Microbes Benefit Livestock Health

Microbes Benefit Livestock Health

As regulations and restrictions surrounding antibiotics use in livestock continue to tighten, Bio S.I.Technology’s Jackpot Livestock Probiotics brings beneficial microbes to help maintain animals’ digestive systems instead of relying on sub-therapeutic use of antibiotics. CEO Wayne Tucker shares more about microbes’ benefits.
Tucker: “The way they help is they improve the activity of the gut. The microbes are what digest the food for animals, for human beings, for birds, for fish — for everything. Without microbes there would be no food conversation. My anatomy and physiology instructor use to tell us that without microbes there would be no life. I took that to heart. What we have seen is as our soil has been treated pretty harshly for the last 100 years, we are seeing a decrease of population of microbes in the soil. Where as our cattle an horses use to be able to go out to a field, eat some grass and pull up a mouthful of microbes that would sustain their gut. That is no longer the case — in most cases. So what our probiotics do is that we are actually putting the beneficial microbes back in the gut to help digest the food but more importantly they help the immune system in the animals at the same time. By getting the nutrients and trace elements like magnesium, manganese, zinc and so forth back into the animal’s bloodstream so that they can be healthier. There by reducing the number of antibiotics and other chemicals you have to use.”
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