date:Sep 15, 2012
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Co-author of the study Matthew Koci explained that microbials are not a direct replacement for the sub-therapeutic antibiotics but an opportunity through a different mechanism.
The study consisted of nearly 200 one-day-old broiler chicks, which were given different diets. One diet was a standard control starter diet and the second was a control starter diet with direct-fed microbials. Researchers then injected 12 chickens from each group with sheep red blood cells at seven days old as well