Reducing antibiotics: A case study

A large-scale study in the field, involving 40 million broilers, has now shown it is possible to reduce therapeutic antibiotic use by 59% while also reducing mortality by 28% and FCR by 5.3%. With 5 years’ worth of data from 11 German farms, this retrospective analysis investigates the real-life effects of different programmes over a total of 477 cycles. Farmers and integrators are actively developing strategies to assure animal health and maintain productivity. These usually involve a combi