The efficiency of probiotics in industrial pig breeding

Abstract

Pig breeding is one of the leading agricultural sectors that ensures the country’s food safety. In this regard, pig breeding must become a highly profitable branch of the agro-industrial complex due to growth of range of production performance indicators. Various feed additives are the reserve for increasing the productivity of the animals. The most popular feed supplements used today are probiotics and phytobiotics. Modern probiotic preparations are a complex (symbiotic additives) consisting of various strains of bacteria with addition of enzymes, prebiotics, chelating elements, amino acids and biologically active components. The article provides data on use of the probiotic preparation “Profort” and the phytobiotic “Intebio” in feeding of sows in farrow and nursing sows. According to the results of scientific and economic experience it was found that feed additives increased the following indicators: prolificacy — by 1.9–2.9%, size of the young piglets — by 10.4–12.3%, number of mature piglets in the litter — by 10.8–11.8%, rate of survival of the young piglets — by 4.0–6.1%, weight of the piglets litter by the moment of weaning — by 18.0–22.2%. The use of the preparations led to decrease in feed costs per 1 kg of liveweight gain and increased revenue obtained from the sale of the young livestock.

Prospects for the use of probiotics in pig breeding

“…It was also revealed that the use of probiotics and synbiotics to sows affects the gastrointestinal microbiota of the pig itself and their offspring, as well as health and productivity, according to an analysis conducted in the study by Kiernan D.P. et al [5].…”

The ways to improve the biological and morphological parameters of young fattening pigs

“…The feed additive contributed to an increase in the antioxidant activity of the animal organism and the antimicrobial components of blood plasma [17]. Probiotics and phytobiotics show their efficiency too [18,19]. Thus, the application of yeast probiotic supplements positively affects the content of erythrocytes, total protein, calcium and phosphorus in the blood of animals, as well as the number of lactobacteria and bifidobacteria in the intestine, increases live weight and increases rate of multiple pregnancy [20,21].…”