Eggscaping
Enjoying Life!
We have been reading BYC for almost a year. We are about to build our coop and run for next spring's first ever chickens, and thank all the people here for the knowledge we will have when we build the coop and run, get chicks, and raise them for eggs and meat.Been preaching against this for 40 years. Only time I've used them in the last few decades was for a serious tooth abscess.
Yup, without even knowing what the illness is...SMH.
Wonder how long it will be before the aquatic(fish) AB's are restricted?
One of the decisions we have made in advance is: if a chicken is sick it gets culled and replaced. We will try to give the best conditions possible but do not intend to treat any birds with antibiotics. All you have to do is read about the "super-bugs" showing up in hospitals that are nearly or completely resistant to antibiotics. The more that bacteria are exposed, the more they mutate, because the ones that live pass on their resistance to the next generations. No. If it's something easily treatable like egg-bound or worms, that's one thing, but there will be no antibiotic use.
Remember when 'anti-bacterial' hand soaps were all over...and then researchers began finding out that the anti-bacterial agent was causing all kinds of trouble by killing off the 'good' bacteria that people need on their skin...and also that the 'bad' bacteria were starting to become resistant because of over-exposure? So now the so-called germ-killing hand soaps use alcohol only, which doesn't cause a resistance to form.
No, folks...just say no to antibiotics unless it's a life or death situation...for YOU. Not your chickens.