VEGA Guanidinoacetic Acid: Enhancing Livestock Growth and Performance through Improved Creatine Synthesis

Guanidinoacetic acid (GAA), also known as guanidoacetic acid, belongs to the natural amino acid and its derivatives. It is the direct precursor of creatine in vertebrates.

GAA can improve the creatine level in the muscles of pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, and other livestock and poultry. It participates in energy metabolism regulation, improves lean meat rate, enhances body size, controls fat, increases muscle, and promotes growth.

Phosphocreatine is the main energy supply material in animal muscle tissue. Guanidinoacetic acid supplementation can promote the transfer of energy to muscle tissue, allowing muscle growth to gain more energy and nutrients, thus promoting lean meat growth.

Why Guanidinium Acetate is Added

1.Lack of Creatine Synthesis by the Animal Itself

Animals synthesize only 50% - 75% of the required creatine, making it challenging to meet their needs.

2. Low Creatine Absorption Rate

Creatine has poor stability, low utilization rate (15% - 30%), and a high price. External addition of creatine may inhibit endogenous creatine synthesis.

3.Plant Diet Lacks Creatine

Feeding livestock and poultry a whole plant diet decreases production performance due to the lack of creatine.

4.Effectively Increases Creatine Content

Adding guanidinium acetate increases creatine content in muscle cells more effectively than creatine.

5.Reduces the Amount of Arginine Added in Poultry

Guanidinium acetate is mainly synthesized from arginine and ammonia in the body. Adding guanidinium acetate reduces arginine consumption in the body's synthesis reaction.

Functional Characteristics

Improve Animal Performance

1. Significantly improve slaughter rate and lean meat rate, and enhance animal body size (notably in meat cattle and sheep, leading to a thicker neck, wider back, and plumper buttocks).

2. Remove free radicals to improve meat color and quality.

3. Reduce animal stress and enhance immunity (improve intestinal barrier and enhance immune cell function).

4. Improve sperm energy metabolism, fertilization rate, and reproductive performance.

5. Replace animal protein raw materials, reduce arginine addition, lower costs, and increase efficiency.

Ruminants Treatment with Encapsulation

1.Ruminants such as cattle and sheep have a unique rumen physiological structure. Guanidinium acetate can be significantly degraded by rumen microorganisms, losing biological activity and preventing intestinal absorption, leading to feed loss and high breeding costs.

2.Encapsulated guanidinium acetate can remain in the rumen for about 12 hours, avoiding rumen environment damage, reaching the intestines safely, and playing its role effectively.

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