INTERVIEW 54 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE June 2022 and effects of our new product, PoultryStar® Hatchery, they were also warm to this application and so we started our work. First of all, application and installation training was provided to Biokey personnel by the Biomin team. After that, the necessary equipment for the application was brought to Turkey. The installation of the PoultryStar® Hatchery gel application system was carried out by the Biokey team, and the hatchery team of the enterprise was informed about the application system and information about the application and maintenance. Since it is a system that is easy to use and does not need electricity, it has started to be used easily by the hatchery team. With this applicator, which works with air pressure and pulverization method, the application is made in such a way that the gel droplets are evenly distributed over 80 chicks in each hatching box passing through the band. At this stage, it is important to correctly adjust the amount of product given to all chicks by gel droplets. Therefore, the applied product must be atomized and pulverized. So what are the results obtained from this application? We know that there are some important results such as the absence of cases such as coccidiosis and necrotic enteritis, and a decrease in mortality. What can you share with us in more detail about the results? The main goal of the integration with which we started the PoultryStar® Hatchery application was to reduce the use of antibiotics. Our customer stated that in addition to the successful results in antibiotic reduction after PoultryStar® Hatchery application, there were no cases of coccidiosis and necrotic enteritis, and mortality was significantly reduced. In addition, another important result that makes us happy is that the PoultryStar® Hatchery application has become an important link in the Salmonella control strategy in one of Turkey's largest integrations. You stated that this practice reduces the use of antibiotics? Can you explain this a little more? It has been scientifically proven repeatedly that early antibiotic use adversely affects the intestinal microbiota and immune development of the poultry. Short-term oral perturbation of birds with an antibiotic at an early stage affects microbial colonization and intestine immunity, resulting in disruption of the gut microbiome at a young age. Early microbiota colonization, particularly in the intestine, is an important driver of immune development and/or immune programming. Early application of PoultryStar® as an alternative to early antibiotic use has been shown to greatly improve the health of day-old chicks. This practice inoculates beneficial bacteria into the intestines creating competitive exclusion against opportunistic bacteria and allows their immune systems to mature. Thus, it significantly reduces the possible need for antibiotics. Is the PoultryStar® Hatchery application already being tried in other businesses? That is to say, are there any other experimental studies and applications that give the same results? Recently, we have established and started working on another PoultryStar® Hatchery application in one of the important poultry integrated facilities in Turkey. Currently, we have had two customers implementing PoultryStar® Hatchery in Turkey. We are still negotiating and experimenting with some of the important companies. The number of our interested customers is also increasing. Finally, what else would you like to add? I would like to say that as the Biokey team, we are proud to implement PoultryStar® Hatchery in Turkey's largest plants, to plan and realize every stage of the project, and to see the successful results. It was also important for us to present a pioneering application such as PoultryStar® Hatchery to the knowledge of the Turkish poultry industry, due to the benefits it provides to a very critical problem in terms of both animal and human health, such as the reduction of antibiotic use, and the role it plays in preventing the most important poultry diseases. I would also like to thank the Biokey team, who are working with faith in this project, very much.
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