My wife worked for Murphy Hogs and toured one of the barns that was raised antibiotic free. She said it was the worst looking group of pigs she ever saw.
Here's what the American Chicken Council says:
�Raised without Antibiotics� on a package of chicken indicates that the flock was raised without the use of products classified as antibiotics for animal health maintenance, disease prevention or treatment of disease. Animal health products not classified as antibiotics (such as some coccidiostats, which control protozoal parasites) may still be used. �Antibiotic free� is not allowed to be used on a label but may be found in marketing materials not regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. It means the same thing as �Raised without Antibiotics.� All chicken is �antibiotic-free� in the sense that no antibiotic residues are present in the meat due to the withdrawal periods and other precautions required by the government and observed by the chicken companies.
So they are still feeding a coccidiostat, with cocci being one of the main diseases they solve that problem. The other thing they can do is practice judicious bio-security, start with a clean barn, house clean chicks, keep them clean.
I have to shower into my barn 3 times a day, everything I need is already in the barn and sanitized between flocks. If it can't be sanitized it is thrown away, any paper work is removed, even the toilet paper is trashed. After the flock leaves they have a crew come in and power-wash, then disinfect, then disinfect, then I take swabs and send those to a lab and they fumigate with formaldehyde, more swabs and one more round of disinfection. Weekly swabs until the barn is empty again. I'm not raising broilers though.
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