Building a livestock industry where the microbial balance of the animal and its environment is optimised to eliminate reliance on toxic chemicals and routine medication.
THE WELLBEING RETURN
The case for welfare is also the case for the balance sheet, and it runs in one direction. Each step below leads to the next.
Comfort shows up as behaviour. A bird with a settled gut eats to appetite, drinks freely, rests properly and moves around the house. That is the foundation everything else is built on.
An intact, well-colonised gut absorbs what the ration was formulated to deliver. Feed is around two-thirds of the cost of production, so efficiency at the gut wall is the single largest lever on the cost of a kilo of meat or a dozen eggs.
Birds that stay well take less looking after. Fewer interventions, fewer walk-throughs that turn into jobs, less remedial work and fewer surprises across the life of the flock. Lifetime care cost falls, and so does the demand on your stockpeople.
Feed converted, output held steady and care cost reduced all land in the same place: a better return on every pound and every hour invested in the flock. Wellbeing is the mechanism, and the margin is the result.
PUT A NUMBER ON IT
Feed efficiency moves the P&L faster than almost anything else on the unit. Enter your own bird numbers and your own feed price, and the calculator shows what a movement in feed conversion is worth at your scale.
OPEN THE SAVINGS CALCULATOROUR RANGE
Two products · 3 life stages · twelve SKUs
Build the community early.
A six-organism lactic acid bacteria consortium that settles into the gut early and keeps working through the growing period. Ekogrow goes into the ration. Ekogrow Sol goes down the drinking line, which suits hot climates, placement week and any point where feed is already mixed.
Hold the balance under load.
Three spore-forming organisms selected to hold microbial balance while the bird is working hardest. Ekoshield is built for the mill and survives standard commercial conditioning. Ekoshield Sol puts the same community into the drinking line for targeted periods — placement, ration changes, transport, warm weather.
“We work with nature. We fortify it, and the bird feels the difference.”
ONE WITH NATURE
THE NEXT STEP
Wellbeing on this scale is a technical achievement. Our technology page sets out what our products do inside the bird — feed conversion, gut balance, resilience through the stages the bird finds hardest — and then opens up the science that sits underneath it.
HOW WE DO THIS →Tell us the species, the stage and the outcome you are working towards, and our technical team will come back to you within two working days.
info@ekome.co.ukWHAT HAPPENS NEXT
