Animal husbandry should promote sustainable, healthy and rapid development. Experts and scholars from various countries have started research on antibiotic substitutes, and research and application of acidifiers, enzyme preparations, plant extracts, probiotics and prebiotics have been greatly developed. In recent years, the purchase of potassium diformate feed additive as a substitute for antibiotics is also a good quality for many farmers. What you don't know about the use of potassium diformate feed additive in pig feed is here.

As a new feed acidifier product, potassium diformate has been widely used in pig feed, and has been reported in aquatic products and poultry.

Advantages of potassium diformate in pig production:

1. Strong bactericidal and bacteriostatic effect to maintain the health status of pigs

It is generally believed that the increase in production performance after the addition of antibiotics to the feed is associated with inhibition of subclinical infection. Therefore, the reason why potassium diformate has antibiotic-like growth promoting effect is actually to use it to have a strong killing effect on pathogenic bacteria in the intestinal tract, and its unique anti-microbial function is based on the combined action of formic acid and formate. Completely taken in the form of potassium diformate and passed through the acidic stomach to the neutral and alkaline back-end intestines, ie, automatically decomposed into formate and formate, non-dissociated formate through the bacterial cell wall, The intracellular pH is lowered, the intracellular PH is close to 7, and the organic acid enters the cell, destroying the enzyme activity in the cell and also feeding the nutrient transport system, so that the microorganism can not multiply, leading to death, and acting as an antibacterial and bactericidal function; formate anion in the cell wall Externally decomposes bacterial cell wall proteins to exert bactericidal and bacteriostatic effects.

2. Strong acidity, excellent slow release effect

The development and research of potassium diformate in various countries have found that potassium diformate is not only acidic but also slowly released in the digestive tract, and has a high buffering capacity, which can avoid excessive fluctuation of acidity in the gastrointestinal tract of animals.

3. Sustained release mold inhibitor can better extend feed preservation time

Mold-infected feed causes mildew in the feed, which not only consumes nutrients in the feed, but also reduces the quality of the feed, reduces the feed remuneration, and causes diarrhea, enteritis, and reproductive and reproductive disorders, and even death, which are seriously affected after being eaten by livestock and poultry. Animal production, so mold inhibitors and mycotoxin adsorbents have become a hot spot in animal husbandry research.

In July 2001, the European Union approved potassium diformate as the first substitute for antibiotic growth promoters for pig feed. In April 2003, the EU passed a guiding regulation that approved the maximum safe addition of piglets and growing pigs of commercial potassium diformate to 1.8%-1.2%. In July 2005, the EU issued a supplementary committee regulation in time to approve the use of potassium diformate as a growth promoter in sow feed.