Lohmann Animal Health’s premiere at the AVA-cattle symposium

Lohmann Animal Health is highly satisfied with its first participation in this year’s cattle symposium organised by the Agrar- und Veterinär-Akademie Horstmar (AVA).
Dipl. Ing. agr. Frank Menn, Sales Manager at Lohmann Animal Health, gave lectures at a total of 11 of the events on the subjects “oxidative stress” and “negative energy balance”. The AVA-cattle symposium is one of the most important meetings in the field of beef and dairy cattle husbandry with representatives from academia, the feed industry, agriculturists and veterinarians in Germany.

Between November 2010 and January 2011 around 1,600 trade visitors attended the AVA cattle symposium. Frank Menn explains, “the topics ‘oxidative stress’ and ‘negative energy balance’ provided plenty of material for discussion at a scientific level and were well received by the professional audience”.

Lohmann Animal Health is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and providers of feed additives. With the products Loxidan^® and Carnipass^™ Lohmann Animal Health provides suitable solutions for the health of beef cattle and dairy cows. Loxidan^® commences its activity in the feed working against the formation of oxidation products, thus helping to avoid oxidative stress. Carnipass^™ is a rumen-stable source of L-carnitine which provides the opportunity of supporting the metabolism of the cow in a negative energy balance situation, thus reducing costs for veterinary treatments and ensuring a continually high level of performance.

Effervescent granules for drinking water

Lohmann Animal Health has introduced a world innovation, AviPro® Granule onto the market. Granules have been produced in Cuxhaven since the end of last year with the aid of a specially developed formulation technology. These granules dissolve effervescently and without trace in drinking water.

Just like AviPro® Granule BX, a prize-winning formulation of B-complex vitamins and vitamin K3, which Lohmann is already distributing successfully in many European countries. Congenial to the summer the company has now launched a further product: AviPro Granule Anilyte, the isotonic drink against heat stress in poultry.

This mixture which is tailored to the increased requirements of electrolytes further encourages water uptake due to its fine aniseed note.

ZY Phytase now approved for ducks...

Now even more applications of ZY Phytase are possible. Apart from the long-established approvals for piglets, pigs for fattening, sows, laying hens, chickens and turkeys for fattening and salmonides ZY Phytase 5000 was also approved for the category ducks during the latest meeting of the “Standing Committee” on 22^nd October 2007 in Brussels.

Within short we are expecting the publication of this approval in the EU „Official Journal“. The available proposal for registration stipulates a minimum dose of 250 FYT/kg (50 g/t complete feed) and the EU Commission recommends a dosage of 500 – 750 FYT/kg.

The authorisation of Toyocerin for rabbit breeding does is published

During their meeting on March 20th 2009 in Brussels, the "Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health" (SCFCAH) took a positive voting for the use of Toyocerin for rabbits breeding does, as another addition to the existing approvals for piglets, pigs for fattening, sows and chickens, turkeys, cattle and rabbits for fattening. The approval for rabbits breeding does is according to the new EU regulation 1831/2003. This approval was published in the EU "Official Journal" on May 8th 2009 and will enter into force on th 20th day following its publication.

The dosage recommendations for rabbits breeding does will be:

0.2 x 10⁹ - 1 x 10⁹ cfu / kg complete feed (20 - 100 g Toyocerin 10¹⁰/ t complete feed)