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The concept of enzyme supplementation to achieve better feed conversion efficiency is not a novel approach to animal feeding and nutrition. Many scientists in the past have dabbled on this concept, but with mixed success.
What is new about ez Aquaculture enzymes as a feed additive is that the supplementation is now targeted to the total nutritional profile of the feed, rather than on its individual components. Currently and in the past, enzyme supplementation means adding a protease here, or a cellulase there, to increase the absorption of specific ingredients in the feed. This is because few manufacturers are able to produce multi-enzymes or broad-based enzyme formulations that can address all of the different ingredients in the feed. For those manufacturers who could produce multi-enzyme formulas, the cost of using them was prohibitive to feed millers.
Why supplement feed with digestive enzymes?
The short answer is this: Meat-producing animals including fish and shrimp, when cultured or farmed, are fed using ingredients that are strange to their natural digestive make-up or normal food in the wild. Ingredients in milled feed such as soy proteins, corn, wheat, and animal crude fat are often too complex for farmed animals to digest.
Hence, the addition of broad-based enzymes to the feed is seen as supplementing the animal’s internal production of enzymes. Complex feed ingredients could mean the inability of the animal to simplify these ingredients into molecules that can be easily absorbed as nutrition to fuel energy generation, reproduction, growth and disease prevention processes. Adding broad-based enzymes that address each and every component in the feed gives the farmed animal the added ability to process feed with less energy expended and at a far higher efficiency in breaking down complex material into fully absorbable nutrients.
Substitution of feed ingredients by millers as a means of cutting costs can also mean that feed become less digestible, resulting in lower nutritional uptake, and hence lower meat production. Too complex a feed could simply mean that the farmed animal does not posses the correct enzyme, nor the correct blend of enzymes, to break down specific feed ingredients or that the animal itself is overwhelmed by the amount of energy required to break down certain feed elements.
Adding enzymes in feed increases nutritive value to substituted ingredients and even of poor diets.
In addition, timed and volumetric regular feedings, a procedure followed in farm environments may actually overwhelm an animal’s ability to produce the correct and sufficient enzymes through its own biological processes or from inherent bacteria populations in the digestive tract.
Enzyme supplementation to animal feed has been proven to improve the digestion efficiency in animals, increase bioavailability of ingredients in the feed, optimize nutritional uptake, resulting in lower feed costs by increasing feed conversion efficiency.
Another benefit to enzyme supplementation includes the ability of enzymes to detoxify ingredients in the feed caused by rancidity, exposure to extremes of temperature, or poor processing. Toxins in feed will lower survival rates, slow down growth and adversely affect the ability to fend off disease. Feed ingredients especially cereals and legumes have allergenic components and anti-nutritional factors that prevent their own uptake as well as that of other ingredients in the feed, causing animals to die, become moribund, or simply stop growing.
Finally, as the ultimate benefit of enzyme supplementation and the resulting optimized nutritional uptake, animals supplemented with a broad-based digestive enzyme, generate lower wastes and decreased manure odors. Current DE (Digestive Enzyme) formulations include top-dress enzymes for applications in poultry production as well as in fish and shrimp culture.
A most welcome recent breakthrough is the introduction of Miller Formulations. These products allow for the inclusion of enzymes during the mixing stage of milling, prior to pelleting. This development allows feed mills to save on labor and extra equipment associated with topdressing the finished feed with enzymes at the post-pelleting stage.
