Strategies for reducing antibiotic use in chickens

Several nutritional and management strategies can be adopted to prevent disease and promote the growth of chickens, thereby reducing the need for antibiotics. These methods may require more labour, capital or material on farms, raising production costs. On a long-term basis, the increased costs of alternative methods to prevent disease are compensated for by the advantages gained when the use of antibiotics in the poultry industry is reduced – something which makes such alternatives economi