How to safely cut antibioticin poultry production

摘要

The risk of disease in poultry production is ever present, but as livestock producers face growing pressure to eliminate preventive use of antibiotics, new and complex challenges have emerged.However, there are numerous strategies that can be followed to minimize disease risk and to ensure birds are better able to resist infection. These, along with emerging strategies to better target when and where treatment may be needed, came under the microscope at the Poultry Summit Europe 2016, which was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in mid-May.