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Garlic can also be used as a feed additive.

Published: 2024-11-06 Author: mysheen
Last Updated: 2024/11/06, Garlic, also known as garlic in rural areas, is the most common agricultural by-product in rural areas. In the eyes of farmers, garlic is just a kind of seasoning, in fact, garlic is also a kind of feed additive with good quality and low price. Adding peeled and chopped raw garlic to the feed of broilers at the proportion of 3% to 5% can not only increase the appetite of broilers, improve the quality of chicken, make the flavor of chicken become stronger, but also significantly increase the daily weight gain rate of broilers. Adding 0.2% dried garlic powder to chicken feed can increase the survival rate of chicks by 5.8%.

Garlic, also known as garlic in rural areas, is the most common agricultural by-product in rural areas. In the eyes of farmers, garlic is just a kind of seasoning, in fact, garlic is also a kind of feed additive with good quality and low price.

Adding peeled and chopped raw garlic to the feed of broilers at the proportion of 3% to 5% can not only increase the appetite of broilers, improve the quality of chicken, make the flavor of chicken become stronger, but also significantly increase the daily weight gain rate of broilers. Adding 0.2% dried garlic powder to chicken feed can increase the survival rate of chicks by 5.8%-15.6%, adding 2% garlic premix to laying hens diet can increase laying rate by 98%. Adding 2% garlic premix to meat breeder diet can increase egg laying rate by 5.6%. Feeding laying hens with an additive of allicin extracted from garlic, organic germanium and selenium can not only increase the laying rate, but also prolong the peak period of egg production, after feeding garlic to breeder cocks, it can significantly improve the production efficiency of breeder cocks.

Adding a small amount of garlic to pig feed is beneficial to the growth and development of pigs. Adding 3% garlic to the feed of lactating sows can increase the daily feed intake of sows by more than 2 kg, and adding 2% garlic to piglets weaned for 15-25 days can increase the daily gain of piglets by more than 6.9%.

Adding 3% or 5% garlic to cow feed can have a good food attraction effect on dairy cows, and the daily milk yield of each cow can be increased by about 2 kg, and the daily consumption of concentrate can be reduced by 0.8 kg.

In addition, garlic can also be used to treat diseases such as piglet white dysentery, bovine rumen swelling, stomach cold, enteritis, diarrhea and rumen accumulation caused by weakness of the spleen and stomach.

 
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