A decade from now, farmers and vets will have a whole new arsenal of medicines at their disposal to counter pigsector health and disease issues, Professor Richard Ducatelle, of Ghent University, Belgium, told delegates at Huvepharma's seminar in Bulgaria last month.He urged the gathering of vets and scientists to adopt new attitudes to pig gut health and the role that good microbes can play in enhancing the health, wellbeing and productivity of farm animals."Life in the past was relatively simple in that the industry developed broad spectrum antibiotics that killed the bad microbes," he said. "At the same time, we killed all the good microbes as well, of course.
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