” for nutrient digestion, enhancing feed efficiency.
Clostridium butyricum can produce a variety of digestive enzymes, such as amylase, protease, and cellulase, which help break down difficult-to-digest nutrients in feed, thereby enhancing the absorption of proteins, energy, and trace elements. This means that, with the same amount of feed input, livestock and poultry can obtain more nutrients, resulting in a significant reduction in the feed-to-meat ratio (FCR), accelerated growth rates, and a direct boost to your farming economic efficiency.
4. Immune-modulating “activator” that enhances disease resistance.
The gut is the body’s largest immune organ. Clostridium butyricum and its metabolite, butyric acid, can stimulate the development of intestinal lymphoid tissues, promote the proliferation of immune cells, and increase antibody levels. By using Clostridium butyricum, we essentially establish a powerful “intestinal guard” for livestock and poultry, fundamentally enhancing their overall health and stress resistance, enabling them to get sick less often and grow stronger.
3. Widely applicable, with tangible benefits.
In swine production: Particularly suitable for weaned piglets, it effectively addresses diarrhea and growth stagnation caused by weaning stress, thereby improving survival rates and uniformity.
In poultry farming: it can improve the quality of eggshell in laying hens and extend the peak laying period; promote growth in broiler chickens, enhance meat quality, and reduce the incidence of ascites and mortality rates.
In ruminants: promotes rumen development, enhances fiber-degrading capacity, and increases milk yield and milk fat percentage.
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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