Source: Rita Jane Gabbett, MEATINGPLACE, 11/13/15

USPOULTRY and the USPOULTRY Foundation announced the Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster, Ohio, has completed funded research on the role of vitamin D in fighting coccidiosis in turkeys.

Dr. Ramesh Selvaraj and his colleagues found that supplementing turkey feed with increased levels of a form of vitamin D, 25-OH cholecalciferol, improved body weight gain and decreased the fecal shedding of coccidial oocysts following coccidia challenge.

This novel approach to controlling coccidiosis may prove useful for production programs that rely less on the use of anticoccidial compounds.

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