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Digestive Enzymes (TopDress Application)
Apply digestive enzymes to the feed by way of topdressing. GLB’s topdress formulations usually are applied at the rate of 1-2ml per kilo of feed. Follow instructions on product information sheet that can be downloaded from this website. |
DE100F |
DE201F |
DE110F |
Digestive Enzymes (Miller Formulation)
These products allow for the inclusion of enzymes during the mixing stage of milling, prior to pelleting. This development allows feed mills to save on labor and extra equipment associated with topdressing the finished feed with enzymes at the post-pelleting stage. |
DE600F |
DE701F |
DE610F |
Probiotics
When animals are at risk of being infected, or when surrounding farms are afflicted with disease, apply PB formulations at the rate of 1-2 grams per kilo of feed once a day, or twice when the farm is under attack. |
PB100F |
PB201F |
PB110F |
Immune Enzyme
It is also a good practice to enhance immune response in fish or shrimp by enriching the feed with GLB’s IE formulations which contain many trace minerals, phospholipids, proteins, amino acids and nucleotides which enhance the over-all response of animals against attack. |
IE100F |
IE201F |
IE110F |
Pond Water
Using enzymes for water treatment ensures that all potential pollutants are eliminated, and the subsequent addition of probiotics and enzymes in the feed will stimulate appetite, balance microbial population in the gut, eliminate pathogens, and boost immune response. |
PT100W / PT400W |
 | PT100W Pond Water Treatment is a concentrated enzyme digestant formulated specifically for international aquaculture markets. Designed for low and high density aquaculture farming, PT100W enhances the benefits of bacterial applications in ponds and accelerates the breakdown of wastes, allowing for faster replication of beneficial bacteria populations which are instrumental in maintaining the optimum environmental balance in the aquaculture process. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | PT400W Pond Water Treatment increases fish & shrimp survival ratios by accelerating enzymatic activity in water, breaking down organic matter so that it can be readily consumed by both indigenous and augmented microbes, which accelerates their propagation and digestive activity, and commensurately decreases the opportunity for pathogenic microbes to grow and spread. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | DE100F Topdress Digestive Enzyme enables White Shrimp to quickly neutralize and overcome systemic toxins and ingested waste matter. Such an action will contribute towards augmenting the animals’ capability for accelerated growth. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | DE201F is designed for tiger shrimp, both in nursery and early (first 8 weeks) of grow-out production. DE201F improves the digestive capability of reared animals, thereby increasing the absorption and the benefit from dietary nutrients in the feed. DE201F enables shrimp to overcome systemic toxins and waste matter, which increases its capability for growth and reproduction. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | DE110F is a topdress feed additive including proteins and enzymes with known capabilities of breaking down toxins such as ammonia and sulfides as well as metabolizing proteins, lipids, phosphorous and carbohydrates for increased absorption. Finfish fed DE110F will exhibit greater capacity to fend off stress and disease, yielding improved survival ratios and increased digestion capacity to absorb more nutrients from the feed. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | Great Lakes Bio Systems’ PB100F is an enzyme-probiotic feed additive blended to optimize the systemic functions of white shrimp during culture. This formula contains both probiotic bacteria species and antivibrio strains which work together to achieve systemic toxin elimination, enhance immune response and maximize nutritional uptake of feed ingredients. Consistent inclusion of PB100F in feed balances the intestinal flora of penaeids, improves appetite, and helps defend against pathogens by way of competitive exclusion. | | Available in 18kg Pail |
 | Great Lakes Bio Systems’ PB110F active ingredients consist of highly aggressive beneficial bacteria species including antivibrial strains; plus proteins and enzymes with known capabilities to enhance immune response in farmed fish species, and assist in digestion and break down of systemic organic wastes. This enzyme-probiotic feed additive helps the animal to defend against pathogens by way of competitive exclusion. | | Available in 18kg Pail |
 | Great Lakes Bio Systems’ PB201F is an enzyme-probiotic feed additive blended to optimize the systemic functions of tiger shrimp during culture. This formula contains both probiotic bacteria species and antivibrio strains which work together to achieve systemic toxin elimination, enhance immune response and maximize nutritional uptake of feed ingredients. Consistent inclusion of PB201F in feed balances the intestinal flora of penaeids, improves appetite, and helps defend against pathogens by way of competitive exclusion. | | Available in 18kg Pail |
 | Topdress Immune Enzyme IE100F consist of active ingredients with known capabilities to enhance immune response in white shrimp and increases in the digestion of proteins, lipids, phosphorous and carbohydrates for increased absorption and the break down of organic wastes. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | IE110F blend is a unique immune enhancing formula for all species of finfish, but most especially relevant for species that are delicate or have historically low rates of survival such as sole, grouper, etc. IE110F contains no steriods or growth hormone additives, and contains natural ingredients selected to strengthen the animals survival response against pathogens and parasites. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | IE201F is for tiger shrimp, specifically prepared for the late stages of culture. The natural ingredients found in IE201F have been selected to strengthen the animals survival response against pathogens and parasites. IE201F contains no steriods or growth hormone additives. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | DE600F Miller Formula is for White Shrimp/P vannamei is a specially-formulated blend of proteins and enzymes that considers the particular feeding habits and the unique dietary requirements of this species in high-density culture, and is designed for direct application into the raw mash during the milling process of white shrimp feed. The DE600F enzymes are suited to feed milling and eliminates the need for top-dressing standard feed at the pond site. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | The addition of DE610F enzymes from Great Lakes Bio Systems into the feed milling processes enables the enhancement of standard feed ingredients, as well as the addition of non-standard or substituted ingredients to be fully integrated into the nutrition profile of targeted species. This increases feed enrichment efficiency, reduces labor costs and minimizes feed waste. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
 | Great Lakes Bio Systems DE701F Miller Formula for Tiger Shrimp is a blend of particular proteins and enzymes designed for direct application into the raw mash during the milling process of shrimp feed. The direct application of enzymes suited to feed milling eliminates the need for top-dressing standard feed at the pond site. This in turn increases feed enrichment efficiency, reduces labor costs and minimizes feed waste. | | Available in 20 Liter Pail, 32x20 L Pails, 60 Liter Drum, 7x60L Drums, 200 Liter Drum |
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