THE GOOD PROBIOTICS FOR YOUR BIRDS • By: Gaétan Simard T.P. , Laval University Quebec

Supplementing your birds' diet with probiotics becomes more and more attractive for bird owners.

THE BENEFICIAL HEALTH REASONS ARE VARIOUS:

• Increases immune system strength.
• • Assures optimum guts microflora (essential for good digestion).
• • Helps parent birds to inoculate there young when
• they are still in the nest.
• • Restore guts microflora after antibiotic treatment.
• • Potentially increases lifespan.

The use of 'friendly' bacteria to prevent infectious diseases is relatively new. It is part of the new biotechnologies called nutraceutics. The first man who discovered the benefits of the bacteria therapy was a Russian microbiologist and zoologist named Elie Metchnikoff from 1845-1916, the father of modern immunology.

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