Butyrate
ButyStar®
Ready to take health and growth to the next level? Discover the power of butyrates.
Improve gut health, immune function and stress levels in your animals? You need butyrates. Navigator Nutrition ButyStar solutions are designed to meet the unique needs of various livestock species, driving both performance and sustainability in your operations. ButyStar is a powerful feed additive that plays a crucial role in enhancing livestock health and productivity.
Butyrate for pigs and poultry
In pigs and poultry, ButyStar® stimulates the immune system and promotes optimal growth, thereby significantly reducing the reliance on preventative antibiotics. This contributes to healthier animals and supports responsible farming practices. Additionaly butyrate has a positive effect on cortisol levels.
Butyrate for dairy cows
For dairy cows, particularly dry cows, magnesium butyrate offers specific benefits by helping to restart the rumen function during the dry period. This targeted support ensures a smoother transition and better overall health for the cow.
What are butyrates?
Butyrate is a fatty acid that plays an essential role in animal nutrition. Our high-quality butyrates, calcium and sodium butyrate, provide a range of benefits for monogastric animals such as poultry and pigs. It supports these animals in maintaining a functioning immune system and good intestinal function. There is also a variant available for ruminants: magnesium butyrate. This not only provides butyric acid to a dry cow’s rumen, it also supplies the cow with additional magnesium.
Butyric acid
Butyric acid, or butanoic acid, is a short-chain fatty acid composed of four carbon atoms. It is naturally produced in monogastrics in the intestines through the fermentation of fiber-rich foods by gut bacteria. These fatty acids play a crucial role in the nutrition and metabolism of cells in the intestinal wall. Butyric acid serves as an important source of energy for enterocytes, the cells lining the intestinal wall. Additionally, it contributes to a healthy intestinal flora. When butyric acid is bound to a mineral we speak of butyrate.
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Benefits of butyrate
- Gut health: Butyrates promote intestinal health, provide more efficient nutrient absorption and reduce the risk of intestinal infections.
- Immune system boost: By strengthening your animals’ immune system, butyrates help to protect the animals’ health. Healthy animals are high performing animals.
- Improved growth: A healthier immune system and better gut health lead to improved growth rates in your animals. This means you stimulate natural growth by using butyrates, without relying on growth-promoting antibiotics.
- Lower cortisol levels: Inflammation can contribute to elevated cortisol levels. By reducing inflammation, butyrate can also lower cortisol production. Additionaly butyrate can stimulate the production of neurotransmitters such as GABA that have a calming effect and help to reduce stress.
Healthy animals are high productive animals.
Why choose Navigator Nutrition ButyStar®?
Our butyrates are distinguished by unique properties:
- High quality products: Proper coating provides product protection and helps control butyrate odor.
- Matrix coating: Provides desired distribution in the gastrointestinal tract for optimal effectiveness.
- Versatility: Navigator Nutrition offers several types of butyrate, including calcium butyrate and sodium butyrate for monogastric animals, in various ratios. We also offer magnesium butyrate for ruminants (dry cows).
Butyrates have become an important part of the animal nutrition industry. They offer numerous benefits, such as promoting intestinal health, strengthening the immune system and improving growth results. By choosing our high-quality ButyStar, you provide your animals with what they need to stay healthy and strong.
Integrate Navigator Nutrition ButyStar; boost growth and reduce reliance on antibiotics. Contact us today to learn more about the products, or find out more below.
Butyrate Products
Monogastrics
ButyStar Combo
Combination of coated sodium and calcium butyrate 70%.
ButyStar CE80
Calcium encapsulated butyrate – 80%.
Ruminants
Rumen Reset
Magnesium butyrate for dry cows: supports the cows health and performance.
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