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The trend toward using fewer antibiotics in poultry production has placed more emphasis on other means of disease management, including vaccination and nutrition. In fact, the rise of vaccination has made it possible for poultry operations to become flexible with their nutrition programs.
For decades producers built their feed program around in-feed anticoccidials, as well as antibiotic growth promoters. As poultry operations move away from these drugs, they find they can tailor their feed program to suit the nutritional needs of their birds, not the rotation pattern or withdrawal times associated with their feed medications.
This trend gave birth to the IDEA concept, a new approach to managing broiler feeds. IDEA stands for Impulse, Digestibility, Economic and Advance — all key concepts that make up the concept’s foundation.
The IDEA concept seeks to enhance immunity development and reduce intestinal challenges by coccidia and bacteria without the use of drugs, while also giving poultry companies the opportunity to better manage nutrition for birds. It potentially reduces feed costs while conditioning the gut for better management on necrotic enteritis, coccidiosis and other enteric infections.
Click on the links below for more information.
- Proceedings: IDEA - Changing paradigms in poultry nutrition and management (PDF)
- Management and environment play a role in improving the bird’s intestinal health (PDF)
- Nutrition is key building block of successful, drug-free production (PDF)
- Charting the course for intestinal health (Link)
- Changing paradigms in poultry nutrition and performance (Link)
- Intestinal fortitude: Understanding the real cause of intussusception in broiler breeders leads the way to effective control (Link)
- Vaccination enables more flexible diet (Link)
- Gut decisions: Managing nutrition to optimize intestinal health programs (Link)
- Using vaccination to optimize your nutrition program (Link)
- Formulating feeds for birds that have been vaccinated for coccidiosis (Link)
- Switching to coccidiosis vaccine doesn’t have to cause headaches at the feed mill (Link)
- Managing intestinal health without feed antibiotics — a practical approcah (Link)
- Importance of intestinal health – Dr. Stephen Collett
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