FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The poultry industry loses up to $6 billion annually due to necrotic enteritis, a preventable intestinal disease in poultry, including broiler chickens.
An Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station poultry science researcher is evaluating a new possible solution using a novel vaccine combined with a bile acid regimen.
Xiaolun (Jack) Sun, a researcher and associate professor for the experiment station, the research arm of the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture, was awarded a four-year, $650,000 grant by the USDA’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to advance the research.
Sun is developing a vaccine and. . .