How to Cleverly Add Feed Additives to Sheep

Feed additives are a class of special substances added during feeding, feed processing and storage. Although their dosage is small - some account for only a few parts per million of the feed, or even less - their effect is enormous. They have multiple functions, including supplementing or balancing feed nutrition, preventing disease, promoting sheep growth, ensuring feed quality and increasing sheep product yields. Scientifically using feed additives can effectively increase sheep product yields, improve feed utilization, save feed, reduce costs, and achieve the goal of increasing production and income. Using feed additives requires little investment and brings large returns; generally, an input of 1 yuan can increase income by 5 to 8 yuan. It is indeed a new practical technique and successful experience for developing the sheep farming industry, and is worth vigorously promoting and applying. Sheep additives can be divided into the following categories:

Nutritional additives mainly include non-protein nitrogen additives, amino acid agents, mineral trace element additives and vitamin additives, etc. They mainly supplement or balance essential nutrients and maintain normal physiological activities, etc. Non-nutritional additives: this type of additive itself does not have nutritional value, but it can improve body health, promote body metabolism and growth and development; or participate in digestion and neural regulation; or improve feed and product quality; or increase product yields, etc. Health-promoting and growth-promoting additives mainly include antibacterial growth-promoting additives, deworming additives, Chinese herbal medicine additives, enzyme preparations and microbial preparations, etc. Physiological regulation additives include rumen metabolism control agents, buffers and organic acid additives, etc. Feed quality improvement additives mainly include antioxidants, antifungal and preservative agents, silage additives, roughage preparation additives and flavoring agents, etc. They are used to protect and improve feed quality, enhance appetite, and improve feed digestion and utilization, etc. Anti-stress additives include minerals, fats, vitamins and sedatives, etc. They are mainly used for the body's anti-stress response and to enhance adaptability to environmental changes.