New antibiotic alternative on Russian poultry farms

By 2025, Russian poultry farms could stop the use of feed antibiotics by including betulin in feed rations. The phytobiotic, which is derived from the bark of birch trees, is widely known for giving the tree its white colour, which appears to protect the tree from mid-winter overheating by the sun. A group of scientists from the Ural branch of the Russian Academy of Science ran an experiment with the Ross-308 crossbreed at a broiler farm in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. The results of the study