What is the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics?
A. Subtherapeutic usage entails the use of antibiotics for anything except for sickness. Doses are generally less than 50 milligrams per ton of animal weight. At this dosage, antibiotics can act as growth promoters that increase the animal’s output and value. This type of use has increased the daily weight gain of animals, has improved the feed-to-weight gain ratio, increased the voluntary feed intake of the animal, and decreased illness and morbidity.
Related Questions
- Are there any alternatives to using antibiotics in a subtherapeutic manner that will have the same effects on animals?
- Have there been any cases where animals have been raised without the use of subtherapeutic antibiotics?
- There seem to be a lot of benefits to the subtherapeutic use of antibiotics, how can it be so bad?
