(1) Balance the microbiota and regulate intestinal transit improves animal welfare and productive parameters.

(2) The intestinal microbiota includes the community of micro-organisms that living in the different sections of the intestine of animals. Its components begin colonization at very early ages and adapt to the different conditions imposed by the intestine (mucosa cellular tapestry, gastric, liver, pancreatic secretion…) and other components of the microbiota.

It is currently considered that the cecum houses the reservoir of this community of microorganisms.

The first veterinary research dates from 1974 and the researchers that participated in them were who founded Biovet S.A. in 1984.

(3) Physiological intestinal transit is the fruit of peristalism, an involuntary contraction of the smooth muscle fibers of the wall of the digestive system. there are different causes that can affect the peristaltic rhythm, slowing it down or accelerating it, such as dehydration, salinity of drinking water, poor quality of fats, fungal-bacterial or parasitic toxins, among the main. At Biovet we started research on the regulatory raw materials of intestinal transit in the mid-2010s.

(4) Thus, balance the microbiota and regulate transit have become fundamental premises of all nutrition and management plan in all types of animals and in all types of production system.

(5) There are several attempts to balance the microbiota by giving priority to the community of beneficial microorganisms: 

5.1 Antibiotics (miscalled growth promoters) that reduce the general microbial load, also the beneficial.
5.2 Probiotics that intend to introduce a new beneficial load to the digestive system.
5.3 Pronutrients with a prebiotic effect, which act by nourishing part of the beneficial microbiota, or reducing the growth of its harmful part.

(6) The observation of nature allows us to know that wild animals regularly ingest small amounts, without nutritional value, of minerals and plants in order to regulate their peristalism and regulate the environmental conditions of their intestine.

(7) The research carried out on the subject of minerals leads us to the development of “ALQUERFEED DIATOM“, a composite of specific and activated marine diatoms that increases intestinal transit time by 8%.

(8) The research carried out on the subject of plants leads us to the development of “ALQUERNAT BIOTA“, a compound of vegetable extracts or aqueous solutions that increases, in the gut, the level of beneficial microbiota and reduces the level of harmful microbiota.

(9) The improvement obtained by the use of ALQUERFEED DIATOM™ and ALQUERNAT BIOTA™ is reflected at the level:

9.1 Histological in the improvement of tight junctions, the depth and amount of microvilli
9.2 Microbiological in the C.F.U. counts of the target microbial species
9.3 Zootechnician in the improvement of production parameters
9.4 Economic in the reduction of the use of products to correct pre-pathological and pathological states derived from rapid transit or from the predominance of harmful microbiota.