Fresh Up: A complete solution for animals under heat stress condition
Discover Fresh Up, a specific concept for swine, poultry & ruminant under heat stress conditions.
This complete offer includes a nutritional specialty and a package of services. Fresh Up concept is designed to be adapted for each situation of heat stress and animals species specificities.
Fresh Up is a global approach to heat stress management:
- A formulation support which is focused on optimization of current formulas for a better valorization of feed by the animals under high temperature, and also, a technical support based on animal and farm management
- A nutritional specialty to manage heat stress challenges. This solution is a compound of a unique blend of natural and specific ingredients. A specific product was developed for each animals species in order to fully answer to the specificities of heat stress depending on the animals.
Heat stress consequences in swine
In swine, heat stress is one of the major concerns during summer or/and hot periods. Indeed, swine have just a few numbers sweat glands for decreasing their internal body temperature.
Moreover, all physiological responses expressed by swine to tolerate heat stress reduce productivity and cause welfare issues. Consequently, profitability is negatively affected.
The main consequences of heat stress on swine are a sudden decrease of feed intake, a reduction of weight gain, an increase of mortality and an increase of fat deposition. When sows are kept under high temperature as usual in farrowing crates, their feed intake, performances, as well as welfare are negatively affected resulting in economic losses.
Fresh Up nutritional specialty for swine, is a compound of a unique blend of natural and specific ingredients and formulated to manage the risks of leaky gut and gut inflammation. It includes plant extracts and also palatant ingredients mainly to avoid consumption decrease.
Heat stress consequences in poultry
When broilers and layers are kept under high temperature, usually in summer times and in non-isolated farms, their feed intake, performances, as well as welfare are negatively affected, resulting in economic losses.
We identified 3 main consequences of heat stress on poultry which at the end impact the performance but also the welfare of the animals.
- The first one is a decrease of appetite which can induce a decrease of feed intake until 50% limiting the nutrient ingestion.
- Secondly, an increase of oxidative stress linked to intestinal inflammation will induce a decrease of the intestinal barrier effect and a disruption of intestinal integrity.
- Finally, heat stress will increase the respiratory rate of the birds, creating respiratory alkalosis, electrolyte imbalance and dehydration.
Fresh Up nutritional specialty for poultry will fight against metabolic disorders through corticosterone secretion regulation, positive effect on electrolyte balance and blood pH reduction. It will also support appetite, increasing hydration during osmotic stress at the cell level. Fresh Up Poultry will protect intestinal integrity, decreasing gut permeability and supporting tight junction’s structure.
Heat stress consequences in ruminant
When dairy cows are kept under high temperature and humidity index (THI>68), their feed intake, performances, as well as welfare are negatively affected, resulting in economic losses. Dry cows are also affected, producing less milk during the next lactation, fetal growth is reduced with a direct impact on the milk potential of your future calves.
In dairy, we also observed as heat stress consequence, the reduction of feed intake, which in this case will conduct in a decrease of rumination to result in a lower rumen pH. Acidosis can also appear because of the reduction of saliva buffering and drooling effect.
In addition, the increase of blood flow to extremities can lead to a reduction of nutrient and oxygen delivery to enterocytes creating inflammation and alteration of the intestinal integrity.
All those negative impacts of heat stress on dairy will lead to a decrease of milk production and reproduction performances.
Fresh Up nutritional specialty for ruminant, is a unique blend of natural and specific ingredients (plant extracts and yeasts) and tested in several farms for more than 15 years (university and field locations across North America).
