As we strive to produce antibiotic-free turkey meat, maintaining intestinal health is more important than ever. Including Zinpro Performance Minerals in turkey diets has been shown to support key health benefits, including improved epithelial barrier support, enhanced gut integrity, better skin & respiratory system, and decreased pathogens in animal tissue — directly impacting the safety of the final product in consumers’ plates.

Without nutritional support, meat quality can be impacted by live production management, transportation, and storage conditions. Animals fed Zinpro Performance Minerals benefit from improved carcass quality with greater whole carcass skin integrity, reduced footpad dermatitis lesions, bone fractures, and meat oxidative reactions pre and post-mortem —minimizing storage losses in addition to drip and cooking losses.

Locomotion issues are common to turkey flocks, especially in heavier animals that have to distribute greater weight on their legs. The result is often femur spiral fractures, lameness and foot pad lesions, along with other welfare issues, such as aggressive behavior and pecking towards weaker birds. Zinpro Performance Minerals have been shown to support better bone quality and skeleton structure, enabling birds to grow and perform to their full genetic potential.

Turkey poults are very sensitive animals. To meet the demand for intensive care in the early stages of life, producers need to provide quality nutrition right from the start. Zinpro® performance solutions applied to turkey breeder diets have been shown to improve not only egg production performance and hatchability, but also the quality of progeny poults until market weight.