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Aquaculture
Menhaden Fish Oil
Menhaden Fish Oil contains some of the highest levels of essential fatty acids from fish oil, making menhaden oil a cost effective and efficient choice to achieve optimal growth and development. The omega-3 fatty acids found in Menhaden Fish Oil have been shown to improve lipid composition, reproductive performance, and strengthen immunity.
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Virginia Prime® Gold Fish Oil
Virginia Prime® Gold Fish Oil contains a balanced concentration of the omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. Researchers have found the growth promoting capacity of EPA and DHA was considerable when an optimal balance of both fatty acids was incorporated into the diet.
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Special Select® Fish Meal
Formulating efficient protein and energy requirements in aquaculture rations is a challenge among aquaculture nutritionists. Special Select® Fish Meal provides over 60% protein, satisfying the crude protein to energy relationship in the desired nutritional range.
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Neptune Fish Concentrate®
Neptune Fish Concentrate® can provide benefits in aquaculture production including use as an attractant, as a fertilizer in grow-out ponds to help feed plankton and in improving pellet quality.Used typically at a 3-5% inclusion rate in both finfish and shrimp diets, Neptune Fish Concentrate® improves attractability and thus consumption.
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Beef & Dairy
SeaLac® Fish Meal
SeaLac® Fish Meal has an exceptional amino acid profile closely resembling that of milk and the microbial protein of ruminant animals. This provides quality protein post-ruminally where the most effective absorption occurs satisfying the individual amino acid requirements of the dairy cow. Lysine and methionine have been most frequently identified as the first-limiting essential amino acids in the metabolism of protein in dairy cattle. Fish meal has the highest combined bypass value for lysine and methionine than any other protein.
The amino acid profile found in SeaLac® fish meal provides beef cattle with the added nutrients needed to improve feed efficiency and average daily gain. Beef from fish meal supplemented cattle has higher omega-3 fatty acid content for consumers seeking out beef with a superior nutritional profile.
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Menhaden Fish Oil
Researchers from the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research in Aberstwyth, Wales, found beef cattle fed fish oil had increased levels of the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) deposited in the muscle rather than adipose tissue. It is possible that this may improve muscle texture leading to more tender beef.
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Virginia Prime® Gold
The addition of fish oil has been found to alter milk fat composition by increasing the levels of conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), omega-3 fatty acids, and other lipid ingredients without modifying the total milk fat to create healthier milk.
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Poultry
Menhaden Fish Oil
The omega-3 fatty acids, (Eicosapentaenoic Acid) and DHA (Docosahexaenoic Acid), found in fish oil have been shown to improve reproductive performance, strengthen immunity by reducing inflammation response to particular antigens, increase omega-3 fatty acids content in eggs and contribute to overall growth.
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Virginia Prime® Gold
Texas A&M found that enriching laying hen diets with 3% Virginia Prime® Gold Fish Oil for 18 weeks showed an increase in the n-3 yolk ratio from 18:1 to 3:1 without altering the egg production, weight, yolk fat or yolk cholesterol.
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Companion Animal
Virginia Prime® Gold Fish Oil
EPA and DHA function differently and offer their own unique health benefits. EPA reduces inflammation promoting skin and coat as well as bone and joint health while DHA promotes healthy brain development and trainability. Some oils such as tuna oil have high levels of DHA and low levels of EPA. It is important to have a source of fish oil like Virginia Prime® Gold that has a balanced concentration of EPA and DHA to provide all of the health benefits associated with these omega-3 fatty acids.
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Special Select® Fish Meal
Special Select® Fish Meal is highly digestible and low in potential allergens providing companion animals with the essential amino acids needed for optimum growth and development while caring
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Equine
OmegaEquis® Fish Oil
OmegaEquis® Fish Oil contains the omega-3 fatty acids, EPA and DHA. These nutrients have been found to improve performance and recovery, enhance trainability, support healthy skin and coat, and reduce inflammation in the bone and joints resulting in longer trot stride.
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Swine
Menhaden Fish Oil
Just like humans, newborn and early-weaned pigs do not have a fully-developed immune system and rely on their diet to strengthen it to defend against illness. Feeding fish meal at the proper inclusion levels may improve the immune function by improving dietary intake and reducing inflammation to help piglets stay healthy and free from illness.
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Virginia Prime® Gold Fish Oil
Virginia Prime® Gold Fish Oil can positively influence reproduction and immunity in swine. Feeding a nutritionally balanced diet is especially important during the reproductive phase. When boars were supplemented with 3% fish oil, their spermatozoa was significantly increased from 30% to 45% and the total amount of sperm per ejaculate was raised. At the University of Missouri researchers fed 3.5-7% fish oil to sows and reported that EPA levels in the sow’s milk were more than six times that of sow’s fed lard as the main fat supplement, with more than half of the effect occurring in the first week of treatment. This transfer of n-3 PUFA’s to nursing pigs could be responsible for strengthening the immune system of the neonate.
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Special Select® Fish Meal
The amino acid profile found in Special Select® fish meal resembles that of sow’s milk and baby pig tissue enhancing the gastrointestinal system of neonatal pigs. Improvement in growth is also seen in early-weened pigs when development is crucial and bolsters the pig’s resistance to numerous diseases.
