Probiotics: The Advantage in Livestock

Abstract

Application of probiotic into the livestock enchances in the growth of animals and reduces the use of medicine in animal production. Various types of probiotics are accepted for their efficiency improvement and the disease prevention of the animals. Mechanism of probiotic could reduce the spread of diseases in intestine in both non-ruminant and ruminant. Probiotics are bacteria, fungus and yeast which are different in capabilities. Probiotics affects the performance and health of animals. Probiotics also keep the natural balance of microorganisms, control the pathogenic bacteria in animals’ intestines, increase the effectiveness in food digestion, absorption, and decrease the use of antibiotics. Probiotic microorganism could control caused disease in animal’s intestine, increase in efficiency of digesting and absorbing food, increase in production and decrease in antibiotics use. At present, the current trends indicate that developing countries pay great attention and importance to animal production, especially the safety and the awareness of the effectiveness of probiotics. Consequently, academic institutes should have the roles to concern on research about the effectiveness of probiotics and also control the usage of probiotics to the full potentials as well as strengthen and commercially utilize it. Those trends aforementioned will help promote academic institutes to produce probiotics, set the rules and regulations about making use of probiotics so as to prevent people from health effects which might occur from animal produce consumption and also analyze the risks from using probiotics with livestock.