Phytogenics reduce the need for antibiotics

Reducing antibiotics use in livestock production has become a necessity to tackle antimicrobial resistance and also a public health matter. In ruminants, a fair share of the antibiotics used as treatments is directed to calves. Another regular use of antibiotics, although not considered as therapeutics, is to improve performance by including ionophores in the diet of dairy or beef cattle. Delacon has designed specific phytogenic-based solutions to offer alternatives to these different topics.