In the era of low-profit broilers industry, how to reduce costs and increase efficiency to maximize profits？

Due to the impact of external factors such as the COVID-19 and difficulties in importing raw materials, the risk of the broiler breeding market is now relatively volatile, the market uncertainty is increasing, the market environment is changing rapidly, therefore broiler industry is facing huge pressure. The continuous rise in feed costs has led to a surge in feed prices, which has led to a high level of breeding costs, which has also brought great pressure to breeding and feed enterprises. Enterprises not only require survival, but also require long-term growth and development. "Scientific cost reduction and continuous efficiency increase" have become the fundamental needs for the survival of large-scale broiler breeding enterprises and feed enterprises.?

What ways can help reduce costs and increase efficiency?

1.?Alternatives to unconventional raw materials

(1)?Use brown rice, rice, imported barley, sorghum, etc. to replace part of corn, but pay attention to mildew, aging and other issues, and adjust nutritional indicators accordingly;

(2)?Add unconventional or cost-effective plant-based protein alternatives, such as amino acid residue, peanut meal, DDGS, feather meal, etc., but factors affecting the replacement of protein raw materials should be considered: (I) Differences in amino acid composition of raw materials: after replacing soybean meal, the amino acid balance of the formula needs to be considered; (II)Differences in amino acid digestibility of raw materials: The amino acid digestibility of raw materials is affected by many factors such as the type and age of animals, raw fiber level, protein structure, anti-nutritional factors, Maillard reaction and other factors;

(3)?Increase the use of protein raw materials with high cost performance, according to the experience of the formulator and the breed and stage of broilers, etc., to ensure the quality of the product, peanut meal can be added to 8%, corn gluten meal 7%, feather meal 2%, etc.

(4)?Adding bile acids can stabilize feed quality and increase the use of extremely valuable unconventional raw materials.

2.?Precise nutrition and optimized formula

(1)?Establish an accurate raw material database. For the same raw material, due to different origins, manufacturers, storage, processing methods, etc., nutritional indicators and metabolizable energy values may be very different. Therefore, raw materials entering the factory should be tested or submitted for inspection in time according to the items that should be inspected to avoid unnecessary losses and provide a basis for accurate nutrition.

(2)?The optimal nutrient concentration required by broilers varies according to the breed, breeding mode, rearing stage and local climate. Therefore, the formula is optimized according to the accurate raw material database to achieve the best nutrient concentration;

(3) Selecting functional additives reasonably, make full use of the functional characteristics of each type of additives, and add as needed to avoid re-use of homogeneous products. For example, bile acids can promote the synthesis of very low-density lipoprotein, promote the transport of liver fat to the outside of the liver, prevent the fatty liver, so the amount of choline chloride added in the formula can be reduced by 50%;

(3)?Reduce the insurance factor of some nutritional index parameters, such as adding bile acid, and use its characteristics of promoting the absorption and utilization of fat-soluble vitamins to reduce the addition amount of fat-soluble vitamins in the formula by 10%.

3.?Control feed quality and avoid losses caused by feed problems

(1)?Pay attention to the price fluctuation of feed raw materials, and control the purchase price, purchase time and purchase quantity. Taking the composition of broiler raw materials as an example, when the raw material fluctuates, we should focus on the value procurement and value utilization.

(2)?Pay attention to the quality of feed raw materials, such as mycotoxins contamination and unqualified oils and fats are common problems. If the raw material is unqualified, the feed quality is difficult to pass. Bile acids can accelerate the degradation of mycotoxins in raw materials and feed, and improve the utilization rate of oil. Therefore, the use of high-value and low-priced raw materials can be appropriately increased to reduce feed costs.

4.?Low-protein diets

Low-protein diets are also called ideal amino acid diets and precision amino acid diets. Based on scientific understanding of animal amino acid needs and amino acid supply of feed raw materials, synthetic amino acids are added to accurately meet the needs and balance of animal amino acids. A large number of studies have shown that under the ideal amino acid mode, by adjusting the amino acid supply mode, the supply can be as close to the actual demand as possible, and the crude protein level can be reduced without affecting the performance of broiler chickens. The study found that low-protein diets can improve FCR, reduce nitrogen excretion in manure, and improve the air quality of chicken houses compared with high-protein diets, which is beneficial to the growth of broilers. In addition, the low-protein diet significantly reduced the mortality rate of broilers. The reason may be that the protein content and energy level of the low-protein diet were lower than those of the high-protein diet, and the load on the growth and development of the broiler was less (Yang Chaojie, 2017). Low-protein diets supplemented with limiting amino acids can improve broiler growth performance (Ou Zhaolin et al., 2018). And under the premise of amino acid balance, low-protein diets have no adverse effects on the growth performance and slaughter performance of broilers, and can significantly reduce nitrogen emissions (Wang Sijia, 2015).

In the scheme of unconventional raw material replacement, Lachance bile acid can promote the secretion of a large amount of thin bile from liver cells, which is beneficial to the excretion of drugs, heavy metals, mycotoxins, endotoxins and other harmful substances in the bile, and then inactivated or eliminated from the body. In the gut, bile acids can bind to mycotoxins and enhance the ability of intestinal enzymes to degrade mycotoxins. Therefore, bile acids can stabilize feed quality, increase the use of unconventional raw materials, and promote cost reduction and efficiency improvement.

For precise nutrition, Lachance bile acid promotes the digestion and absorption of fat-soluble vitamins, effectively improves the digestibility of vitamin nutrients and reduces feed costs.

In addition, Lachance bile acids participate in the three stages of fat digestion and absorption in the digestive tract, improve the digestion and absorption rate of fat, and prevent and treat poultry fatty liver, ultimately helping poultry production to successfully reduce costs and increase efficiency.