We all prefer livestock and aquatic productions to be as natural and healthy as possible, because healthy animals produce healthy food for us, but animal farming is a hard business to stay profitable. Farmers have to deal with many challenges, such as bad weather conditions, diseases, rising feed prices and so on. 

For the most situations, producers are very good at matching the people needs for high standard and affordable food, but sometimes life can become difficult, one of the problems is found in animals gut, or intestinal tract, the health of gut is key to animals overall health and productivity.

Gut is like a complex factory, it extract and process nutrients from feed, and remove the waste from body, but the animals intestinal tract is constantly attacked by harmful bacteria, suffering from high stress and face other threats, causing problems like diarrhea or constipation, the functions of intestine will be weakened, even destroyed in some serious cases, this will cause negative results such as low growth rate, less egg production, even massive casualties overnight, which is very bad for business.

Moreover, gut problems will weaken the overall health state, open a door to many other diseases, because considering the intensive and crowded living space in modern animal husbandry, disease can easily spread over the population, just like what COVID19 is doing to humans race. So, maintaining gut health is very very important.

The next thing need to understand is what healthy gut is all about. A healthy intestine means having good digestive function, complete structure, good barrier function, stable mircoflora and efficient immune system. These factors are interrelated and interact with each other like teamwork.

So back to what I was saying, people often ignore the important role of gut, it’s actually much more than just digest food and remove waste. In fact it’s regarded as an important endocrine organ, a bacteria warehouse, the biggest immune system and the second brain.

If you are in animal husbandry business, and you want to stay profitable, then you really should pay attention to my essay, if you already know the benefits of probiotics, please share your ideas here and I will be happy to answer all your questions.