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ACiFIS: organic acids for livestock production.

Enhancing PRODUCTIVITY through feed digestibility.

grafico: relazione tra pH e crescita batterica

An optimal feed formulation is essential for high livestock productivity, but high standards of hygiene are also required in order to exploit the full nutritional potential of feed.

 

The use of organic acids in feed prevents microbial activity and thus ensures a high level of nutritional quality.

Even the best feed, however, cannot guarantee the desired performance if the digestive system is unbalanced.

 

The use of organic acids promotes the proper functioning of the gastrointestinal tract safely and quickly. Acidification principally ensures:

  • the reduction of gastric pH.
  • the control of bacteria in the intestine, inhibiting harmful coliforms in favor of beneficial lactobacilli.

 

ACiFIS in swine production: ACiFIS FL.

Problems during weaning have a big impact on production performance. It is common at this stage to have a mortality rate between 3 and 15%. The main factor Maialini is the development of the gastrointestinal tract of piglets.

During weaning, indeed, the digestive tract is not yet fully developed. This leads to inadequate acidification, non-optimal digestion of ingested food and the proliferation of E. coli responsible for severe diarrhoea.
The use of antibiotics to prevent this is often insufficient, because the antibiotic resistance developed by bacteria is becoming increasingly widespread. It is therefore necessary to use other strategies to improve the digestion process and prevent problems.

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ACiFIS in poultry production: ACiFIS MT.

Acidifiers for use in poultry feed need to be adapted to the anatomical and physiological characteristics of the gastrointestinal tract of chickens. First of all, hydrochloric acid and pepsinogen are secreted in the proventriculus in greater quantities than in mammals.

Galline allevate a terraAnother difference is the transit time of food through the digestive tract. All of this makes the acidification strategy used for swine inapplicable for chickens.

In avian species, acidification essentially performs a selection on the intestinal microflora, stimulating the growth of lactic acid bacteria at the expense of coliform bacteria.

It is therefore essential to use acids that reach the gut intact. F.I.S. has employed all of its skill and experience to develop a product that is tailor-made for this type of application.

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ACiFIS MBL: in drinking water, serum and liquid feed.

One aspect of farming businesses that is often overlooked is water quality. Water in fact carries populations of yeast, algae and bacteria that pollute pipes, block watering troughs and cause intestinal infections such as diarrhoea. To reduce its microbial load, the pH of drinking water must be brought to between 3.8 and 4.0.
ACiFIS MBL has been specially created for this purpose: adding it to drinking water at a percentage between 0.1 and 0.4% (with a meter pump) will optimize its pH value and prevent the proliferation of bacteria.
ACiFIS MBL is also recommended as a serum and liquid feed stabilizer. To maintain the characteristics of serum, we suggest adding ACiFIS MBL at 0.1-0.3%, depending on storage duration.
The use of ACiFiS MBL in liquid feed is recommended to prevent the fermentation of feed residues in pipes and basins. This will help prevent diarrhoea, bloating and high mortality rates.
You can use ACiFIS MBL in liquid feed on a daily basis (0.1-1.5% of product in the basin) or on a weekly basis (2-3% of product in the rinse water, leaving the mixture to act until the subsequent food ration).

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ACiFIS CI: feed acidifier.

ACiFIS CI is a product that has been specifically developed for use as a feed acidifier, whose high volatility makes it easy to use. ACiFIS CI can be applied using a metering pump, with the spray unit installed in the mixer, in order to acidify feed before use. The operating manual for our pump, the STANDARD Q./Spray, provides full details on use.

We recommend adding ACiFIS CI to feed at 0.25 - 1.0%.

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New Products in ACiFIS line.

In a changing market, one of the main objectives of F.I.S. is to listen carefully to the needs of its customers in the feed production and breeding sectors and provide them with effective and innovative solutions. Our efforts in this regard have resulted in three new products, which have been developed with specific characteristics and purposes:

 

ACiFIS SM.

New product, containing medium-chain fatty acids. Twan Van Gerwe, a researcher at Utrecht University, has studied the effects of adding medium-chain fatty acids to feed for broilers and found that animals fed with feed to which a percentage of medium-chain fatty acids was added, were less likely to become contaminated by bacteria.
The addition of these fatty acids in pig feed increases resistance to pathogenic bacteria and in particular to E. coli.
This is due to the lowering of the pH in the intestine and the fact that these acids appear to promote gastric emptying and increase the contractions of the small intestine.

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ACiFIS OE.

A new formulation containing organic acids and essential oils. The bacteriostatic/bactericidal activity of certain plants has been proven. Dietary usage of plant extracts promotes animal health, protecting the intestinal mucosa and reducing the incidence of bacterial infections.
In laboratory tests, it was found that dietary supplementation with a mixture of organic acids and essential oils reduced damage from Gram (-) and Gram (+) in infected rabbits.
In pigs, it led to a significantly better performance due to the stabilizing effect on the gastro-intestinal flora and stimulation of the immune system.
In sows the following benefits of better digestion were observed:

  • average daily consumption of 0.5 kg feed more during the lactation;
  • less weight loss ;
  • an average of 0.5 more piglets weaned;
  • higher weaning weights;
  • more homogeneous litters;
  • decrease of stillborn piglets.

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ACiFIS C4.

This product contains butyric acid and sodium butyrate. Butyric acid is a short-chain acid and as such is absorbed in the intestine and conveyed directly to the liver via the portal vein.
Butyrate is, along with glutamine, the major energy source for colonocytes and therefore has a positive effect on their growth and maturation.
Meanwhile, butyrate deficiency causes atrophy of the mucosa.
Like all short-chain fatty acids, it also has an anti-inflammatory effect.
Finally, butyrate has a positive effect on the absorption of sodium in the gut, since it influences the distribution of intracellular and extracellular water, and is therefore useful in the treatment of post-weaning diarrhoea in piglets .

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