Due to the presence of Thiosulfate Blue, the ileitis vaccine gives the feed a blue shade. This helps to monitor that the feed including the vaccine reaches the right pigs. Photo: Boehringer Ingelheim
Adding a vaccine to liquid feed – until recently this was an uncommon approach in the European Union. It has become possible for vaccination against ileitis. How does that work in practice? Due to the rising public pressure on the use of antibiotics in food producing animals, the demand for alternative methods to control bacterial diseases in pigs has increased. Oral live vaccination has proven to be a successful and sustainable tool in controlling ileitis, globally the most common enteric di
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