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| What are the typical feed additives in animals' diets and rations? |
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Definition
Nutritive additives
-trace mineral or vitamin premixes
Non-nutritive additives
-exogenous enzyme supplements
-feed antibiotics premix
-ractopamine
-growth promoters |
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Term
| What are the typical feed supplements in animals' diets and rations? |
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Definition
Nutritive Supplements
-animal fat-oil blend
-iodized salt
-limestone
-crystalline essential AA
Non-Nutritive Supplements
-prebiotic supplements e.g. inulin
-viscous soluble fibre
-mycotoxin binders
-purified cellulose |
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Term
| What are the differences between feed additives and supplements? |
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Definition
Additive: improves/alters performance or digestibility but doesn't meet a nutritional requirement
Supplement: meets a defined nutritional requirement to optimize performance |
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Term
| What are the major bulky feed ingredients in compound feeds? |
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Definition
| feeds that carry energy, protein/AA, starch and fibres and occupy the major volume in diets and rations such as processed corn grain, SBM, canola meal etc. |
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Term
| Why do feed additives as premix products require a carrier material during formulation and manufacturing? |
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Definition
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Term
| Why does the business of feed additive & supplements have a larger profit margin than compound feed manufacturing? |
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Definition
-additives & supplements are lower in volume, easier and cheaper to ship
-required in all diets/feeds because they are found at low levels
-can be sold at local, national or international level
-compound feeds have a larger volume because of bulky feed ingredients, more costly and challenging to ship
-targeted to local market typically |
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