INTERVIEW 50 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE June 2022 Interview: Derya Yildiz The vulnerability of day-old chicks to harmful pathogenic bacteria is one of the biggest problems in modern poultry farming. The protective beneficial bacterial flora transmitted from mother to chick in the natural environment needs to be provided externally with probiotics in hatcheries in modern production systems. If we wait for this flora to establish naturally after hatching, we can only reach the healthy flora of an adult chicken on the 21st day. Of course, during this time, the chick will not be able to fully defend against pathoA success story in PoultryStar® Hatchery: ANTIBIOTIC-FREE AND HEALTHY CHICKS Irfan Coban, General Manager, Biokey Gıda, Tarım ve Hayvancılık Ltd. Şti. “The best way to eliminate the risks faced by newly hatched chicks is to properly administer a multi-strain, species-specific probiotic to hatching chicks. Of course, it is critical to give the right probiotic with the right method and applicator. For example, in traditional systems, probiotics are applied to the chicks by spraying them with water at hatching. One of the disadvantages of this system is that the chicks get cold as a result of getting their feathers wet and they are exposed to stress. Therefore, even if the right probiotic is given at the right time, the desired results cannot be achieved due to the disadvantage of the application method, and the investment cost is also wasted.”
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