Impact of physical form of animal diets

Lowering the grinding intensity of cereals used in compound feeds for pigs or including a share of native/intact cereals in poultry diets is recommended for gastrointestinal health. This not only avoids gastric ulcers in pigs or proventricular dilatation in broilers, but also promotes desired effects on the microflora. On the one hand it has been accepted worldwide for decades that ruminants need physically effective neutral detergent fibre (NDF) for a physiological development of the gastroint