Technology for Precision Feeding Research

United Animal Health’s Feed Kitchens enable highly controlled feeding trials at commercial scale. This system allows researchers to evaluate diet responses, feeding strategies, and ingredient technologies with precision. By monitoring intake and adjusting diets within individual pens, research teams generate detailed performance data to guide nutrition strategies in modern production systems.

The Feed Kitchen system can support up to 12,000 pigs at one time and more than 40,000 annually. Diets can be adjusted daily within each pen, allowing multiple treatments to be evaluated within the same barn under consistent and flexible research conditions.

Feed Kitchens serve as a critical tool for evaluating and comparing multiple diets across large groups of animals, expanding both the scale and precision of nutrition research.

The system integrates historical nutrition data, feeding curves, and real-time intake measurements. Researchers can monitor responses continuously and adjust diets to account for changing conditions, feed quality, and biological variation. Phase feeding strategies help optimize intake while minimizing cross-contamination.

Because feed represents the largest cost in animal production, more precise feeding strategies can drive meaningful economic outcomes for producers.