VETERINARY PREPARATION CONTAINING AN ANTIBIOTIC MIXTURE OF GENTAMICIN AND LINCOMYCIN AS AN ADDITIVE TO DRINKING WATER OR ANIMAL FEED AND ITS USE IN PIG BREEDING

摘要

Described is new veterinary preparation, which is added to drinking water or to animal feed for pigs and contains 1 part by weight of lincomycin and 1 to 10 parts by weight of gentamicin or their pharmaceutically acceptable acid addition salts in a usual carrier for the use in the prophylaxis and therapy of dysentery and colibacilliosis and in the prophylaxis of enzootic pneumonia of pigs and hence for in-creasing the gain in their body weight. The new veterinary preparation for pig breeding has shown improved characteristics reflecting in a reduction of total losses and deaths with symptoms of diarrhea and pneumonia, in a decrease of the percentage of poorly developed pigs and in the ab-sence of their deaths, in a decrease of the conversion, and in an imprnvement of the average daily gain in the body weight.