AB Vista launches online dietary fibre calculator to help nutritionists optimise animal diets.
AB Vista has launched a free tool to assist nutritionists as they formulate animal diets. The dietary fibre calculator uses average values of global raw materials to calculate the dietary fibre content (plus other more in-depth fibre parameters) of finished animal feed.
The calculator offers the option of entering up to 28 different raw materials, along with the daily total intake in kg, to show the fibre composition of the feed and the daily fibre intake in either a data or graphic view.
Xaviere Rousseau, AB Vista Global Technical Support Manager, says: “As feed additive specialists, we know that the role of fibre in monogastric diets can be misunderstood and that achieving the optimum fibre fraction can be challenging, even for experienced nutritionists.
“We have designed this calculator to be a straightforward, easy to accessway to assess the total dietary fibre content of finished feed.”
The parameters within the calculator represent the values that are available within AB Vista’s new Dietary Fibre analysis service, part of the company’s comprehensive NIR offering. The calculator is accessible at: abv-calculators.com/fibre
For more information, contact AB Vista on +44(0)1672 517 650 or www.abvista.com/contactus. Follow AB Vista on Twitter: @ABVista.
AB Vista is a global feed additive business bringing pioneering products and technical services to the poultry, swine, ruminant and aquaculture sectors. Since its launch in 2005 the company has become a highly respected global player with top three market share positions in its core segments. The business uses its innovative product research, technical services and nutrition expertise to gather global insights that can be used to provide new ways of thinking to feed compounders, integrators and pre-mixers. With over 25 years’ experience in the NIR field and a global network of laboratories able to analyse feed samples, AB Vista provides the tools and expertise to allow its customer to better balance their ingredients. AB Vista is headquartered in the UK, with regional offices located in the USA, Brazil, Singapore, Spain, India, China, Germany and Finland.
current shocking prices of Soya crossing Rs. 50/- per kg due to various global and national factors. He said that poultry sector cannot be in isolation in the present context because corn and soya availability and price is influenced by weather conditions in Brazil, Argentina, USA and India on an annual basis. The present observations are severe wet conditions in Brazil preventing the harvest, high dry weather in Argentina reducing the crop, extended lean season in US with stocks completely exhausted. Local issues like unforeseen rains in MP and Maharashtra during Nov., 2020 made Soya to suffer fungal infection forcing millers to crush the grain to create soya meal which was exported due to global lucrative demand. This observation set the note for further discussions. The present global crisis of grounding of ship “Ever Green” in Suez Canal impacting global movement of goods across Asia and Europe was also brought out.
Prof. Ajit S. Ranade, Associate Dean, Mumbai Veterinary College and subject matter expert on Nutrition was the Guest of Honour. In his address he appreciated the efforts of CPDO&TI in designing innovative programmes especially the release of CPDO&TI app to keep abreast with the technology. He emphasized importance of nutrition and research to exploit fullest genetic potential of the bird for the specific purpose of meat output, egg production or hatching eggs production in India matching international standards.
Green Revolution and White Revolution putting the facts of achievement in broiler sector which has grown 1825 times and layer sector 55 times since independence. He illustrated phenomenal achievement of development in broiler nutrition attaining 2 kg body wt. with efficient FCRs of 1.4 to 1.5 in 32 days.
number output, least cost formulations, altering feed formulations according to the market. These are some of the errors committed by breeders with a skewed approach. He suggested to consider breeder nutrition as an “Investment” for the future broiler chicks rather than expenditure for the present breeder farm.
country servicing not only layer farmers of Namakkal with a capacity of 5 crore layers in the district but also extending services across the country. In his presentation he shared the impact of changes of temperature on layer egg production. He advised feed intake of more than 100gm pre summer for the growers with uniform body wt. in the flock can influence to get optimum performance with egg weights over and above 55 gm in the layers in comparison to reduction in production for the birds which are fed less than 100gm with un-uniform body weights in the flock. He also narrated the availability of maize and soya presently with 30 MMTs and 8 MMTs respectively in India. Keeping in view of the growth of broilers and layers he suggested additional 2 – 3 MMTs of maize and 1 MMTs of soya requirement for the next year which sounds alarming and scary for the poultry sector. The sector has to resolve to find alternate source of energy and protein as an essentiality in the future. The layer nutrition has to cope up with the highest potential of the bird and the performance in the field. In order to do this, the need of the layer industry is to focus on better uniformity and better body wt. before the laying period, early egg start in egg size and egg percentage, touching the peak in time and sustaining it and sustain post peak maintenance without much egg shell problems. He presented a slide on distribution of modern layers across India with 8.5 crore in Andhra and Telangana, 5 crore in Tamilnadu, 4 crores in Punjab and Haryana, 2 crores in Odisha, 1.4 crore in Karnataka followed by Maharashtra 1 crore, West Bengal 80 lakhs, totally 25.5 crore population including the rest of the States.
stress factors causing “oxidative stress” by release of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) which can impact performance, gut health, liver function and immunity of the bird. He illustrated the danger of “Feeding Excess” over “Feeding Less” by pointing out under feeding during starters and over feeding during grower and finisher stage with respect to energy. Similarly, overfeeding during starter, optimum feeding during grower stage and under feeding during finisher with respect to proteins. This he said that need to change and farmers are advised to follow precision feeding i.e., apt feeding as per the requirement. Further he said about a new truth of birds adoptability for high density rations very efficiently over the earlier belief of natural downgrading by the birds. He suggested calculation of Feed Price Ratio (FPR) (cost of 1kg feed to 1kg poultry product) as a new focus Area over mere calculation of body wt. and FCR.
consumer choice is leaned towards animal protein and it has reduced by about 2% in the choice of protein.
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