ARS – USA RESEARCH – PIGLET REARING – HEALTHY BACTERIA
October 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEVETERINARIANS from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), in the US, have found a way to keep piglets healthier whilst reducing antibiotic use: administering beneficial bacteria. Researchers fed piglets patented bacteria called RPCF (recombined porcine continuous-flow) instead of antibiotics, to protect against several strains of the E. coli infection that kills many small pigs. The bacteria are given to pigs when farmers are processing them as newborns and act as a preventive treatment or vaccine. They attach themselves to piglets' intestinal ...
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