What are the main types of feed additives for sheep? What do you pay attention to in the process of adding?

Sheep feed additive has many functions, such as replenishing or balancing feed nutrition, preventing diseases, promoting sheep growth, ensuring feed quality and improving sheep product output. The scientific use of feed additives can effectively increase the output of sheep products, improve feed utilization rate, save feed, reduce costs, and achieve the purpose of increasing production and income. Feed additives for sheep can be divided into the following categories:

1. Additives for improving feed quality

It mainly includes antioxidants, anti-mildew preservatives, silage additives, roughage additives and seasoning agents. It is used to protect and improve feed quality, increase appetite, improve feed digestion and utilization rate, etc.

2. Anti-stress additive

Including minerals, fats, vitamins and tranquilizers. It is mainly used for the anti-stress response of the body to enhance the ability to adapt to environmental changes.

3. Nutritional additives

There are mainly non-protein nitrogen additives, amino acids, mineral trace element additives and vitamin additives. It is mainly to supplement or balance the necessary nutrition, maintain normal physiological activities and so on.

4. Non-nutritive additives

These additives themselves do not have nutritional value, but they can improve body health, promote metabolism and growth, or participate in digestion and neural regulation; or improve feed and product quality; or increase product output.

5. Health promotion additives

There are mainly bacteriostatic and growth-promoting additives, insect repellent additives, Chinese herbal medicine additives, enzyme preparations and microbial preparations and other additives.

6. Physiological regulation additives

It includes rumen metabolic control agents, buffers and organic acid additives.

Attachment: there are the following problems in the production and use of feed additives.

1. Abuse of antibiotics and hormones in feed additives in the production of early feed additives, low doses of antibiotics or sulfonamides were used to prevent diseases or diarrhea in livestock and poultry. This low-dose antibiotic will destroy the ecological balance among microorganisms (including pathogenic microorganisms) in the natural environment; there are residues in food, which will seriously affect human disease treatment and human heredity.

two。 The commonly used trace elements in feed additives are iron, copper, manganese, zinc, iodine, selenium and so on. After entering the human body, these elements exist in the state of ions, molecules or compounds with complex structures, and play different biochemical roles in different states. Too little will lead to deficiency, and too much will cause poisoning or imbalance. Therefore, the content must be appropriate and evenly mixed, otherwise it will have the opposite effect.

3. Exaggerating the effect of feed additives is positive for balancing diets and promoting the production and growth of livestock and poultry. Generally, it can increase the yield by 5% and 25% compared with the control group without additives. However, some products exaggerate their role in advertising, and we should be vigilant against these unrealistic propaganda.