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10-step guide on how to cut antibiotics use

Jacob Olando attends to his chickens at his home at Eshikhambi in Kakamega. To keep diseases at bay, always keep only birds of the same age and type in proximity at any given time. [Benjamin Sakwa, Standard]

November 18-24 was World Antibiotics Awareness Week, a period set aside to increase awareness on Global Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR). It seeks to encourage best practices among health workers and animal farmers in a bid to avoid further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.

So here are 10 best practices that poultry farmers can implement to grow their flocks with minimal need for antibiotics.

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