Prophylaxis (=treatment of healthy patients) antibiotics used to be a routine thing especially in younger animals more prone to infections etc. It was not stimu

Prophylaxis (=treatment of healthy patients) antibiotics used to be a routine thing especially in younger animals more prone to infections etc. It was not stimulating growth per se, but as a coincidental effect. It is not very common anymore, and has not been for over a decade now (in the EU, I'm not sure about overseas). But it's still possible for some specific sicknesses (one is sick, you can treat others that are not sick preventively) or productions (ie poultry and pigs iirc). (Growth is still systematically stimulated through hormones injections in cattle at least in the Canada/US, and this is completely banned in the EU, maybe there's some mix up there ?) > eventually banned it completely No, luckily it's not completely banned anywhere I know of, and I hardly see this happening tbh. Even in organic productions and such its a number of treatments (or quantity per animal) limit per year. It is not banned and breeding animals would be hardly sustainable if it were.