CocciForum Brazil 2007 challenged vets, nutritionists and producers to find new management strategies for enteric disease.

More than 140 poultry veterinarians, nutritionists and production managers from four continents flocked to Florianopolis, Brazil, in September for CocciForum Brazil 2007, an informative symposium on intestinal health topics.

Collectively, attendees managed 3 billion broilers, 20 million breeders and 16 million layers. The event, organized by Schering-Plough Animal Health, was held in conjunction with the Latin American Poultry Congress.

One key talk was delivered by Dr. Robert Teeter, a poultry nutritionist and researcher at Oklahoma State University, who noted that broilers experience most of their growth after 27 days.

"We've found that if the bird is hit with a coccidiosis challenge before that 27- day mark, it has time to make up for performance it's lost," he said. But, he added, coccidia challenges that occur from 27 days onward don't give birds enough time to recover lost growth. (See page 7 of this edition for more on this presentation.)

Other topics on the 2-day agenda: New strategies for controlling coccidiosis, enteritis and salmonella; optimizing performance and production costs in finisher feeds; managing growth-promoting antibiotics for best returns; and practical steps for revitalizing resistance-prone drugs for coccidiosis and other enteric diseases.

An in-depth report on the CocciForum Brazil 2007 appears in the current Latin American (Spanish) edition of Intestinal Health, which is available from Schering-Plough Animal Health representatives or at www.thepoultrysite.com/intestinalhealth. More details from the Brazil meeting will also be reported in future English editions.

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