Maintaining your pigs’ optimal health and well-being will definitely provide you with more benefits and good results in the long run. While there are many ways for you to achieve this goal, you can start by including Bexan SP, a B-complex injectable solution, to their regimen.
Bexan SP has a Resistanya-Gana formula that includes double doses of Vitamin B12, liver extract, and folic acid. Bexan SP aims to increase appetite, promote growth, boost immunity, and improve embryo survival and milk quality among breeders.
But what exactly makes Bexan SP special? You’d want to take a closer look at the nutrients that can make this solution beneficial for you.
Count on These Nutrients in Bexan SP
What makes Bexan SP such a potent solution for pigs would be some of the nutrients found in the formula, particularly B vitamins. These are water-soluble vitamins that are needed for metabolic processes since they act as coenzymes and help with these processes in the long run. Some B vitamins that are in Bexan SP include:
- Vitamin B2 (riboflavin): It’s needed in enzymes that promote protein, carbohydrate, and fat metabolism. One study showed that pigs who were fed a vitamin B2-supplemented casein-glucose diet for 18 days experienced quicker weight gain compared to another group of pigs fed with a vitamin B2-unsupplemented diet.
Consequently, increased vitamin B2 supplementation also helped increase selenium concentrations in the liver and the heart, and reduce plasma selenium levels. The addition of vitamin also helped promote increased selenium retention and reduce the chances this mineral would be excreted via urine. However, it has to be taken into consideration that the dietary selenium source given to the pigs played a major role in vitamin B2’s effectiveness for the animals.
A Vitamin B2 deficiency can trigger non-specific signs in pigs like low growth rate and intake, skin lesions, rough hair coat, diarrhea, and reproductive failure. - Vitamin B3 (niacin): Enzymes involved in multiple metabolic reactions can benefit from the addition of Vitamin B3. Research has shown that 13 to 55 mg/kg of added dietary niacin can improve meat quality and help with weight gain. If pigs don’t get enough vitamin B3, they’re at a risk for deficiency and health problems like skin lesions, rough hair coat, hair loss, diarrhea, vomiting, and digestive tract lesions.
- Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid): This vitamin is considered an important component of enzymes that help with protein, carbohydrate, and fat metabolism. One study showed that feeding finishing heavy pigs high amounts of vitamin B5 produces animals with higher amounts of lean cuts and a lower quantity of adipose cuts, without affecting the meat’s quality.
Failure to give your pigs enough vitamin B5 can lead to a deficiency that may cause low growth rate, low intake, rough hair coat/s, diarrhea, reproductive failure, and/or gait disorder in the rear legs. - Vitamin B6 (pyridoxine): This particular B vitamin plays a major role as an enzyme for amino acid metabolism. When administered as a supplement for sows, vitamin B6 is said to help improve litter size and wean-to-estrus interval. One study also revealed that pigs’ growth performance improved when they consumed diets with vitamin B6 0 to 14 days after weaning.
- Vitamin B12: Much like other B vitamins, vitamin B12 is needed for enzymes that help with metabolic functions. It also has a key role in major pathways that provide energy for the pigs’ body, helps form proteins from amino acids, synthesizes purine and pyrimidine, and in transfer of methyl groups. Not getting enough vitamin B12 can result in a deficiency, with indicators like anemia, low growth rate and intake, rough hair coat, incoordination, and reproductive failure.
Aside from these B vitamins, another important nutrient found in Bexan SP is folic acid. It’s essential for pregnant pigs, and helps improve litter size and quality of live born piglets. More importantly, folic acid plays a role in synthesizing components that are needed for cell development and function. Results of one study showed that vitamin B12 supplementation helped improve elevating sow serum folate, milk folate, and nursing pig serum folate, and even helped increase litter size.
How to Properly Administer Bexan SP
When administering Bexan SP to your pigs, take note of these dosage recommendations for various life stages:
- Sucklings: Inject 1 ml of solution on Day 10 and Day 25
- Starters: Inject 3 ml of solution on Day 60
- Sows and Gilts: Inject 5 ml of solution before breeding and after farrowing.
- Boars: Inject 5 ml of solution every month
You may also administer Bexan SP during periods of stress and when pigs are recovering from diseases. Depending on their life stages, make sure to inject 1 to 5 ml. You can also consult a veterinarian to determine how much Bexan SP would be suitable for your pigs, or if any of them experience side effects. To know more about Bexan SP and other solutions that can improve your pigs’ health, visit the UNAHCO website today.
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