Supplementing poultry diets with glutamine could help reduce the severity of necrotic enteritis (NE), according to researchers.
The bacterial disease can be devastating for commercial poultry producers and is a particular risk in no-antibiotic-ever systems, as options for control are more limited.
Jared Oxford, graduate research assistant at the University of Georgia, said he conducted trials with poultry after spotting a gap in the literature.
