An optimist's view on limiting necrotic enteritis and maintaining broiler gut health and performance in today's marketing, food safety, and regulatory climate

Poultry Science
Charles L HofacreGreg F Mathis

Abstract

The future poultry nutritionist, veterinarian, and husbandryman will have many new regulatory requirements and consumer preferences to navigate in addition to their normal responsibility of raising birds in a cost-efficient and wholesome manner. New challenges include changes to antibiotic use, increased food safety regulations, and more concern over how birds are raised and how to dispose of poultry house waste. All of these new programs and new regulations will alter how we have been raising birds for the last 60 years since the inception of the integrated poultry industry. The most significant change may be the voluntary or regulatory withdrawal of the use of antibiotics in poultry production. In North America, this withdrawal of antibiotic use includes removal of in-ovo antibiotics, performance-improving antibiotics or antibiotic growth promotors (AGP), and the polyether ionophore antibiotics (ionophore anticoccidials).The removal of antibiotics in poultry production may result in welfare concerns due to elevated mortality and less efficient feed conversion, resulting in greater environmental impacts from increased manure production and more use of grain per unit of meat produced. There also may be concerns with greater int...Continue Reading

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Apr 16, 2013·Avian Pathology : Journal of the W.V.P.A·Kerri J MorganLaryssa Howe
Aug 15, 2013·Avian Pathology : Journal of the W.V.P.A·Alaa Aldin AlnassanBerit Bangoura

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May 20, 2020·The Journal of Biological Chemistry·Cory Q WenzelChristine M Szymanski
Jun 2, 2021·Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition·Ayesha LoneRiadh Hammami

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