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Cinnamon – pamper your animals especially during cold days

November 22, 2021December 8, 2021

Cinnamon is much more than a spice to be added to your cookies. Despite being popular in EU, Cinnamon had a super long journey from Southeast Asia to Europe in ancient times.

At XVET, we have Cinnacid, with great synergy in between cinnamaldehyde and organic acids. This synergy will help to boost the feed quality and reduce the pathogen pressure in the gut.

Let’s take a look at step-by-step look on how cinnamon can improve animal health.

Technical Article

Trace elements – key to success?

July 29, 2021July 8, 2022

Nowadays, it is well accepted in nutrition & animal sciences that trace minerals (zinc, copper and manganese, iron, iodine, selenium) are crucial for the maintenance of health, antioxidant protection, improvement of performance and reproduction in livestock and companion animals.

Well-known examples include, for example, the need for iron for hemoglobin in young mammals, the use of selenium for its antioxidative capacity in all life stages or the usage of zinc to maintain skin health by supporting epithelia regeneration. For these functions to be optimal, it is important to consider trace element sources of high bioavailability.

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Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry, A Peruvian…

August 29, 2019October 7, 2019

Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry, A Peruvian Experience

Even though antibiotic growth promoters (AGP) are allowed to be widely used in the Peruvian poultry industry, some big broiler and layer companies have started new approaches in order to replace the AGP by novel alternatives like nutraceuticals, which include probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids and their salts and plant extracts among others.

This new trend reveals the awareness of the threat of irrational use of antibiotics in food animals which are dangerous for human health (public concern) and showing the importance that how poultry and livestock are raised.

We in VHD Sanidad Animal started to move toward this trend in 2012 when signed an agreement with XVET Germany in order to introduce it´s products as AGP alternatives (NAGP).

Technical Article

Zincotin is enhancing breeder performance

July 17, 2019August 30, 2019

Zincotin is enhancing breeder performance

The effect of Zincotin, XVET Germany on broiler breeder performances was estimated in this study.

The experiment was done at a broiler breeder farm in North of Iran. 30.278 birds (Arbor Acres Plus) were evaluated in 8 houses of this farm from week 40 to 67 of the production period. The experimental farm consists of 3 houses as treatment group (Zincotin) and 5 houses as control. All houses had similar conditions and with the density (Birds in every square meter) of 6.04.

The number of hens in the treatment and control group were 10.932 and 17.368 respectively. This groups had 765 and 1213 roosters in treatment and control groups as well. Even though the sex ratio at week 26 (Before starting the experiment) was 8.2% the experiment started with the Female to male ratio (⚤) of 6% for both treatment and control group. Environmental situation, diseases, spiking and available healthy roosters in the farm were affecting the designed ⚤.

Technical Article

Biosecurity is key to harmony

May 23, 2019August 30, 2019

Biosecurity is key to harmony

Commercial livestock production has been increasing due to the high demand for food, however, this could also increase health problems both for livestock and humans if not made under the right conditions such as the right animal density per house and good management. Obviously, health complications are reducing efficiency in production and have a negative effect on turnover and general economy therefore, the disease must be controlled precisely. There are several treatments which could help disease control but none of the treatments would be effective without having good biosecurity strategies in the farm.

Biosecurity is key to control and reduce diseases in a farm and consequently reduce the overuse of antibiotics. Simply, biosecurity is helping to reduce the antibiotic resistance threat and increasing animal welfare by blocking and suppressing disease challenges with precise control (management) and obeying good hygiene and security strategies.

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Cinnamon – pamper your animals especially during cold days

Trace elements – key to success?

Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry, A Peruvian…

Alternatives to Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry, A Peruvian Experience

This new trend reveals the awareness of the threat of irrational use of antibiotics in food animals which are dangerous for human health (public concern) and showing the importance that how poultry and livestock are raised.

We in VHD Sanidad Animal started to move toward this trend in 2012 when signed an agreement with XVET Germany in order to introduce it´s products as AGP alternatives (NAGP).

Zincotin is enhancing breeder performance

Zincotin is enhancing breeder performance

The effect of Zincotin, XVET Germany on broiler breeder performances was estimated in this study.

Biosecurity is key to harmony

Biosecurity is key to harmony

In a farm, there are two different types of biosecurity’: Terminal and Continuous Biosecurity.