Blood panels tell only part of the story. In a trial that ran 1,200 broilers to day 35, a herbal anticoccidial shifted ALT, magnesium, urea and four white cell types, while nearly every other reading simply tracked how old the birds were. Immune cell counts carried most of the real signal. Why the herbal anticoccidial question matters now Coccidiosis starts with Eimeria protozoa that damage the gut lining, so digestion goes off and birds stop pulling nutrients out of feed. The bill is not small: one estimate for 2016 landed near 10.4 billion GBP worldwide, and other authors work with figures close to 3 billion USD a year. Chemical coccidiostats…