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Avian Nutrition has a strong influence on health. 

Reproduction, Growth, Performance 

The Appliance of Science 

Newly expanded Nutrition Testing Services 

Vital insight into your bird’s nutritional intake 

Nutrition has a strong influence on health, reproduction, growth, and performance of an animal. A good feed that provides all necessary nutrients enhances the resilience of an animal and allows it to perform better. Good nutrition helps to speed up and to improve recovery and helps to improve resistance to diseases. A healthy look, shining feathers and good performances are largely the result of good nutrition. You cannot make good results without good nutrition in any loft, irrespective of lines or stock.  

Carbohydrates are a major source of fuel for pigeons; they regulate the pigeon’s temperature and provide energy. You might assume that our long-distance racers need a lot of carbohydrates, and you are correct, but proteins and fats can act as a fuel as well. Excess carbohydrates can be stored in the form of fats in the body, which is an important thing to know. 

There are two types of carbohydrates: the soluble and easily digestible carbohydrates such as sugar and starch and the carbohydrates that are harder to digest, such as cellulose. 

The percentage of carbohydrates in nutrition: Barley 68% — Corn 71% — Wheat 67% — Peas 59% — Beans 49% — Beer yeast 40% - Vetch 50% - Sunflower 16% - Linseed 24% - Hemp seed 20% - Rapeseed and Cole seed 16%. 

Diagnostic Laboratory Reports All reports are signed off by our Head scientist, MVB PhD DipECVM, who is EBVS® European top Specialist in Veterinary Diagnostics. In the absence of the Head scientist, reports will be signed by the Deputy Head scientist, PhD Candidate, MSc. Signees have individually over 25 years of expert experience in the field of poultry clinical & diagnostic microbiology, avian gut flora analysis and probiotic formulation, water and environmental microbiology, mycology, parasitology; internal and ectoparasites, feed analysis and nutrition.