Show Off Your American Gamefowl and Chat Thread!!!

[roosterhavoc]

What antibiotics are being laced into feeds anyway? Coccidiostats are all I am aware of for poultry.

Yeah it's mainly swine, goat and cattle feed.

 

[roosterhavoc]

A lot of those water soluble meds are used off label for poultry though.
Sulfa drugs, tetracycline, penicillin,erythromycin and all the similar drugs that are marketed under different names. All the drugs that technically affect antibiotic resistance in humans when over used in animals for food.

 

[roosterhavoc]

A lot of stuff for show feed :/ it crazy tbh since we gotta watch what the dairy goats eat while in milk.

I take it you have goats. I suppose now you will have to have a vet oversee any antibiotic use in them after the new year? I understand why they are doing it but it will still hurt the small timer with less head of cattle, goats, sheep etc.. can't be cheap to have a vet come out to the farm. Especially when most people are fully capable of doing things properly.

 

[sdm111]

I think that's a good thing keeps people from just dosing up whatever to whatever for whatever from reading what someone wrote here or there that they heard from someone else that's what to do with no professionals involved whatsoever. Having all these antibiotics being given on a whim is messing us up

 

[B123]

Below is a link that explains the new regulations from the FDA. It will affect all animal industries. In short it is meant to reduce prophylactic use of antimicrobials in animal feeds used broadly as basically growth or performance enhancers. They will still be available when medically justified.

http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/ucm449019.htm

 

[JShubin]

Good 5 minute stand off

No battle just stare down.

 

[centrarchid]

Good 5 minute stand off

No battle just stare down.

No aggression there. Appears to be mutual imprinting,

 

[sdm111]

For some that is aggression. I mean they are looking at each other

 

[blackblue]

one of my bumblefoot cocks, love these guys look can't wait for them to finish molting

 

[centrarchid]

Orientation of body axis and feathers not consistent with aggression I see. Aggression very easy to read. Female on right might be a little more confident.

Vocalizations would be be the final word.