"Zinc can play a role in improving not only the reproduction of the breeder but also the livability of the chicken from that egg". Dr. Mercedes Vazquez-Anon, senior director of animal nutrition, Novus International, spoke to Engormix about maternal feeding/epigenetics during IPPE 2020, in Atlanta, USA.

Around the globe, anticipated changes in livestock feed mineral inclusion regulations are shaking up historical approaches to mineral supplementation. This has led many to question not just how much mineral to add to various livestock rations, but also their source.

18 February 2020- Novus recently published a book entitled Nutrition of Hyperprolific Sows , intended to be a practical text offering nutritional solutions to help producers protect their margins and generate discussion about nutrition's role in addressing some of the welfare and production issues that have come up as sows are enabled to exceed their genetic potential.

All this means that it is time to call into question the nutritional models around which feeding programs are based and ensure that they are up to the task. Novus is contributing to this conversation with its recently released book Nutrition of Hyperprolific Sows.