While Aureomycin®
(chlortetracycline) is primarily seen as an excellent in-feed antibiotic for swine respiratory disease, studies show it can also provide an excellent return on investment in terms of improved weight gain and feed efficiency.

To maximize production and keep meat prices competitive for consumers, producers routinely seek ways to improve the amount of weight pigs gain produced from each pound of feed.  The faster animals get to market weight, the lower their cost of production and the lower price consumers pay at the supermarket. 

In a perfect world, meeting this challenge would mean providing optimum nutrition and taking measures to ensure good intestinal health — and those inputs are important. 

But invariably, pigs succumb to respiratory and enteric infections, which can hamper feed intake and greatly reduce weight gain.  Antibiotics are often needed — not only to ensure the good health and welfare of the animal, but also to keep animals growing efficiently.

The expansive line of Alpharma in-feed products that can help increase the rate of weight gain and improve feed efficiency of pigs is listed at the right.