Under the general trend of industry bans, it is the pursuit of domestic feed companies and farmers to find safe, effective and convenient antibiotic substitutes. In the practice of animal husbandry, adding potassium diformate to the diets of animals, especially young animals, can promote animal growth, reduce disease occurrence, and improve feed utilization. Achieving scientific breeding and giving full play to its production performance under the premise of ensuring the health of livestock and poultry can increase feed utilization rate and reduce production costs.

There are three main types of antibiotic substitutes:

1) Intestinal health products, such as probiotics, acidifiers, etc.

2) Substances that enhance immune function, such as enzyme preparations.

3) Plant extracts, isomalt oligosaccharides, etc.

In the past, adding antibiotic drug additives to feed was an important measure in animal husbandry production to prevent animal diseases, improve production capacity, and increase breeding efficiency. However, the long-term use of antibiotic additives has caused a large number of bacteria, especially pathogenic bacteria, to develop drug resistance, and produce serious drug residues in livestock products, which has an adverse impact on the effective prevention and treatment of livestock and poultry diseases and human health.

Nowadays, more people choose to use potassium diformate, which can promote growth and has little side effects, no drug residues, and no drug resistance. The verification shows that potassium diformate has strong antibacterial and bactericidal effects against drug-resistant bacteria. It can replace antibiotics and is widely used in livestock and ruminant breeding, especially suitable for chickens, ducks, pigs, cattle, horses, sheep, aquatic products, etc. Of rearing.

Potassium diformate contains small molecule formic acid, which can be used as an acidifier. It can stimulate the taste bud cells of the animal cavity, increase the secretion of saliva and promote appetite. Improve protein digestibility and protein deposition, which is conducive to the absorption of trace elements and enhances the ability to resist diseases.

For the immature digestive tract of young animals, it is necessary to increase the acidity, and to activate some important digestive enzymes, the effect of potassium diformate is even greater, which is more conducive to the digestion of nutrients. The addition of 1.8% potassium diformate to the diet of weaned piglets reduced the number of E. coli in the stomach by 19.57% and the number of E. coli in the small intestine by 5.26%. Studies have also found that adding 1.2% potassium diformate to piglet feed can increase the number of Lactobacillus in fecal samples and reduce the number of Salmonella. The inhibitory effect of potassium diformate on Escherichia coli is stronger than that of lactic acid bacteria, which is beneficial to the establishment of a healthy microflora of the gastrointestinal tract.

The use of good non-antibiotic growth promoters requires reasonable development and utilization of feed resources, formulating scientific feed formulas, and producing full-price and combined feeds so that livestock and poultry can obtain sufficient amounts of nutrients. It can also inhibit or prevent the colonization and reproduction of E. coli or other harmful microorganisms in the intestinal tract, prevent the occurrence of intestinal diseases, and improve the ability of animals to resist stress.