Optimum Vitamin Nutrition provides all vitamins in the diet at levels that permit optimum health and productivity of domestic animals. The supplementation levels required to attain Optimum Vitamin Nutrition generally exceed the levels needed to prevent clinical deficiency signs. Optimum intake compensates for the many factors which can influence the animals requirements and the feed levels thus, ensuring that vitamin fortification does not limit performance.
These guidelines are ranges and based on extensive university and industry research, published requirements and practical experience. They accommodate most factors that influence the vitamin requirements of animals, how ever extreme feed processing conditions may necessitate overages of sensitive vitamins.
All figures are expressed in terms of vitamin activity. In general, amounts given are per kg air-dry feed, except for ruminants and horses. The listed vitamin levels are only guidelines and, in all cases, national feed legislation must be followed.
