Despite good management practices necrotic enteritis is still a major cause of mortality in broiler growing. Research in Spain proved that adding probiotics to the diet will help in raising healthy birds and minimising the loss caused by this disease.Enteric diseases are an important concern to the poultry industry because of poor performance, increased mortality and reduced welfare of birds. In the last decades, antibiotics have been routinely supplemented to poultry feeds in order to control pathogenic and non-pathogenic enteric microorganisms and therefore, to improve growth performance. However, the ban of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) in the Ell has ended in a more complicated control of particularly enteric avian diseases.
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