‘Last ounce of broiler growth is not the most crucial thing’

The Belgian broiler farmer Gunther Leenaerts has a healthy discussion with his parents to achieve the best technical results. “We currently only have a 2-day age difference between a number of broiler houses so there is constant competition, at least in the mind.” The technical results are indeed important, but no antibiotic usage is even more crucial. In the 1980s the parents of Gunther Leenaerts from Meer, Belgium, had 200 fattening pigs and 18,000 broiler places. In the years that foll