Aviagen has released a Gut Health Toolkit, now available to customers worldwide. This is the fourth instalment in Aviagen’s Focus Series, a growing library designed to help poultry producers.
Gut health is the cornerstone of the overall health, welfare, and productivity of broiler flocks. The new Toolkit provides science-based strategies for maintaining strong gut function throughout the chicken’s life cycle. It underscores how good management of environmental factors, such as ventilation, litter moisture, water quality, nutrition and stress, can significantly impact gut integrity and resilience.
The Toolkit is intended for everyone involved in broiler production, from farm managers and hatchery staff to biosecurity teams, veterinarians, feed suppliers and processing support teams. It includes an educational poster about gut health on the farm, an interactive guide which takes the form of step-by-step advice, an expert presentation delivered by Dr Richard Bailey, Aviagen’s head of applied physiology, and a briefing covering gut health products.
“Maintaining gut health is critical,” said Vanessa Kretzschmar-McCluskey, Aviagen’s global head of technical transfer. “It promotes uniform growth, efficient feed conversion, and stronger disease resistance.”
The gut health toolkit is available on the Aviagen website.