How do you give chickens vitamin E?

How much vitamin E required for poultry?

I have been feeding broilers for a few years now.

I am currently feeding 400 IU of vitamin E/lb in the diet. My question is, how much vitamin E is required to produce optimal vitamin E levels in the meat?

Vitamin E is not the only antioxidant in the diet, so you need to make sure that the overall level of antioxidants in the diet is adequate. You can look at the requirements for vitamin A and other fat-soluble vitamins such as A, D, E and K in the NRC Poultry Nutrition Guide for the requirements per pound of meat. In that guide, optimal levels of vitamin E in the diet are based on the vitamin E requirement, while optimal levels of vitamin A and D are based on the required vitamin A and D levels. For example, a broiler needs 1.5 mg vitamin E (which is 400 IU), and requires 0.5 mg of vitamin A (0.25 mg of retinol activity). If the diet contains more than 1.5 mg vitamin E per lb of feed, then the broiler will meet its vitamin E requirement. If the diet contains more than 0.5 mg vitamin A per lb of feed, then the broiler will meet its vitamin A requirement.

If you want to know how much vitamin E is required for optimal levels of vitamin E in the meat, you have to look at the requirements for vitamin E in the diet. The general rule of thumb for vitamin E is that you need about 100 IU of vitamin E per pound of meat.

What happens to chickens with vitamin E deficiency?

Vitamin E deficiency has been used in the poultry industry for decades to slow feather degradation and leg weakness in broilers and layer pullets.

Research shows that a daily dietary supplementation of 0.1 to 0.3 IU/kg of DL--tocopherol acetate (-TAC) reduces leg deformities and slows feather degradation.

Poultry producers have known for years that vitamin E supplementation of young chickens will reduce the incidence of leg deformities. But as more poultry producers use genetic resistance selection programs, there is more and more emphasis on the inclusion of vitamin E to slow feather degradation and other leg deformities.

It has long been known that young chickens fed diets deficient in vitamin E will develop leg deformities, but it is not until recently that this information has made it into textbooks and poultry research articles. Now, one poultry feed mill that uses genetic resistance selection and a vitamin E supplement, ProMagne 1000 Tocopearle (Vitamin E, U.S. Pharmacopoeia), says it is the first to find that the vitamin E levels of the chickens' blood match with the vitamin E levels in the diet, providing a clear benefit to chicks fed diets fortified with vitamin E.

ProMagne Tocopearle, which is recommended for use in layer diets at levels of 0.2 to 0.5 IU/kg of diet, has been shown to slow the degradation of feathers and decrease the incidence of leg deformities in chickens that have been selected for genetic resistance to leg deformities.

"This is the first time I know of that blood levels are matched to the dietary levels," said Dennis Smith, DVM, MS, professor of medicine and pharmacology at Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind., who served as author of the most recent edition of Poultry Science's textbook on nutrition.

"The fact that the level in the blood matches what the manufacturer is using as the base for the level in the diet leads me to believe that this is a safe product to use for genetic resistance selection programs." Smith also is the chair of Purdue University's Department of Animal Nutrition and Management and the director of the Purdue Poultry Research Center, which does many of its nutritional studies on chickens selected for genetic resistance to leg deformities. "Vitamin E has been a nutritional aid for many years in protecting chicken lungs against oxidative damage," said Smith.

How do you give chickens vitamin E?

I know that I need to provide it to my chickens in their feed.

I don't see any mention of it in the wikipedia article about vitamin E. Can anyone help me? ? Thanks. Vitamin E is added to the feed, not the drinking water. The only vitamin E supplement that is approved for chickens is the liquid form, and it is called Vit E. It is available at all feed mills.

There are many supplements that are not approved for use in poultry. Thanks for the answer. Quote: Originally Posted by bdw. Sorry, but you are wrong. You can not add it to drinking water. If you do, you can be prosecuted. Vit E comes in a powdered form which is mixed with water and put into the feed.

What chicken feed is high in vitamin E?

I am reading about the benefits of vitamin E supplementation to chickens and would like to find a brand that I can use to supplement their diet. I'm having a difficult time finding information on which one is best, so I wanted to get some feedback from people who have experience.

To me, the main concern is whether the vitamin E is really helping them (which I'm sure it is) and whether it's the right kind (which I'm pretty sure it is). In my first post I said: I'm not sure if the E is actually helping the chickens. I'm also not sure what type of E is best for them.

And then I learned a little more about E. Which, I would guess, is the purpose of the forum.

The only product that I know of that has this kind of E is from A&A Vitamins and it's called Availin. It's a slow-release product. It's the only product that I know of that has this kind of E, and the only product that I've seen recommended for this kind of thing.

I've tried it, but it seems like it only lasted about a month before I had to replace it. I didn't want to buy a whole new package just to test it out, so I stopped using it.

I'm guessing that if I went back to the only other product that I know of that has this kind of E, I'd see about the same results. A&A Vitamins also makes a product called Availin with 10,000 IU E and another one called Availin with 5,000 IU E. Both have slow release.