Overview of the year 2022

After an exciting year 2021, we are now looking forward to the new year 2022.

We at MIAVIT are looking forward to an exciting and challenging year 2022, which comes over with changes, but also with innovative solutions, especially in the field of animal nutrition.

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Merry Christmas

and a happy new year!

When everything is beautifully decorated for Christmas, it is time for us to send our Christmas greetings...

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Key facts about zinc

Zinc in a nutshell

Zinc is an essential trace element in animal feed and therefore worth taking a closer look to its’ special characteristics: The many functions of zinc indicate the importance of a needs-based care for the health, fertility and performance of animals. Eyes, bones, liver and hair are especially rich in zinc.

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There is no need to overzinc

Zinc in poultry

Zinc is a trace element indispensable for poultry. It plays an important role in many metabolic processes and helps in the development of skin, feathers, eggshell and bones. It is essential for growth as well as reproduction and forms part of some antioxidant enzymes like superoxide dismutase.

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How oxidation can affect eggs quality?

It is well described in scientific literature how oxidized raw materials and feedstuffs could negatively influence egg quality.

By the use of the proper mixture and quantity of antioxidants in the right moment, those oxidation processes that occurs specially in oils, fats and high energy feedstuffs could be avoid.

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It’s all about eggs!

The health of hens is of central importance for a high laying performance and a strong eggshell.

The liver plays an important role in this, as it performs a variety of vital functions. All nutrients are transported via the blood from the digestive tract to the liver, where they are stored, transformed or transported further.

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FEED MANAGMENT

Training by MIAVIT

The use of pharmacological doses of ZnO is an effective solution used by producers to maintain high piglet performance parameters and prevent and reduce the occurrence of post-weaning diarrhea.

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Advantages and Challenges applying Liquids

Training by MIAVIT

Poultry usually consumes twice as much water than feed. Water not only serves as the most important nutrient, but impacts nearly every crucial physiological function inside the body.

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FEED MANAGEMENT

Training by MIAVIT

In the next session of our feed management training, we will talk about major differences which exist among sheep farms around the world as sheep production has a variety of production models allowing it to adapt to various contexts. 

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Liquids in livestock

Why liquids in livestock?

Liquids are a fast and effective way to respond to problems in livestock compared to compound feed:

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Botanicals, same same but different

Part 2

Natural is always better! This is the common opinion of many consumers when it comes to the use of additives such as essential oils, flavours and extracts. But what do these three terms actually mean and is it really true that “chemical” is bad? To answer this question, let’s consider the example of the increasingly popular essential oils and aromas.

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Always stay cool

MiaHeatProtection a nutritional solution

Did you know that poultry and pigs can not sweat? For heat dissipation they rely on panting and pigs also over the snout for thermal regulation.

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