Jolien van Soest – Global Solution Manager – Mineral Nutrition Producers are under pressure to deliver more chicks, better chick quality, and more predictable broiler performance. Optimizing performance of broiler breeders and ensuring a good life-start of their broiler offspring is a multi-factorial issue, involving genetics, management and nutrition. One of the solutions lies in optimal trace mineral nutrition, where selenium has been shown to play an important role. In two university...

Modern layer genetics offer extraordinary potential. Yet across commercial operations worldwide, a consistent reality remains: actual performance often falls short of genetic capability. Where does this performance gap begin? Applied research and field experience from H&N International GmbH indicate that the gap frequently originates during one of the most biologically sensitive phases of the hen’s life — the transition from rearing to laying. The Critical Window: Light Stimulation to 70%...

One Health integrates human, animal, and ecosystem health to prevent diseases at their source. This integrated approach fosters collaboration across multiple sectors, disciplines and communities to optimize health outcomes, like diseases, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and food safety, through evidence-based policies and practices. For Ecolex Animal Nutrition, this holistic approach not only fuels feed additive innovations for better gut health, immunity, and productivity—but is complemented...