Betaine hydrochloride (HCl) is a nutritional additive that can be used in livestock and poultry feed to improve growth, feed conversion efficiency, and carcass quality. Also used in aquaculture and pet animal feed.
Description
Betaine HCl is an acidic version of betaine, a compound found in food sources like beets and grains. It works similarly to hydrochloric acid (HCl) in the stomach.
Betaine hydrochloride is an efficient, high-quality and economical nutritive additive that attracts and promotes growth. It is widely used in livestock, poultry, aquaculture and various pet animal feeds.
Betaine is highly useful tool for manufacturers because efficiency of betaine as a methyl donor is higher compared to choline, the surplus of betaine available to layers enhances cellular efficiency and helps to improve performance.
Some ways betaine HCl can benefit livestock and poultry
- Growth: Betaine HCl can increase body weight and growth rate.
- Feed conversion: Betaine HCl can improve feed conversion efficiency.
- Carcass quality: Betaine HCl can improve carcass composition.
- Heat stress: Betaine HCl can help birds cope with heat stress.
- Coccidiosis: Betaine HCl can reduce the effects of coccidiosis in poultry and swine.
- Immune system: Betaine HCl can boost the immune system in animals.
- Lipid metabolism: Betaine HCl can regulate lipid metabolism and prevent abnormal accumulation in the liver and kidneys.
Some key uses of Betaine HCL
- Betaine is a more efficient methyl donor as compared to Choline Chloride
- Supplementing betaine in poultry feed can improve nutrient digestibility and impact litter moisture thus helping in water retention
- Adding Beta – Key at 45 weeks in layers increases egg weight & size as a result of increased protein digestibility and methionine absorption
- By reducing mortality and litter moisture, betaine helps producers to improve overall layer liveability
- By increasing the efficiency of osmoregulation, betaine reduces protein degradation in the egg thereby improving egg quality and prolongs freshness
- Additional benefits of betaine are improved slaughter characteristics (more breast meat yield and less abdominal fat) and in laying hens, choline and methionine replacement is recommended
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