GalliFirst
In commercial hatcheries, chicks hatch over a wide hatching window, depriving them from feed and water for up to 72 hours. This may result in a sub-optimal development of the skeleton, the gastro-intestinal tract, central immune system and other vital organs, and thus lots of slow or no starters in the flock. In addition, young birds are highly susceptible to infections, resulting in leg problems and a high mortality rate.
Introduction
Given the hatchlings’ high vulnerability to stressors, pathogens, and feed and water deprivation, there is only one thing more important than using an adequate starter feed. That is finding the right feed and feeding strategy for the specific needs of every flock. That is why with GalliFirst, Earlyfeed offers you an adaptive concept in terms of composition, form, application and duration. This way, we tailor the nutritional balance of our feed to match conditions such as climate, breed, production system and management level of the barn.
Energy boost
GalliFirst is a highly digestible feed and as such can be very readily taken up by the young chicks, assuring fast and efficient energy intake and nutrient availability. This ensures that chicks stay vital and continue consuming feed, needed for their further development.
Early digestion
The low amount of antinutritional factors present in Galli Crunch combined with highly digestible feed ingredients enable the young chicks - having lower activity of digestive enzymes - to digest the feed very efficiently. This leads to better growth and development of the gastro-intestinal tract, which is essential for optimal feed digestion and nutrient assimilation. Also, the residual yolk is taken up more quickly with birds fed GalliFirst, as feed present in the digestive system stimulates the peristaltic movements and increases the yolk sac utilization. This results in less yolk sac inflammation and the use of the valuable yolk as protection instead of an energy source.
Defence shield
Hatchlings are very susceptible to pathogens. Circulating maternal antibodies can help protecting the birds, but only against microbes similar to those previously encountered by the hen. To counteract this and the immature adaptive immune system and poorly developed gastro-intestinal tract of young birds, a synergistic blend of functional feed ingredients is added to the GalliFirst concept. Medium-chain fatty acids combined with other highly antibacterial and immune modulating ingredients will help the chicks to get a stable microflora and. Several public trials have shown, that an early feeding reduces mortality and increases uniformity in your flock.
Antioxidant optimization
The hatching process is very demanding on the chicks and may deplete several important nutrients, including anti- oxidants. The inclusion of anti-oxidative molecules in the pre-starter will overcome this issue and helps the birds to cope with stressors better.
Pellet quality
Hatchlings have difficulties consuming feed particles that are too large relative to the dimensions of their beak. GalliFirst is presented as a 2mm crumble and stands out in terms of pellet quality. As such the loss of product is minimized and homogenous uptake by the birds is assured. Once ingested, the small pellets easily disintegrate in the crop and stomach and nutrients become readily available to the young chicks.
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The Earlyfeed product range is based on the product lines that were formerly known as Nuscience's young animal nutrition portfolio. |
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