Protect swine gut health

Stronger guts. Safer feed.
More resilient pigs.

Reduce health and nutritional risks before they impact performance. Proven solutions support gut integrity and control mycotoxin risk to keep pigs healthy, efficient, and performing across all life stages.

Challenges in protecting swine gut health

Modern swine production faces increasing pressure from health, feed quality, and performance challenges that directly impact profitability and animal welfare. Key challenges include:

  • Maintaining gut integrity during stress periods such as weaning, feed transitions, heat stress, and disease pressure.
  • Reducing the reliance on antibiotics while sustaining performance and productivity.
  • Managing subclinical mycotoxin contamination that can silently impair immunity, gut function, reproduction, and growth performance.
  • Supporting a balanced microbiome to improve nutrient utilization and feed efficiency.
  • Ensuring consistent feed quality and safety in increasingly variable raw material conditions.

Mycotoxin Risk Management

Mycotoxins remain one of the most underestimated threats in swine production. Even low or subclinical contamination levels can negatively affect gut integrity, immunity, reproductive performance, and feed efficiency without obvious visible symptoms.

Hidden impacts of mycotoxins in pig production

  • Reduced feed intake and growth performance
  • Compromised intestinal barrier function
  • Increased disease susceptibility
  • Impaired reproductive performance
  • Synergistic effects between multiple mycotoxins

Download the dsm-firmenich mycotoxin survey on by-products and alternative feed components

Global contamination of key byproducts and alternative feed components is helpfully summarised in this PDF. From bread byproducts to sugar beet, rapeseed to straw, a whole range of feed components are sampled and analysed, with areas of concern highlighted.

Gut health management

Healthy gut function is fundamental to pig performance, feed efficiency, immunity, and resilience. Supporting the microbiome and protecting intestinal integrity can help pigs better cope with production stress while maximizing nutrient absorption.

Why gut health matters in swine

  • Supports nutrient digestion and feed efficiency
  • Strengthens immune resilience
  • Helps reduce the impact of production stress
  • Supports growth and lifetime performance
  • Contributes to reduced antibiotic reliance

Our Solutions

  • GutServ® Biotics

    GutServ® Biotics is specifically designed to keep pigs performing optimally, regardless of environmental challenges. By fortifying gut health, it promotes steady, healthy growth from the very start. This proactive support minimizes setbacks and maximizes the potential of your swine, allowing them to thrive efficiently. Whether piglets are under stress from weaning, dietary shifts, or environmental challenges, GutServ® Biotics helps sustain performance by reinforcing gut functionalities and supporting a balanced microbiome.

  • 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.

  • Biotronic®

    The Biotronic® line of state-of-the-art enhanced acidifiers support modern farm animals against Gram-negative bacteria.

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