Product category: <span>Additives</span>
Vitamin D
Vitamin D governs calcium and phosphorus absorption and their deposition into bone and eggshell. In housed animals with no meaningful sunlight exposure, dietary supply is the only supply, which is why it is universal in intensive production. It is supplied as D3, cholecalciferol, in stabilised beadlet form. Poultry cannot use the D2 form efficiently, so […]
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is the primary lipid soluble antioxidant in animal tissue, protecting cell membranes from oxidative damage. It is closely linked with selenium, and a shortfall in either shows as similar muscle and immune problems. In feed it is supplied as stabilised alpha tocopheryl acetate, which is far more stable through pelleting and storage than […]
Vitamin K3
Vitamin K is required for blood clotting. Ruminants and, to a degree, other species obtain some from gut microbial synthesis, but that supply is unreliable under antibiotic treatment, coccidiosis challenge or any condition that disturbs the gut flora, which is when deficiency appears. The feed grade form is menadione, supplied as a stabilised salt such […]
Encapsulated Vitamin C
Ascorbic acid is synthesised by most farmed species, so it is not a classical dietary requirement, but that synthesis falls short under heat, transport, disease and other stress. Supplementation is aimed at those windows rather than at routine nutrition. Unprotected ascorbic acid is destroyed quickly by moisture, heat and trace minerals, so the encapsulated or […]
Dihydroxyvitamin D3
Hydroxylated vitamin D3 metabolites bypass part of the conversion the liver and kidney normally perform on ordinary cholecalciferol. That matters most when the animal is young, growing very fast, or under a challenge that impairs that conversion. In practice it is used in broilers for skeletal development and leg strength, and in layers for shell […]
Magnesium Oxide
Magnesium oxide is the standard supplemental magnesium source and doubles as a rumen buffer. In dairy cattle it is used to prevent grass tetany on lush spring pasture and to stabilise rumen pH in high concentrate rations. Reactivity, not just magnesium content, determines how well it performs as a buffer, and reactivity depends on calcination. […]
Calcium Chloride
Calcium chloride is used in ruminant nutrition mainly as an anionic salt. In the weeks before calving it lowers the dietary cation anion difference, which primes calcium mobilisation and reduces the incidence of milk fever. It is unpalatable and strongly hygroscopic, so it is normally used within a formulated anionic blend rather than fed straight. […]
Calcium Formate
Calcium formate delivers both formic acid and calcium in a dry, non corrosive, easy handling form. The acid fraction lowers gastric pH and suppresses coliforms and salmonella; the calcium contributes to mineral supply. It is used chiefly in piglet diets around weaning, where gastric acid production has not caught up with the switch to solid […]
Sodium Chloride
Feed grade salt supplies sodium and chloride, both required for acid base balance, nerve function and the maintenance of appetite. Sodium deficiency shows first as reduced feed intake. In practice salt is also the carrier and diluent of choice for trace mineral premixes, and in ruminant systems it is used to regulate intake of free […]
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