EVALUATION OF TOYOCERIN, A PROBIOTIC CONTAINING BACILLUS TOYOI SPORES, ON HEALTH STATUS AND PRODUCTIVITY OF WEANED, GROWING AND FINISHING PIGS

摘要

During last years the use of probiotics in pig production has become an alternative to the wide use of antimicrobials as growth promoters (1). Probiotics act as growth promoters, nutritional bioregulators competing with harmful gut flora, stimulatorsof immune system of the animal and increases the body's resistance to infections diseases (2,3). Most of the investigations concern the use of probiotics in weaners. The purpose of the present study was to asses the effect of Toyocerin a probiotic containing Bacillus toyoi spores on the health status and the productivity of weaned, growing and finishing pigs.