BioBoost - Probiotic Supplement

BioBoost is a concentrated source of viable strains of probiotic microorganisms and nutraceutical compounds to achieve efficiency and production improvements in both monogastric and ruminant species.

Importance of Gut Health

The intestinal tract of an animal is the site of nutrient digestion and absorption. It is also the site forcolonisation by both beneficial and pathogenic microorganisms. The microbial balance determines the host animal’s health status and it’s productive efficiency. In healthy animals, lactobacilli dominate the intestine successfully suppress pathogenic activity.

Changes in this balance of microbial composition often occur and represent a major cause of digestive disturbance. This is frequently due to the development of Gram negative bacteria, particularly pathogenic E. coli strains.

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Newborns

The intestinal tract of newborn animals is rapidly colonised by a complex microbial flora soon after birth. Despite a high variability between livestock species, at day 5 or 6 after birth, 400 to 500 bacterial strains, totalling 100 trillions, can be identified in the GIT of an animal. At birth the only immune protection for the young animal is supplied by its mother and only lasts for 4 to 5 days.

Its own immune system does not appear until about the 21st day when antibodies start to be formed in the intestinal mucous membrane. During the intervening period, any lapse in the intestinal microflora balance is particularly important to prevent infections.

Stress

Worked animals are constantly subjected to physiological, management or environmental stresses including: pregnancy, birthing, feed changes, prevailing weather conditions and transportation. During times of stress pathogenic bacteria can overgrow the lactobacilli, thereby changing the normal intestinal microbial balance, resulting in host digestive disorders and upsets.

Impact of Antibiotic Therapy

Therapeutic treatment of a sick animal with antibiotics or other drugs may remove all the microbes in the intestine and create a temporarily sterile digestive tract. Animals are extremely vulnerable to invasion by pathogenic organisms immediately after such therapeutic treatment.

Modes of Action of BioBoost

Competitive Exclusion:
Fructooligosaccharides in BioBoost stimulate the growth of beneficial bacteria which attach to specific sites on intestinal wall by adhering to epithelial cells or the mucus covering them, thereby excluding undesirable bacteria. Yeasts stimulate microbial activity in ruminants.

Production of Anti-Microbial Substances:
Beneficial bacteria produce important anti-microbial compounds such as hydrogen peroxide and bacteriocins which inhibits the development of pathogens.

Environmental Modification:
Yeast activity in the intestine uses up oxygen, thereby arresting the development of oxygen loving pathogens.

Production of Acids:
Beneficial bacteria produce lactic acid, which decreases the pH in the gut and inhibits the growth of undesirable bacteria such as E. coli.

Consumption of Available Nutrients:
Adding BioBoost to a diet results in rapid and dominant growth by benefical bacteria at the expense of the undesirable bacteria, effectively inhibiting pathogen growth by starvation.

Detoxification:
Glucomannan compounds enable the neutralization of enter-toxins and the binding and removal of pathogens.

Stimulation of the Immune System:
BioBoost contains a special form of mannan oligosaccharide (MOS) that stimulates the immune system to enhance the animal’s natural ability to fight infection.

Effect of Bio-Boost

Effect of BioBoost on Economics of Raising Calves

Treatment	Control	BioBoost	+/-, %
No of calves	100	100
Start weight, kg	47.46	47.77
Market weight, kg	200.05	208.96	+4.45
Total Gain, kg	152.59	161.19	+5.73
ADG, kg	1.21	1.28	+5.64
Total feed, kg	278	278
Feed/Gain	1.82	1.72	+5.50
Medication cost, £	12.15	10.48	-15.97

BioBoost Probiotic Supplement has applications in the following animal groups: