Mineral technology beneficial to gut health

Mineral technology beneficial to gut health

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.

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