Iron County Record | 1955-03-10 | Page 14 | Utah Poultry Industry Savings Passed to Customers

Utah Poultry Industry Savings Passed to Customers Drug developments in recent years have made it possible for Utah poultrymen, an important segment of the state's economy, to reduce disease losses from coccldiosis alone by an estimated estimat-ed $500,000 annually. And the biggest share of this substantial saving has been passed pas-sed along to the consumers. An industry spokesman, Dr. Sterling Brackett, said today that a new development in the anticoccidial anti-coccidial field probably will see more poultry feeds than ever before containing drugs to over come the costly parasitic disease. Dr. Brackett, director of animal industry application for the Fine Chemical.-? Division of American Cyanamid Co., noted that if coc-cidiosls coc-cidiosls existed now in the United Unit-ed States to the same extent it did 20 years ago, an additional $112,000,000 would be tacked on the nation's poultry bill each year. He said losses from the disease have decreased nearly 80 per cent since the mid 1930's. To poultrymen, the loss from coccidiosis is measured in the value of birds killed by severe outbreaks of the disease; in stunted birds that grow slowly; in fewer good pullets for the laying house, and in extra feed used because of lowered feed conversion. The value of an effective anticoccidial anti-coccidial drug is that is reduces the number of parasites to the point where they have no disease dis-ease effect on the birds. The comparatively few coccidia which remain induce a mild innocula-tion innocula-tion which helps provide the flock with immunity against outbreaks out-breaks of the disease.