Can the new feed grade calcium formate improve the healthy development of the gastrointestinal tract of pigs?

 In modern large-scale pig production, the stocking density is too large and the growth rate is too fast. The pig herd is often in a highly stressed state, resulting in imbalance of the intestinal flora. The intestine is not only the main place for animal digestion and absorption, but also the body's largest immune organ. The pig feed additive calcium formate maintains the good development and health of the intestines and plays an extremely important role in resisting pathogenic infections.

From the perspective of improving intestinal development and health, the following aspects can be considered:

1. Feed grade calcium formate can reduce the intestinal damage factors in the diet: such as reducing the dietary antigen content (low soybean meal or soybean protein product with low soybean antigen), reducing mycotoxin pollution, etc. Intestinal damage caused by intestinal allergic reaction is a prerequisite for piglet diarrhea caused by infection with pathogenic bacteria such as E. coli. Feed grade calcium formate can lower the pH of the diet and lower the pH in the stomach, promote the conversion of pepsinogen into pepsin, and protect the gastrointestinal tract.

2. Provide nutrition for intestinal development (gut-friendly nutrients): dietary supplementation of glutamine, butyrate, and nucleotides can provide nutrients and matrix for the proliferation of intestinal epithelial cells, promote intestinal development, and accelerate intestinal damage Repair afterwards. The calcium content of calcium formate is as high as 31%, which not only can supplement calcium to animals, but also release trace amounts of formic acid in animals. Compared with acidifiers such as citric acid, it will not deliquesce in the feed production process and has good fluidity.

3. Strengthen the exercise of the intestinal tract: The diet increases the slow fermented insoluble fiber, which can increase the movement of the intestine and promote the development of the intestine. However, increasing soluble fiber may be detrimental to the intestinal development of young animals (such as suckling piglets).

Additive calcium formate can enhance animal disease resistance and reduce disease, and it is an important way to solve the difficulties of breeding in the breeding industry. Adding 1.3% of the feed calcium formate can improve the feed conversion rate by 7-8%, not to mention the decrease in feed consumption, but also the daily gain of 9-13%, reducing the stress of weaned piglets.

4. Elimination of immunosuppressive factors: even lower doses of mycotoxins can produce immunosuppression on the body. Therefore, it is necessary to minimize the contamination of feed with mycotoxins. When the degree of mycotoxins contamination in feed cannot be determined (usually mycotoxins are difficult to detect), adding calcium formate to feed is also one of the feasible methods.

Feed grade calcium formate can ensure the health of the gastrointestinal tract of pigs, not only can provide abundant nutrients for the normal physiological function, growth, development and reproduction of the animal body, but also provide strong immune protection.