Focusing on gut health in poultry is helping producers improve their bottom line.
Dr. Marc Hepfer, VP of New Technologies, with Oil-Dri Corporation of America. “With something like Phylox, our new product, based on a lot of field and farm scale and in vivo trials, as well as University and controlled studies, we’ve seen 1%, sometimes even higher, of an increase in feed conversion ratio,” he says.
He tells Brownfield Phylox was launched in 2021 to help poultry producers fight coccidiosis, a disease found in birds and mammals that affects the intestines, with natural alternatives.