Poultry producers around the world face numbers of challenges, including feed raw materials costs, product quality and safety, consumer confidence
and the emergence and re-emergence of diseases.
These challenges can be tackled with keeping animals healthy, resilient against pathogens and efficient. In the past, antibiotics as a preventive measure were used to keep problems under control.
The use of probiotics (or direct fed microbials) in animal diets is becoming increasingly popular and considered as an effective alternative to Antibiotic Growth Promoters (AGP). In this whitepaper, we explain the different modes of action of probiotics, their benefits and application in animal diets and describe a new type of probiotic that is available for poultry: Microsaf®.