The Characteristics & Health Benefits of Adding Bacillus coagulans to Animal Feed (Part 2)
Bacillus coagulans mainly have the following health functions:
Promoting the digestion of nutrients:
After the nutrients ingested by animals enter the body, they need to undergo a series of physical and chemical reactions before they can be absorbed and utilized. Bacillus coagulans not only produce various digestive enzymes to promote the digestion and absorption of nutrients, but also directly produce various nutrients such as vitamins, amino acids, short chain fatty acids, etc. through its growth, reproduction, and colonization in the animal digestive tract. It significantly increases the speed of small intestine peristalsis and improves intestinal digestion function.
Improving animal immune function and enhancing disease resistance:
According to reports, adding a small amount of Bacillus coagulans to chicken feed or ornamental animal feed can enhance the disease resistance of chickens or ornamental animals, prevent infection with chicken blast disease and other diseases caused by microorganisms, and improve the survival rate of chickens. In addition, experiments conducted in countries such as the United States have confirmed that frequent consumption of chickens containing coagulants such as Bacillus subtilis significantly reduces the number of harmful microorganisms such as Salmonella in their chicken meat or eggs, thereby improving the safety level of poultry and egg products. In addition, Bacillus coagulans can also reduce animal blood lipids and prevent atherosclerosis; Reduce blood sugar levels and improve the phenomenon of impaired glucose tolerance; Improve the phagocytic ability of animal peritoneal macrophages and enhance phagocytic cell function; Enhance the activity of animal NK cells; Accelerate the development of animal immune organs, increase the number of T and B lymphocytes, improve the humoral and cellular immune levels of animals, and increase the liver and bursa of Fabricius coefficient of animals. In addition, it also has good therapeutic effects on animal colitis in clinical practice.
Research has found that promoting animal growth, reducing mortality rates and feed to weight ratios, and regularly feeding large livestock such as cattle and pigs with feed containing Bacillus coagulans can not only improve the utilization and conversion rate of cellulose feed, but also prevent diseases in large livestock and shorten storage time. Bacillus coagulans can also replace widely used antibiotics such as tetracycline hydrochloride, minocycline, and avermectin as "animal growth promoters", thus solving the long-standing problem of excessive antibiotic residues in livestock (poultry) meat that has plagued the breeding industry for many years.
The application feeding experiment of Tianjin Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Research Institute also showed that adding 100-300 mg/kg of Bacillus coagulans premix to broiler feed can increase the average daily weight gain of broiler chickens by about 5.5%, reduce the mortality rate by 15.2%, and decrease the feed to weight ratio by 7%; Adding the same dose of Bacillus coagulans to the feed of growing and fattening piglets resulted in an average weight gain of 4.9%, an average daily weight gain of 10.17%, and a decrease in feed to weight ratio of 6.6%.
