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DAIRY PERFORMANCE

Improving immunity of farm animals through trace mineral management

The key takeaways from this article

  • A systemic inflammation process leads to re-partitioning of nutrients towards the immune system.
  • Oxidative stress has a negative impact on immune competence, growth, and fertility.
  • Both the amount and the source of trace mineral that is fed can help to improve immunity and performance.

Healthy animals for sustainable farming

Sustainable farming meets the following criteria:

  • Economic: it is effective and efficient, meaning that it produces the feed required to feed the world population in an efficient way, while generating an income for the farmer
  • It deals with concerns about public health, e.g., responsible use of antimicrobials, avoiding pharmacological dosing of trace minerals etc.
  • It addresses issues with animal welfare
  • It has a minimal impact on the environment and on climate change

All of these criteria can only be met with healthy farm animals. Trace mineral management can improve immunity of farm animals. Sandra Villagómez Estrada from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Davi Brito de Araujo, Global Program Manager Trace Minerals in Trouw Nutrition presented the latest scientific insights with regard to the impact of trace mineral management on health and immunity of farm animals.

How can we improve animal health through trace mineral management?

Prevention is better than cure[1]. High quality nutrition should contain correct levels of trace elements and is essential during that are critical to the animal such as gestation, parturition, transition, lactation, weaning, management changes (vaccination, shipping, new groups, new diets) or environmental changes (heat stress, ventilation, comfort).

How does the immune system affect performance of production animals?

Firstly, an inflammation process leads to re-partitioning of nutrients towards the immune system[2]. E.g., circulating IL-1β → negatively correlated with weight gain and protein accretion. High metabolic and energy demands can lead to oxidative stress, which in term has a negative impact on immune competence, growth, and fertility[3]. A diet that fails to provide essential nutrients in the correct form can be a secondary pathogenic agent[4].

Feed efficiency of dairy cows is a key driver of dairy farm profitability

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The impact of trace mineral management on immunity and inflammation

Weaning induces a transient gut inflammation, leading to an increase of expression levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines IL-1β, IL-6 and TNFα. This in term results in impaired intestinal integrity and epithelial function. High levels of zinc can reduce mucosal inflammation and diarrhea[5,6], but is this sustainable?

The source of trace mineral can be important. Pigs fed hydroxy trace minerals were better able to deal with an LPS challenge[7] and their immune system was better able to deal with a challenge with PED virus than those fed sulphates[8]. The effect of hydroxy forms of trace minerals on oxidative stress was better compared to sulphates in weaned pigs[9,10], sows[11] and broilers[12].

In dairy cattle, feeding hydroxy trace minerals instead of sulphates had a positive impact on gut health and reduced inflammation after 5 days of feed restriction[13], and reduced oxidative stress and inflammation during transition resulting in an increase of peak milk production[14]. In feedlot steers, it decreased the amounts of Treponema present on hoofs and it reduced the incidence of foot rot[15].

Conclusion

Feeding the correct levels and the correct from of trace minerals can have a strong positive effect on health and welfare of production animals.

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The effect of trace mineral management on health and immunity

Download the presentation of Sandra Villagómez Estrada, Ph.D., Researcher at SNiBA - UAB and Davi Brito de Araujo, D.V.M, M.S, M.A.B., Global Trace Minerals Program Manager Trouw Nutrition, which explains how to address specific animal production challenges with regards to economical production, feed efficiency, public health, environement, animal health and welfare, reduction of greenhouse gasses and nutrient excretion. The latest science withregard to trace mineral management to address these challenges was discussed during the presentation.

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