U.S. may restrict antibiotics

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I know I will get a lot of flack for this; however, these are my thoughts on the subject.

I have never understood the use of medicated feed for perfectly healthy newly hatched chicks. In this world, it is survival of the fittest.

Evolution has no use for antibiotics especially in the young. The system is not designed to accommodate it because the system uses safe guards like a natural built up immunity. Using antibiotic from birth never gives that system a chance to kick in.

The only reasons antibiotics are used are to give an advantage to those who use them and it does not improve the breed one bit. With continuous use….we are weakening those natural safeguards.

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I agree!

I learned the hard way with a diseased flock--you can treat with antibiotics to mask the symptoms of an illness, but it doesn't make the bird healthy. Egg production goes down and with many chicken illnesses they still shed the virus to infect other birds and perpetuate the cycle. It's better to raise healthy birds from strong stock.

When my new batches of chicks get cocci, I do treat them with Corid. (Which isn't an antibiotic.) But I don't buy medicated feed.

Antibiotics in the factory farm meat industry are just there to compensate for horrible living conditions that promote disease and weaken animals. Maybe if they do away with antibiotics in farm animals then we will be forced to look at the meat industry and improve some things!

The article doesn't specify, unless I missed it, how it will effect antibiotics on a small scale for local small farms. When my hen had pneumonia recently I would have given her antibiotics for that, if I had known in time. I don't think that's the same as over medicating healthy animals or medicating to cover up a contagious disease, you know? I think it's fine to treat an illness (not including ones that leave birds as carriers for life!!!) as long as that animal is out of the food supply for the proper amount of time.
 
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The "medication" in chick starter is not an Antibiotic it's a low dose Coccidiostat. It is designed to allow exposure w/o infection thereby building immunity. Coccidia are everywhere in the environment & chicks raised in brooders are susceptible to infection once removed from the brooder. Once infected Coccidiosis is always fatal if untreated.
While I agree that something needs to be done about the irresponsible use of Antibiotics it's silly to advocate avoiding appropriately used medications.
 
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It still puts a stress on a system that has evolved for over a millions of years. If life was so fragile, nothing would have survived and none of us would be here today.
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Where does the threat come from? Start at the beginning…..we are receiving livestock from dirty sources. Start there and do not order from them again.
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From what I got out of it it says you won't be able to buy antibiotics in feed stores such as terramycin (which I used to treat a duck who was wheezing). You must have your birds under a vets care. If I had taken my duck to an avian vet who is the only vet who would treat, it would have cost $150 just to walk in the door. Of course I only treated the only one who showed any symptoms. I don't believe in giving antibiotics without reason. They are used way too much, but there are times when necessary. Some people don't have the luxury of being near or being able to afford an avian vet.
 
The government should take their own advice on antibiotics and use that for the economy. And this is a measure to hurt US not the large industry farms. It will take our options away to take care of our birds, and make our own choices. I am sorry but this POTUS has strong ties to ADM and other food industries that DO NOT want us raising our own food. Large chicken, pork, and beef industries have vets on staff, this current bill will not affect them but is intended to restrict our access to the tools we need to be self sufficient.

Their is also legislation on the table I understand that will require us to register as small farms to raise our own food. We will be charged a $50 annual fee to grow and raise food. Also we will be open to federal inspection without notice or cause and subject to food supply confiscation without just cause. A friend of mine from the former USSR says we are on the wrong path and being corralled like livestock.
 
They already have a law that the vet cannot dispense meds without a patient/doctor relationship.

That really sucked when one of my geese had torn his toenail off and got an infection in his toe. I wasn't about to pay $45 for an exotic office visit for him to tell me: "Yes, your goose has an infection in his toe. Here are some antibiotics."
 

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