Our Key Research Topics
VerdantWays Inc. believes that high quality evidence is at the core of sustainability. Trials and meta-analysis are the best way to produce highest quality evidence. Clinical trials generate new high quality evidence where as meta-analyses methodology is very efficient one as it capitalized on the already published evidence and provides a summarized conclusion and guides future research. All these steps reduce research waste.1
Trials
🍀 Company: Biostar Nutri Products Inc.
🍀 Product: Gut Bio Balance Premix for Poultry
🍀 Trial Location: King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
About the Trial:
Biostar Nutri Products Inc., having signed a contract with VerdantWays Inc., will conduct a veterinary product trial in Saudi Arabia. This trial focuses on Gut Bio Balance Premix for Poultry, a natural solution designed to support poultry gut health and improve overall performance.
Objective:
The trial aims to assess the effectiveness of Gut Bio Balance Pre-Mix for Poultry in enhancing digestive health, boosting immunity, and promoting better growth in poultry.
🍀 Company: Optima Life Sciences
🍀 Product: Optibetaine
🍀 Trial Location: King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
About the Trial:
Optima Life Sciences, in collaboration with VerdantWays Inc., is conducting a veterinary product trial in Saudi Arabia. This trial focuses on Optibetaine, a specialized solution designed to enhance animal nutrition, improve metabolic efficiency, and reduce stress in livestock.
Objective:
The trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of Optibetaine in improving overall animal health and performance under diverse environmental conditions.
Hankkija
🍀 Company: Hankkija
🍀 Product: ProHumi®
🍀 Trial Location: University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan
About the Trial:
Hankkija, having partnered with VerdantWays Inc., is conducting a veterinary product trial at Sargodha University in Pakistan. This trial focuses on ProHumi®, a natural solution designed to support gut health and improve overall performance in monogastric farm animals.
Objective:
The trial aims to evaluate the effectiveness of ProHumi® in:
✅ Improving intestinal fermentation
✅ Enhancing nutrient absorption
✅ Promoting better growth and feed efficiency in monogastric farm animals
Published Papers
Analyzing the Effects of Feeding Black Soldier Fly on Broiler Growth Performance: A Meta-Analysis
Zafar Hayat https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0975-1594 A , Tuba Riaz https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8559-6346 A * , Youssef A. Attia B , Faran Hameed C and Fahad Javaid Siddiqui C
– Author Affiliations
A Department of Animal Sciences, College of Agriculture, University of Sargodha, Sargodha 40100, Pakistan.
B Department of Arid Land Agriculture, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah 21589, Saudi Arabia.
C VerdantWays Inc., 90 Royal Birkdale Court NW, Calgary, AB T3G 5R5, Canada.
* Correspondence to: tuba.riaz@uvas.edu.pk
The black soldier fly has been found to be a rich protein source, containing high amounts of protein and lipids, making them a valuable and sustainable alternative to conventional protein sources, such as fish and soybean meals, for broilers, which has also been demonstrated by multiple studies.
Aims
A meta-analysis was conducted using peer-reviewed published research on the use of black soldier flies in poultry diets to test the hypothesis that it enhances growth performance as a sustainable alternative to plant-based protein sources.
Methods
To this end, we used publicly available databases (Google Scholar, PubMed, Science Direct, Embase) to identify peer-reviewed papers. Retrieved articles were screened for relevance and quality using established criteria. The studies were largely rejected due to non-reporting of variance measures or reporting pooled measures of variance that could not be used. As a result, eight studies were used to extract data for growth performance, including body weight gain.
Key results
The meta-analysis showed that the effect of feeding black soldier fly meals on body weight gain was non-significant. However, the subgroup analysis showed that utilisation of the frozen form of the black soldier fly lowers body weight gain compared with the birds fed basal diets. Furthermore, the feed intake was significantly (P < 0.05) reduced when the broilers were fed with diets containing black soldier fly meals. The feed conversion ratio showed non-significant (P > 0.05) differences with the supplementation.
Conclusions
The inclusion level of black soldier fly larvae meal in any form was seen to be safe up to 10%, and the effective duration of the supplementation was ≤35 days.
Implications
The utilisation of black soldier fly as a sustainable protein source should be encouraged to facilitate farmers in terms of being less dependent on soybean meal, as well as to reduce the competition between humans and animals for plant protein sources.
1.-Macleod MR, Michie S, Roberts I, Dirnagl U, Chalmers I, Ioannidis JPA, et al. Biomedical research: increasing value, reducing waste. The Lancet. 2014 Jan;383(9912):101–4.
