Beyond AGPs: Controlling necrotic enteritis through gut health optimization
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Antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) have routinely been used in intensive poultry production for improving birds’ performance. However, in recent years, reducing the use of antibiotics in animal production has become a top priority, due to concerns about the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and mounting consumer pressure. Multiple countries have introduced bans or severe restrictions on the non-therapeutic use of antibiotics, including in the US, where the Food and Drug Administration has implemented measures to curb the use of antibiotics since 2017.
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Want antibiotic-free broilers? Start with antibiotic-free broiler breeders
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Strong demand by consumers, restaurant chains and wholesalers for antibiotic-free (ABF) meat, the threat of antimicrobial resistance, and stringent regulations on the use of antibiotics: there are many good reasons for poultry producers to strive for antibiotic-free production systems. Crucially, to produce successfully produce poultry meat without antibiotics requires a paradigm shift that starts right at the parent stock level, with the antibiotic-free production of hatching eggs.
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Challenging times for broilers? Phytomolecules, not antibiotics, are the answer
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Anyone working with today’s fast-growing broiler chicken knows that it is a sensitive creature – and so is its gut health. Thanks to continuous improvements in terms of genetics and breeding, nutrition and feeding, as well as general management strategies, broiler production has tremendously upped performance and efficiency over the past decades. It is estimated that, between 1957 and 2005, the broiler growth rate increased by over 400%, while the feed conversion ratio dropped by 50%.
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Phytomolecules: Boosting poultry performance without antibiotics
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In intensive poultry production most antibiotics are used as antimicrobial growth promoters and/or used as prophylactic and metaphylactic treatments to healthy animals. Reducing such antibiotic interventions is crucial to lowering the incidence of AMR. However, antibiotic reduction often results in undesirable performance losses. Hence alternative solutions are needed to boost poultry performance. Phytomolecules have antimicrobial, digestive, anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, which could make them key to closing the performance gap.
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Phytomolecules: A tool against antibiotic-resistant E. coli
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In this article we explore in detail how AMR happens and how phytomolecules, which have antimicrobial properties, could be a key tool to reduce the need for antibiotics in animal production.
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