Globigen Jump Start usage as a replacer for blood plasma in prestarter feed for piglets
Abstract
At the current stage of development of the feed industry a lot of feed additives are used for animal feeding. Everyone knows that period of piglet’s weaning from sows is always the most critical in the process of pigs’ raising. The further result of fattening depends on this period. Therefore, it is important that the diet is adapted to the age of the piglets and the development of their digestive tract. In recent years, either in the world or in Ukraine, the African swine fever (ASF) has become a widespread disease, leading to the decline and closure of a number of pig farms. This prompted the process of safe feed preparation review, and especially the use of a number of make up feed ingredient. The risk group includes porcine blood plasma and its products, which since 2018 have been temporarily banned for use in pig feed in China and a number of European countries. A positive factor in this is the reduction of new outbreaks of this disease. But the lack of blood plasma in prestarter feed for piglets can lead to reduced productivity of piglets due to the lack of animal protein, reduced feed intake, as blood plasma affects the taste of feed. The article presents the results of the feed additive Globigen Jump Start use instead of blood plasma in pre-starter feed for piglets from birth to 42 days of age and in the conditions of industrial inspection. It was found that the replacement of , blood plasma in pre-starter feed for suckling piglets and piglets after weaning for feed additive Globigen Jump Start contributed to an increase in daily intake by 6 g or by 2.6 %. At the same time, the cost of feed per weight gain 1 kg decreased in the experimental group by 7.89 %. As a result of industrial testing when replacing blood plasma with immunological feed additive in the ratio of 42 kg to 2 kg, respectively, has a significant economic impact on the cost of prestarter feed. This has a positive effect on the piglets' eating and digestibility of feed, which is reflected in better average daily gains, final weight and improved feed conversion and piglet safety.
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