Paul Anderson, General Manager for Genesus, writes about their tour around South East Asia. (Image source: Stephen Fulljames/Commons)
Genesus Technical Sales Manager, Nguyen Van Hung, Vietnam, attended the Embassy of Canada roundtable meeting with the Honourable Lawrence MacAulay, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC), on 28 February in Hanoi
The seminar will discuss the role of digestible proteins in healthy piglet growth. (Image source: Liz West/Flickr)
Livestock nutrition specialists, HAMLET PROTEIN, will host seminars exploring the latest developments in piglet and broiler nutrition on 16 March at VIV Asia 2017
The seminar is split into a piglet and a broiler section and will be held in English. The piglet nutrition seminar will take place from 13:00-14:00 and will be held on the topic “Off to the best start – digestible proteins for healthy piglet growth”. The speakers at the event will be Rommel C Sulabo, Professor of Monogastric Nutrition at the University of the Philippines Los Banos who will speak about the nutritional value of different soy proteins used in piglet feeds and HAMLET PROTEIN Nutritionist Lars Sangill Andersen who will speak on ‘Formulating piglet diets under restrictions in antibiotic use.’
The broiler nutrition seminar under the broad theme ‘A lifetime of benefits – digestible proteins for the first chick feed.’ The speakers will include associate dean at the Faculty of Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine, Nong Lam University, Vietnam Nguyen, Quang Thieu on the topic ‘New trial performance on colour chicken and gut health situation’ and HAMLET PROTEIN technical sales manager David Nelson who will speak on ‘The Change to Antibiotic Free Broiler Diets: A US Perspective.’
The seminars will be held as part of HAMLET PROTIEN’s Feed Your Brain seminars initiative which brings international animal nutrition experts to address the issues of livestock nutrition.
HAMLET PROTEIN´s entire activities are directed towards demanding applications for young animal feeding. It aims to promote health and efficiency in animal nutrition through outstanding functional ingredients and service.
MIK International to showcase innovations at VIV Asia. (Image source: MIK Internationl)
MIK International is the worldwide specialist for high-quality plastic flooring and heating systems for use in pig husbandry
For farrowing pens the MIK Swing flooring system is either used as fully plastic option or combined with MIK cast panels. The MIK flooring offers best foot grip as well as highest comfort and hygienic surfaces. In the weaning accommodations, MIK Chess with its unique surface design gives best step safety and cleanliness.
In the pig finishing the trend towards “wean to finish” is becoming firmly established. MIK International has developed a special panel for this new system. The wean to finish panel Trapper XL in size 800 x 600 mm can be used in the weaner accommodation as well as all the way through to heavy bacon (200kgs) weight pigs.
For pig feeding MIK offers its Bistro W feeder range, either with plastic or stainless steel hopper. In addition, Bistro VD drop feeders are available with 6 or 9 l volume. The latest development is the water proof 90° transfer corner for chair feeding sytems.
For all systems, MIK offers PVC penning system in different heights and widths, produced in the desired lengths for your own specific project. The large number of accessories make this system extremely flexible and can be adapted to all pen and room sizes.
Our poultry slat is available in two different sizes and offers due to its special surface design a self-cleaning effect and provides optimal grip for the animals. The broiler slats are available as support type for use with support beams or as a leg type in three different heights. The broiler slats are designed to keep broiler without using any litter. This is a perfect animal friendly and clean solution that avoids blisters on breasts.
Visit us at the VIV Asia, hall 099, booth 2358!
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