The use of feed grade L-Threonine makes livestock more productive, and in turn, high-yielding livestock puts forward higher restrictions on the formulators, requiring formulators to match balanced feed additives and provide nutrients that meet the needs to support the high yield of dairy cows. The effect of L-Threonine crystal determines its charm, but it is not a simple matter to maximize its use efficiency.
Here is the content list:
What outcomes can be achieved with L-Threonine for feed?
What are elements influencing the demand amount of L-Threonine?
How to maximize the positive effects of L-Threonine?
What outcomes can be achieved with L-Threonine for feed?
L-Threonine can improve output accomplishment, achieve protein deposition through different metabolic pathways, promote nitrogen absorption and utilization, and reduce pollution in the livestock industry, mainly due to its addition to achieve balance between elements.
For young livestock, such as piglets, the incidence and severity of diarrhea far exceed those in later stages. When the piglet’s food changes from liquid breast milk to solid feed, the digestive tract is not yet fully mature, and the acidification of the food is insufficient, leading to the decline of protein digestion and the proliferation of pathogenic microorganisms.
Using L-Threonine to limit the protein level in the feed helps reduce undigested protein reaching the lower digestive tract. Moreover, L-Threonine can reduce the pH of chyme to a certain extent, bringing it closer to the optimal pH.
L-Threonine crystal feed additive is easier to digest and is not conducive to the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms, which promotes the health of livestock.
For a long time, the protein levels in feed have been slowly increasing. At present, the protein content of most feeds has greatly exceeded the requirements of livestock.
Since one-sixth of the protein is composed of nitrogen, by using L-Threonine crystal to replace part of the protein in the feed, the amount of nitrogen excretion will be greatly reduced.
When using L-Threonine to formulate feed, regardless of the price trend of grains, the impact of soybean meal price fluctuations on feed costs can be limited to a minimum, thereby optimizing feed costs.
Replacing part of protein with feed grade L-Threonine not only reduces nitrogen emission, but also reduces energy loss. Every time excess protein exceeds 1%, the energy availability will be reduced by about 1%.
To put it more intuitively, the high-protein feed of L-Threonine is not used to feed the livestock, and the considerable protein in it needs to consume the livestock's own energy for digestion, which reduces the production of meat, eggs and milk.
This is because nitrogen is excreted in the form of urea, which contains energy; at the same time, when the undigested protein is excreted from the body, the amount of drinking water increases and excessive heat is generated, causing energy loss. If farmers use L-Threonine crystal, there will be no such concerns.
What are elements influencing the demand amount of L-Threonine?
There are many factors that affect the demand for L-Threonine in livestock. One of the most important factors is the availability in feed. L-Threonine added to different kinds of feed have different digestibility.
For example, basic feed based on corn and peanut meal have a true threonine digestibility rate of 81%, while the ones based on corn, wheat and sorghum are the true digestibility is 84.5%.
In addition, the utilization rate varies depending on processing conditions and other factors. Therefore, the feed formula formulated according to the past standards is prone to lack of L-Threonine.
If you change your mindset appropriately, designing and formulating livestock feed based on digestible threonine will benefit the use of feed, especially to promote the effective use of protein feed. At the same time, it can also reduce nitrogen excretion.
How to maximize the positive effects of L-Threonine?
However, the addition of excessive L-Threonine does not have a beneficial effect on the growth performance and product quality of livestock, and the relative shortage of other amino acids due to excessive L-Threonine will reduce the utilization of other amino acids and cause feed costs. Unfavorable results such as rising.
The protein level and L lysine hydrochloride level in the diet are important factors affecting the L-Threonine requirement. When the two are added in a certain ratio, it can reduce the requirements of the livestock on the level of dietary protein. However, adding L-Threonine to high-protein diets is difficult to achieve the desired effect.
This inspired us that not all animal feed must contain L-Threonine feed additives. If the feed itself can meet the requirements of animal growth or production, there is no need to add L-Threonine feed additives to the feed. Generally speaking, it is necessary to add crystal L-Threonine to corn peanut type and sorghum barley type feed.
In addition, vitamins, hormones, and fat types can affect the utilization of L-Threonine in livestock. Polifar Group reminds you that when adding L-Threonine, a comprehensive consideration must be given to formulate an efficient and economical feed. If you want the output of livestock to exceed the industry average, feed additive is a choice worth considering. We look forward to your consultation and order.