Exploring the creative options with ‘time framed task’ that are within our control would be the assured keys for us to emerge as the winners with profitable poultry farming.

Such ignited thinking is ‘must & urgent’ during current pandemic situation and it’s inter-related scenes, ‘shuttling the market dynamics drastically.

Consistency -A great ‘Y’ factor

Poultry industry’s today’s challenge is not just feeding the quality feed ingredients but ensuring to feed the birds with the similar quality ingredients with consistency.

Such consistent practices can help us scoring new heights in farm economics within short duration.

Less – nutritive feed supplements – Amazing BIOTECH tools

Grossly, we concentrate into making top class feed formulation with high quality feed ingredients for ensuring good numbered nutritional values.

In addition, if we equally look for biotech options as less-nutritive feed supplements’ with exploring attitude, many ways will be paved us for hassle free poultry farming.

Tiny tools yield huge benefits

Among the micro level ‘less-nutritive feed supplements’ like Trace Minerals, Amino Acids, Vitamins and Choline etc., It can be always given top priority to Vitamins, because of their important roles as ‘supplements’ start from the 1st hour of chicken till the end.

Feeding the birds’ the high quality vitamins consistently is vital as they have many complexed roles to play in the metabolic pathways of protein, carbohydrate and fat etc. and can ensure the farmer next level of farming.

Such habits are like a vision to look forward beyond horizons.

Yo-Yo birds

Today’s poultry birds are like 20-20 cricket match players in comparison to yesteryears’ classic match cricket players for fitness vs performance.

Yesteryears’ birds were challenged for performance; however today’s birds are to achieve the time framed tasks with performance underlined.

Hence, undoubtedly today’s birds need that extra nutrition by all means

Yesteryears’ luxury Vitamins are today’s essential & mandatory tools

Bench marking yesteryear’s practice of adding/topping individual vitamins to the birds either as oral liquids or feed additives with today’s supplementing composite vitamin premix through feed is incomparable and so the signs or symptoms of the deficiency of vitamins. These days it’s very rare to find symptoms/signs of single vitamin deficiency in a poultry farm.

However it’s very common to notice the deficiencies of one or more (complexed and/or combination) vitamins especially stunted performance with unknown aetiologies.

A brief review of general concepts with current scenario of vitamin deficiency

Few common Vitamin Deficiencies

Vitamins’ inter-relationship

Vitamins have strong interrelationship in their metabolisms, which makes these wonderful composites’ unique and their bonding compliments one another as a composition.

This interrelationship of vitamins plays an important role during their metabolism which has been proven with many clinical studies.

Hence, a balanced composition of vitamins is more appropriate and valuable than counting the individual vitamins alone.

• For an example Calcium D Pantothenic Acid (CDP) & Cyanocobalamin (B 12) have interrelationship in their metabolisms
• Close relationship exists between B12 and Folic Acid.

Vitamin Antagonists

Intestinal absorption of micro-nutrients plays crucial role in chicken due to its short Gastro-Intestinal Tract (GIT).

Retarded, low quality Myco-Toxin binders present in the feed would play a ‘negative role’ in binding and destroying vitamins indirectly as ‘Vitamin Antagonists’ and directly by binding them in the GIT.

Many studies have proved that Sulpha drugs interact with vitamins and can play anti-vitamin roles in GIT

Hence, its equally important to use a good quality toxin binder to get the best results out of vitamins and try to avoid using sulpha drugs unless it’s very essential.

Quality – The X factor

Supplementing quality vitamins with consistency certainly can accelerate the farm economics at a regular phase.

Conclusion

With the above current factors, the equation of vitamins in the poultry feed needs a fresh approach today and this write up can be concluded with the following points.

• Less-nutritive micro-nutrients’ are great biotech tools for healthy farming
• Composed vitamins the ‘less-nutritive micro-nutrients’ are more than feed supplements. They are great biotech tools for healthy farm economics
• Composition and the combination of vitamins are more decisive factors than the numbers of one or other vitamins
• Finally the ‘composite vitamins’ are more worthy and serious biotech tools than just glance them superficially as commodities of branded generics.

For more details, contact Dr. Ram Moorthy D., Email: rammoorthy.d@zagro.com, Phone: +91 97910 34754

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