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New feed additive could benefit livestock industry

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A newly developed feed additive is showing promise for poultry producers.  Kevin Roche, president and CEO of Carmel, Indiana based ProBiotstatin Livestock says they’ve developed an all-natural product to improve the delivery of livestock probiotics.  “We took the new probiotic lactic yeast and married it with what we call a facilitator to help uptake all those nutrients and formed ProBiostatin Livestock,” he says.

After several tests, he says the results have been positive. “After nine months of studying the product in real-life terms, we had healthier chicks,” he says.  “Chicks that get to weight in 20 percent less time.  We also had less deaths.”

Roche tells Brownfield tests have shown the product has also been increasingly beneficial in colder temperatures.  “Because of increasing the chicks immune system with the good probiotic in its system we’ve been able to have healthier birds with less mortality,” he says.

Part of the product’s evolution, he says, came from consumer demand. “Our estimates is that the organic or all-natural market, which are two different entities, have moved up from 1 or 2 percent to about 8 percent,” he says.  “You’re seeing more and more pushes to that market than ever before.”

Roche says testing has also been done with beef cattle at Texas A&M and in swine at the University of Missouri.

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