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Animal Nutrition

Animal nutrition for livestock, aquaculture, and companion animals.

At BASF, we have extensive experience in supporting farmers and farming. Our BASF Animal Nutrition business is built on proven, high-performing, and sustainable solutions that have helped farmers worldwide enhance the quality and productivity of their livestock, aquaculture, and companion animal feed.

We understand that sustainable feed solutions are critical to the future of the industry. That's why we're committed to focusing even more sharply on the science of sustainable feed. Our goal is to help you achieve more efficient, cost-effective, and environmentally friendly animal feed production.

Whether you're looking for feed additives for your livestock, aquaculture, or companion animals, our team of experts can help you find the right solution. We offer a wide range of animal nutrition products that are tailored to meet the unique needs of different species and production systems.

If you're interested in learning more about our feed additives and how we can help you shape the future of the industry, please don't hesitate to contact us. We look forward to working with you!

BASF Animal Nutrition – the science of sustainable feed that succeeds.

Your challenges - Our solutions

As a reliable partner to the animal nutrition industry, we are here to help you meet the challenges ahead. Learn more about the solutions we offer for the feed sector:

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Sustainability

We want to contribute to a sustainable future with enhancing quality of life, good health and well-being. BASF Animal Nutrition does so by giving priority to sustainable solutions, technologies and production processes, and by driving partnerships and creating chemistry for our customers and society.
Sustainability
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Digestibility & Feed Conversion

Improved feed conversion and faster body weight gain – increasing nutrient utilization of feed is an important lever for a sustainable animal protein production.
Digestibility & Feed Conversion
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Feed Preservation & Feed Hygiene

We provide ingredients that help optimize the nutrient content, hygiene and quality of harvested feed.
Feed Preservation & Feed Hygiene
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Pigmentation

Everyone who cares about food should care about its color. Color is more than just good looks; it is important for taste, for appeal, and for perceived quality of food. In our animal nutrition portfolio, we offer high-quality carotenoids for poultry and aquaculture. 
Pigmentation
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Vitality & Wellbeing

We’re developing feed ingredients that keep a wide range of domestic animals, from poultry and pigs to ruminants, shrimp, farmed fish and companion animals healthy, vital and energetic.
Vitality & Wellbeing

Find the product you are searching for

Our product portfolio for animal nutrition includes feed ingredients such as vitamins, carotenoids, enzymes, CLAs, clay products and much more! Select your feed ingredient product group below or enter the product name and navigate directly to the information you need:

Find your species

At BASF Animal Nutrition, we're developing feed ingredients for a wide range of domestic animals, from poultry and pigs to ruminants, shrimp, farmed fish and companion animals. Find your species below!

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Aquaculture

Aquaculture or aquafarming is the farming of fish, crustaceans and shellfish in salt and fresh water. With demand rising by two to three percent every year and many marine fish stocks already overfished, more than half of all fish and seafood now comes from aquaculture, which has grown at a double-digit clip for decades.
Aquaculture
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Companion Animals

BASF products contribute to the fitness and vitality of dogs, cats and other pets so that they may spend many joyful years as part of the family. Vitamins give them everything they need for their metabolism. And Novasil™ Plus ensures that aflatoxins cannot do them any harm.
Companion Animals
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Dairy Cows

Superior provision for dairy cattle. Dairy farmers carry a large number of responsibilities. They are to manage their farms successfully, ensure the wellbeing and health of their dairy cows, and engage in sustainable practices. BASF provides an ample range of products and solutions for these diverse challenges.
Dairy Cows
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Pigs

Pigs are monogastric (single stomach) animals and are inefficient digesters of fibre. Their nutritional requirements for optimal and healthy growth and performance are influenced by different factors such as e.g. the genetic potential, age and body weight or the physiological state.
Pigs
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Poultry

Poultry demand is growing by two to three percent every year and will continue to expand with nine billion people consuming ever-larger amounts of eggs and poultry meat by 2050. Producing poultry and eggs in turn comes with more and more challenges.
Poultry
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Ruminants

Demand for meat and milk is increasing by two to three percent each year and will continue to grow. At the same time, the agricultural land available for feed production will remain limited. Meat producers and dairy farmers must meet the ever-growing global demand for high-quality meat and milk while resources become scarcer and commodity prices fluctuate unpredictably.
Ruminants

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About us

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What we stand for

With long-term experience in supporting farmers and farming, and a feed ingredients business built on proven, high-performing and sustainable solutions, we want to help you shape the future of the industry. And the way we will do this is by focusing still more sharply on the science of sustainable feed.
How we support the feed industry

Latest News

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Start-up of new vitamin A formulation plant in full swing

The state-of-the-art plant has been constructed using BASF’s vast formulation expertise in vitamins and incorporates several decades of operational experience which will further enhance reliable operations.
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Expansion of world-scale vitamin A formulation plant heads for the finish line!

As announced last year, we are currently expanding our world-scale vitamin A formulation plant in Ludwigshafen, Germany, fully integrated into the vitamin Verbund.
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Nutriforum 2023

We really enjoyed the personal exchange with you at this year's Nutriforum in Lleida, Spain. Together with our colleagues and partners from trinamiX GmbH we presented our innovative Mobile NIR Spectroscopy Solution for animal feed for precise, instant nutritional analysis. 
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BASF's organic acids receive DLG certification

BASF Animal Nutrition successfully participated with three products of its organic acids in the annual quality tests of the DLG e.V. - German Agricultural Society for silage additives. 
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