Animal Nutrition & Health
PROTECT YOUR FLOCK WITH CONFIDENCE

Efficient and sustainable poultry solutions


Reducing the risk of health and nutritional challenges at every life stage is essential for successful poultry production. With our comprehensive range of solutions at the heart of healthy development and welfare, we at dsm-firmenich help you address the challenges you face to protect your flocks with confidence.

Challenges in PROTECTing flock health

  • Increasing need to reduce the reliance of anticoccidial chemicals / ionophores and antibiotic growth promoters due to their resistance as well as the need for transition to ‘no antibiotic ever’ production.
  • Need to potentiate anticoccidial vaccines to avoid their impact on flock performance.
  • Stress conditions such as heat, vaccination, transport, etc., affect flock health.
  • Antimicrobial resistance and the consequences on performance.
  • Mycotoxins compromise gut integrity and predispose birds for disease challenges.

Coccidiosis Management

Reduce the reliance on anticoccidial chemicals and ionophores, boost the efficacy of cocci vaccines and overcome resistance challenges

Antimicrobial Reduction

Ensure the flock welfare by proactively managing stressors and their consequences on bird health and performance

Welfare Management

Ensure the flock welfare by proactively managing stressors and their consequences on bird health and performance

Mycotoxin Risk Management

Mitigate the risk of mycotoxins acting as predisposing factors to diseases and vaccine failure as well as overcome reproductive challenges

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Our approach

As the challenges facing the poultry industry evolve, so does our response. Our focus on efficient and sustainable poultry solutions provides a targeted, efficacious and consistent approach to help support global poultry production. 

By harnessing science and working in partnership with our customers, we're helping to deliver sustainable poultry production that respects animals, people and the planet while delivering the volume, price and margin customers demand and the poultry community is capable of supplying. Our three business lines — Essential Products, Performance Solutions + Biomin, Precision Services — offer an end-to-end portfolio addressing your needs.

Tackling your biggest challenges with our end-to-end portfolio

At dsm-firmenich, we recognize the challenges in today’s poultry industry and strive to find solutions that create a brighter future for generations to come. 

  • Delivering nutritional requirements
  • Optimizing raw material utilization 
  • Safeguarding feed and food quality and safety 
  • Ensuring sustainability and bird welfare
  • Supporting bird health 

Our Protect portfolio offering

  • Mycofix®

    The Mycofix® portfolio of feed additives represents the most state-of-the-art solution for protecting animal health by deactivating mycotoxins that contaminate farm animal feed. Its safety and efficacy are proven by 7 EU authorizations for substances that deactivate mycotoxins.

  • Hy-D®

    Hy-D® is the fast track vitamin D3 source, for a strong skeleton and better performance.

  • Balancius®

    Optimize nutritional absorption and digestion, so your broilers and turkeys get more from their feed. Balancius® is the only ingredient that overcomes hidden threats in the gut.

  • Symphiome™

    Symphiome™ is a complex glycan mixture technically defined as a Precision Biotic*. A first-of-its-kind microbiome metabolic modulator precisely designed to harness the power of the microbiome by modulating specific and highly conserved functional pathways to enhance the nutritional health and performance of the birds.

  • PoultryStar®

    A well-defined, poultry-specific, multi-species synbiotic product that promotes beneficial gut microbiota through the combined action of carefully selected probiotic microorganisms and prebiotic fructooligosaccharides.

  • OVN Optimum Vitamin Nutrition®

    OVN Optimum Vitamin Nutrition® is about feeding animals high quality vitamins, produced with the lowest environmental footprint, in the right amounts, appropriate to their life stage and growing conditions, to optimize: • Animal Health and Welfare ▶ good for animals • Animal Performance ▶ good for farmers • Food Quality & Food Waste ▶ good for consumers and the planet

  • Mycotoxin Contamination

    Our portfolio of tools helps to understand the potential risks of mycotoxins for animal species and location.

  • Verax™

    Harness the power of data to get a deeper understanding of the overall health, productivity and welfare of your animals.

  • Sustell™

    Sustell™ is an intelligent sustainability service that combines the most advanced environmental foot printing calculation tool with expert sustainability, animal production and nutritional knowledge to create tailor-made, practical solutions and business development projects that enhance the environmental sustainability and profitability of animal farming. Sustell™ unlocks the value of animal production sustainability.

  • CRINA®

    Our specific blends of essential oil components have shown to help deliver a better balance of gut microflora.

  • ProAct 360™

    dsm-firmenich is the first and only supplier to launch its second generation feed protease, ProAct 360™, in order to further reduce production costs, while making animal production even more sustainable.

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