{"id":1105,"date":"2021-02-17T01:52:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-17T01:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zeorite.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1105"},"modified":"2021-02-19T07:23:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T07:23:18","slug":"zeogrit","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/product\/zeogrit\/","title":{"rendered":"ZeoGrit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.333; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;\">ZeoGrit importance and its interaction with gizzardImportance of grit and its interaction with gizzard<\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3em; padding-left: 2em; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">\n<li class=\"first\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">grit provides valuable minerals &#8211; needed for growth and egg shell formation<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">grit aids gizzard to grind better &#8211; affects the frequency of muscular contractionsin gizzard and consequently provides better feed utilization in digestive tract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.333; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;\">Function of the insoluble grit<\/h3>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">When present in the gizzard in reasonable quantities, flint-type grits have two main functions:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3em; padding-left: 2em; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">\n<li class=\"first\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">to divide and separate<\/span>\u00a0food particles so that the digestive, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enzyme\">enzyme<\/a>-likesecretions from the proventriculus and the mineral acid of the gizzard canpermeate freely<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">grinding and crushing<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">Both functions are dependent on normal gizzard motility. When the gizzard contains both solid food particles and grit, a masticating effect follows. Grass, leaves and grain undergo pulverization, and with each muscular contraction more vegetable cells are exposed to the action of the digestive juices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1.8em; text-align: justify; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">The grit aid better food utilization, and therefore may play an\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">economical<\/span>\u00a0and indeed important part in poultry husbandry.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-family: 'Roboto Slab', 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.333; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 1em; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;\">Benefits of ZeoGrit<\/h3>\n<ul style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 3em; padding-left: 2em; color: #000000; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; letter-spacing: 0.325px;\">\n<li class=\"first\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">zeogrit plays important role in enhancement <span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">mechanical digestion<\/span>\u00a0of gizzard, grit stimulates the secretion of digestive enzymes and consequently mixing of the enzyme with the ingest leads to\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">improved digestibility of feed<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">greater performance<\/span>\u00a0in broiler chickens<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/product\/zeogrit\/\">grit<\/a> aid gizzard&#8217;s grinding to break down\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">hard ingredients<\/span>\u00a0and thus more surface can be exposed to enzymes<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">improves the efficiency of feed utilization and enhances average feed intake<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">reduces cost of feed in broilers fed with grit, improves the utilization of feed by 30 %<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">improves daily\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">feed intake<\/span>, daily\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">body weight gain<\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">feed conversion ratio<\/span>\u00a0of chickens feed with grits<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">increases weight of gizzard in birds fed with grit, increases weight of gizzard in birds fed with grit, increasing gizzard weight might be the result of muscle movement acceleration, increases the thickness of gizzard muscles<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">dietary addition of grit\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">increases the digestive efficiency of ostriches\u00a0<\/span>and consequently promotes the nutrient assimilation and sustains performance in ostriches<\/li>\n<li style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">stone eating is natural behaviour in broilers, generally associated with animal welfare, for this reason, free choice of grit alleviates stress conditions and improves the animal welfare<\/li>\n<li class=\"last\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1.2em; list-style-type: none; line-height: 1.6em; text-indent: -1.5em;\">addition of grit in the diet of broilers significantly improves\u00a0<span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 600;\">weight gains<\/span>\u00a0and FCR<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"pos-subtitle\">MINERAL GRIT FOR POULTRY FARMING<\/h2>\n<div class=\"pos-meta perex\">\n<p>ZeoGrit increases poultry rearing efficiency, improves feed efficiency and improves animal welfare.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1105","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","5":"hentry","6":"product_cat-animal-feed-additive","8":"entry","9":"has-media","10":"owp-thumbs-layout-horizontal","11":"owp-btn-normal","12":"owp-tabs-layout-horizontal","13":"has-no-thumbnails","14":"has-product-nav"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/1105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zeorite.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}