By Dr. Sangita Jalukar, Senior Technical Services Manager, Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Production
When it comes to herd health challenges, it’s easy to feel like making reactive decisions is your only option—but there is another way. Now, you can achieve greater success and long-term herd health by taking a proactive approach.
Arm & Hammer Animal and Food Production’s portfolio of proactive solutions delivers animal productivity and food safety solutions that are powered by nature and tailored to meeting needs across the food chain, from raising healthy animals to producing safe food.
As the only animal and food production company with a truly global reach extending across the food chain, ARM & HAMMER™ is uniquely positioned to provide your herd with strain-specific, Bacillus-based solutions for individual challenges, provide insights and support from The ScienceHearted Center, a state-of-the-art microbial laboratory, and deliver solutions to inhibit pathogens both pre- and post-harvest.
You want the best for your pigs—and these options can help meet your herd’s productivity goals and stay ahead of health challenges.
Improve whole herd productivity.
CELMANAX™ improves sow productivity, prepares the immune system and may reduce the need for antimicrobial use. The product combines the benefits of multiple feed additives in one consistently high-quality formula and delivers highly bioavailable Refined Functional Carbohydrates™ (RFCs™) that help animals cope with challenges.
A study of 240 sows* demonstrated that CELMANAX fed 35 days post-breeding through the end of lactation resulted in no significant sow body weight loss at the end of weaning, reduced the wean-to-estrus interval by up to 1.5 days and improved percent bred in the first 7 days to 97–100%.
In another 250-sow study*, CELMANAX supplementation during 90-110 days of gestation lower mortality rate of piglets at 24h of life (p=0.05)
Build resiliency and efficiency.
CERTILLUS™ uses a Microbial Terroir™Assessment to uncover the challenges your pigs face. Your Microbial Terroir is the microbial makeup of your environment, feed, flooring, water and the weather. Only ARM & HAMMER can assess the positive and negative components of your herd’s Microbial Terroir and reveal how you can address harmful pathogens slowing down your animals’ productivity with targeted Bacillus strains.
With CERTILLUS, you can raise pigs resilient to challenges. In a study of weanling pigs*, those fed CERTILLUS for five days prior to an E. coli F18 challenge lost less weight and had less diarrhea than challenged pigs fed a control basal diet.
Another study* showed CERTILLUS fed to sows from three weeks after breeding through lactation resulted in pigs with improved performance-associated immune factors. High concentrations of the acute phase protein, alpha α-1-acid glycoprotein (AGP), are associated with reduced growth performance in pigs. Pigs weaned from sows fed CERTILLUS had lower serum AGP compared to pigs from control sows. In a similar study*, CERTILLUS supplementation during gestation and lactation phase improved microbial environment by reducing E. coli shedding in sows and enhanced microbial colonization of beneficial bacteria in pigs resulting in enhanced growth performance and health of nursery pigs.
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With ARM & HAMMER you can work with a company that takes an integrated approach to both animal & food production, with both on-farm answers & postharvest solutions. The Integrated Food Production team connects all the links of the food chain and provides alternatives to status quo solutions that are both nature-based and backed by proven research.
Challenges across the swine industry are constantly evolving, which is why we’re constantly developing new on-farm and postharvest solutions. We keep a close watch on potential challenges and new standards, such as the impending Salmonella standards in pork.
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*References available upon request.
