There is no doubt that convenient feed-grade antimicrobials are invaluable for enhancing herd health and productivity. But one aspect of these products often overlooked is their beneficial impact on animal welfare.

By optimizing the health of pigs at all stages of production, animals experience far less illness and, therefore, discomfort. Healthy pigs are lively, energetic, and interactive when free from the stresses caused by sickness.

In addition, the use of feed additive antimicrobials helps pigs use their feed more efficiently. This means less feed is needed and less manure is produced, thus reducing the environmental impact of swine production.

In short, feed additive antimicrobials represent excellent tools to help enhance animal welfare and protect the environment.

ChlorMax is a meal formulation of the powerful tetracycline-class drug chlortetracycline. Chemically similar to Aureomycin®, ChlorMax easily and effectively provides broad-spectrum antimicrobial protection that penetrates lung tissues to a much greater degree than other tetracycline-class drugs such as oxytetracycline.

ChlorMax offers broad-spectrum activity against a wide range of respiratory, enteric, and reproductive diseases. It is effective against swine respiratory disease associated with Pasteurella multocida, as well as costly enteric diseases like ileitis caused by Lawsonia intracellularis. ChlorMax is readily absorbed from the gut, delivering effective blood and lung tissue concentrations of drug to pigs exposed to disease threats. And ChlorMax is versatile, approved for combination use with BMD® (30 g/t) as well as tiamulin (35 g/t), for example

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