BioComplex Boost is a FEMAS certified hygiene product that improves animal health, behaviour, performance and profitability by reducing pathogens & ammonia in livestock houses. Full benefits include:
Creating a healthy environment for animals is crucial to their longer term welfare. Ekogea’s BioComplex Boost is a 100% natural, organic marine algae product that does just that.
When applied to the bedding or to animal housing as a mist or spray it provides a variety of benefits by reducing pathogen levels and encouraging competitive exclusion.
This results in:
In treated animals farmers have seen healthier animals, an improvement in FCR and lower levels of animal-specific disease and mortality resulting in an improved financial performance for the farmer.
BioComplex Boost gets to work on the farm and environmental pathogens by boosting positive microbes and promoting competitive exclusion within the animal house environment.
It has a cumulative effect so the level of pathogens reduce within the animal house on successive applications to improve its physical and financial performance.
An additional benefit of BioComplex is its ability to chemically convert the toxic gaseous ammonia in the faeces into a non-toxic crystalline ammonium.
Polyuronic Acid chemically alters ammonia and sulphur dioxide gas into crystalline forms, reducing airborne contamination and odour.
This improves the environment within the house by reducing odour and ammonia volatisation and provides a healthier environment for both animals and stockpersons, and reduces the requirement for ventilation and associated energy costs.
Lower ammonia emissions assist intensive agriculture to meet the demands of the EA, NRW, and SEPA. It also helps comply with targets set out in the government’s Clean Air Strategy 2019
Total nitrogen within the bedding remains the same, however, plant available nitrogen increases so it has greater value as a fertiliser.
It also reduces leaching and helps farmers comply with new standards from the Environment Agency, Natural Resources Wales and Scottish Environment Protection Agency.
The use of BioComplex Boost also improves its value as a feedstock in anaerobic digestion.
It is suitable for all animals including pigs, poultry, ruminants and horses.
It is straightforward to use and when applied regularly it naturally improves the environment of the house/shed and health of your animals.
BioComplex Boost can be safely added with other disinfection products (phenols, aldehydes, etc) to an orchard sprayer or fogger as part of the final application prior to spreading the bedding material.
It can also be added to the bedding material during loading or sprayed directly onto it after it is spread in the house.
BioComplex is derived from marine algae processed in a unique way. It works by improving the balance of beneficial microbes in the housing environment.
Establishing healthy microbial diversity is key to efficient hygiene, feed conversion and nutrient assimilation.
The use of Ekogea’s BioComplex Boost enables beneficial microbes to naturally outcompete pathogens, promoting competitive exclusion.
The unique way in which BioComplex is processed leaves high levels of available natural organic acid and sugars. Two key elements that act together to improve the gut biome are:
Simple sugars which encourage an increase in the number and diversity of beneficial organisms within the gut.
Provide a natural protection against toxins and pathogens and act as a buffer to prevent them being absorbed by the gut. It has a high capacity for ion exchange which buffers metals and toxins.
BioComplex Boost has a positive effect upon many of the key performance criteria in the life cycle of animals:
A 4% average increase in daily live weight gain is achieved in high performing crops.
Crop cycle can be reduced providing savings in feed and increased crop income.
Increase in bird weight, better feed conversion rates and reduced cycle times through poultry housing.
Farms using BioComplex Boost have seen reductions in mortality. Improved hygiene and environment helps the animals fight infection from pathogens and toxins and is associated with improved general health which can lead to lower medication use.
On farm trials have also shown significantly lower levels of hock burn and pododermatitis within crops where symptoms were previously evident. This reduces the rate of rejects, increasing the profit margin of each crop.
Reduced levels of ammonia within the house, improving the animal house environment, the wider environment and general animal health. This reduces the required outlay for ventilation systems, especially those requiring retro fit.
Taking all the benefits of BioComplex Boost into account, including improved weight gain and feed conversion ratios, lower mortality and improved general health, farms can expect to double their investment on each batch treated.
In October 2020, a West Midlands farmer started a three crop trial applying BioComplex Boost to his poultry house bedding.
The recycled grade-A woodchip was treated prior to being loaded at the bedding plant at a rate of 0.5 litre BioComplex Boost per ton of bedding at a dilution rate of 1:10 (BioComplex Boost to water):
The farm has seen an improvement in both the average weight and FCR of the flock producing a significant increase in the farm’s margin in terms of pence per m2 per week.
The grower has been impressed with the results and the relatively low cost of using it. He is now using BioComplex Boost as part of his bedding program and has also incorporated it into bedding on another farm. This represents a 20:1 return on investment.
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