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Improving overall feed digestibility

Improving feed digestibility is essential for swine producers because it enhances animal performance and overall health.

  • Better feed digestibility boosts swine growth, health, and feed efficiency.
  • Antinutritional factors reduce nutrient absorption and digestibility. 

 

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Critical role of feed digestibility

Improved feed digestibility ensures better nutrient absorption, leading to enhanced growth rates, feed efficiency, and overall productivity.

For post-weaning piglets, piglets face diet changes, and their ability to digest plant-based proteins is not yet fully developed. Optimize digestibility is then crucial for rapid growth, immune development, and overall health.

For lactating sows, optimal feed digestibility is essential to support milk production and piglet growth. This is particularly important during this stage, as feed intake can reduce, causing sow weight loss and impairing milk production. 

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Antinutritional factors, a specific characteristic of raw materials

The diet of pigs is primarily based on cereals and protein meals. One key characteristic of these raw materials is the presence of antinutritional factors. These factors limit the full utilization of feed nutrients by restricting access to them, ultimately degrading digestibility.

Specifically, a typical diet contains around 20% undigestible fraction (NDF, Non-Digestible Fraction), mainly composed of fibers. Within fibers group, Non-Starch Polysaccharides (NSP) and Phytate negatively impact nutrient digestibility. They block 10 to 20% of nutrients, further reducing digestibility and decreasing energy and amino acid absorption. 

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Key figures

10 to 20%

10 to 20% of the nutrients in the diet are blocked by the undigestible fraction.

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3.3%

Multi-enzyme supplementation has shown an improvement of 3.3% in G:F, suggested by a better feed digestibility.

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26%

Phytase improved phosphorus digestibility by 26%, reducing its environmental release, a key benefit today.

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Related solutions

Product names and availability may vary by region, please contact your local Adisseo representative for more information.

Rovabio® Advance PHY
The second-generation feedase with a unique enzyme combination designed to extract more value from the feed.
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Rovabio® Excel
A multi-species, multi-ingredient and multi-application solution, Rovabio® Excel is a versatile enzymatic product.
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Rovabio® PhyPlus
Rovabio® PhyPlus increases phosphorus availability, improves feed digestibility and helps reduces feed costs.
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FRA LeciMax
Lysolecithins have proven their value in improving feed utilization and give the opportunity to decrease production costs by reformulating expensive diets while maintaining performance.
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Rovabio® Advance
Unique enzymatic profile, multi-carbohydrase with debranching enzymes tested under all the main conditions.
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Why choose our solutions?

At Adisseo, we have developed targeted expertise to address antinutritional factors that can interfere with nutrient absorption and digestive efficiency. Our nutritional solutions are designed to support feed digestibility and contribute to balanced growth and digestive function in swine.

  • Rovabio® Advance, with its unique multi-carbohydrase enzymatic profile including debranching enzymes, is formulated to function under a wide range of feeding conditions.
  • Rovabio® PhyPlus supports phosphorus availability and is part of our approach to optimizing nutrient release from feed components.
    With a focus on digestive support and feed utilization, Adisseo combines advanced enzyme technologies with technical services to help producers build efficient and tailored nutrition programs.

Contact us today to learn more about how our enzyme solutions can fit your feeding strategy.

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