Natural ways to fight E. coli around weaning

Does it take antibiotics to preventively reduce the existence of E. coli in the porcine gastro-intestinal tract? Not at all – there are several natural ways to fight the pathogen’s existence. Two recent field studies, using live yeast, resulted in a promising reduction of both mortality and morbidity due to pathogenic E. coli in newborn and weaned pigs.   By Dr Romain D’Inca, Lesaffre Feed Additives swine R&D manager, France   Over the past decades, various livi