Regarding the question of whether calcium supplementation for pigs can be replaced with feed grade calcium formate, presumably many farmers have some doubts about this. Chuandong Chemical Group would like to tell you that it is your wise decision to change calcium supplementation to calcium formate for pigs. The characteristics of calcium formate are: good digestion, good absorption, good use, and does not require the participation of gastric acid, reducing the use of acidifiers, thus reducing the cost of feed.

Piglets cannot produce enough acid in the stomach after weaning, and the PH value of the lysate in the stomach is too high to achieve a better digestion effect. The required PH is less than 4. This lack of acidity can lead to many problems including insufficient activation of pepsin, increased gastric emptying rate and poor ability to control gastrointestinal flora. This inhibits the digestion of protein, causing piglet indigestion, diarrhea, diarrhea, and the utilization rate of feed will be greatly reduced. So can piglet feeding be replaced with calcium formate? Look at some calcium supplement products commonly used by farmers:

1. Calcium carbonate: It is strongly alkaline and has great gastrointestinal irritation. The absorption process requires a large amount of gastric acid to neutralize, the absorption utilization rate is low, the heavy metal content is high, and the palatability is extremely poor. It is easy to react with the addition of vitamins and reduce the utilization of vitamins. Not suitable for young animals and those with achlorhydria.

2. Calcium citrate: The price is high, and it doesn't work if the amount added is small, and the feed becomes hardened if added.

3. Calcium lactate: 13% calcium, low calcium content. To achieve the control of the calcium level in the diet at 0.58% to 0.8%, too much dosage is required, which is difficult to accept for feed costs.

4. Calcium formate: The calcium content is as high as 30%, which can completely replace stone powder and has a high utilization rate of livestock and poultry. Neutral PH value, low moisture content, good water solubility and neutral.

Because calcium formate is an organic acid calcium, the content is above 98%, and the calcium content is ≥30.4%. Mixing calcium formate into the additive premix will not cause vitamin loss, and can separate free formic acid under the action of gastric acid, reduce gastric PH, improve animal immunity, and reduce the additional expenditure of acidifiers.

Tip: It is also indispensable to supplement calcium for piglets. Therefore, some inorganic calcium sources such as calcium carbonate will be added to the feed. If these inorganic calcium sources are to be digested and absorbed, they must be completed with the participation of gastric acid. Piglets have insufficient secretion of gastric acid, and only a larger dose of acidulant is added, which increases the cost of feed. So piglet calcium can be replaced with organic feed grade calcium formate.