Model MAXLAC - Well-Proven Gut Flora Stabilizer

• Forms a biological protective lining in the digestive tract
• Supports a healthy gut flora population
• Inhibits undesirable microorganisms

PROBIOTICS FOR PRODUCTIVITY

Dietary probiotic supplementation has become increasingly important in recent years due to a steady reduction in antibiotic usage. The major commercially available probiotic products for animal nutrition include lactic acid bacteria, spore-forming organisms and yeast strains. A healthy intestinal tract is crucial for superior performance in today’s monogastrics and ruminants because maximum productivity demands require high levels of feed intake and feed efficiency. Probiotic bacterial cultures are key elements of modern feeding programs in livestock and poultry production as they have a regulatory and stabilizing function in the intestinal track. Their main effect is to stimulate desirable bacteria in the intestinal flora and to protect the intestine from undesirable microorganisms. Since it is commonly known that microbiota health is strongly correlated to the immune status of the gut, it may be concluded that probiotics give rise to a healthy immune system and promote optimum animal performance.

A MULTI-PRONGED STRATEGY

Supplementing with lactic acid bacteria helps deliver improved animal performance, and there are synergistic effects when MAXLAC products are combined with other products from our portfolio. For example, combining probiotics and acids has been shown to provide benefits in broiler chicken and pig nutrition. Figure 1 shows improvement in feed conversion and daily gain of weanling piglets when their diets were supplemented with MAXLAC and medium-chain fatty acids (MCFA) from the MAXACID product range. Combining dietary MCFA and probiotic supplementation in weanling pigs are efficacious alternatives to antibiotics to improve health status and performance.