Confessions of the Sheep/Beef Cattle/Pig Addicts
- Thread starter Anymulewilldo
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Tbf there has been some resistance to some antibiotics on pig and I think poultry farms but its to be expected when they feed them to them all every day all the time. That's why they stopped it and rightly so.
Farmer 83563
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Yes, were making progress but any farmer that jabs all their lambs with mycotil before they go off on winter keep isnt helping any of us sadly - thats all I was trying to say!UK antibiotics use in food production - in other words FARMING is down 55% since 2014.
The industry has got it's act together - it's the human population useage of antibiotics which is out of control
Food production antibiotic sales drop to record low
The 2021 UK Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance report shows the volume of antibiotics sold for use in food-producing animals has droppedwww.vettimes.co.uk
The bbc are doing that without hormones…
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- Cheshire
I wouldn’t even blame the doctors to a point. The general public is conditioned to believe that antibiotics cure absolutely everything. The doctors prescribe drugs which the public then don’t take correctly which doesn’t kill the Bacteria, just weakens it then away we go with drug resistant bacteria. The cleanliness of hospitals now is say is lacking to what it used to be. To much money being welched by managers and not enough spent on ground floor basic policy.
That being said the NHS is a wonderful thing. I would run it different to how it is, but I’ve had several ops in my relatively short life so far, without 1 of which I defo wouldn’t be here now. The NHS has delivered me 2 healthy boys, both difficult births. It’s a great principle, just needs taking to pieces and starting again. Stopping people suing them for every little thing that’s gone wrong would be a good start.
livestock 1
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Comes to something when the BMA withdraw certain antibiotics for farm use because they have issues with their own treatment procedures
About 15 years ago I had an computer calf feeder,we couldn’t get on with it at all,chap sent a Volac rep to look at it and when I told him about the problems he said,I’d sort that with antibiotic in the milk replacer,it wasn’t something I wanted to do,good job they stopped it.
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Put money on there being no farms - legally - jagging lambs with a blanket of Mycotil.
The vet only administration cost is enough to stop it. And if any vets are willing to do it without real justified reasons - such as in the face of a disease epidemic - they would be risking their career and the practice they work for or own
livestock 1
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It’s still comes in imported meat
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- Cheshire
It’s not something we ever did but how many people used to jab the entire lambing flock with oxytet 2 weeks before lambing? I don’t know if many doing it as routine now? Last year I had something trying to flare up in the lambing hoggs, quick application of oxytet sorted it straight away. But that’s a problem-solution treatment, only thing that would have done the job. Don’t intend using it every year!
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- Cheshire
Must be 10 years since the vet used micotil here? Revived a calf that was all but dead from pneumonia. One jab cost us £36. And we still shot the calf a month later. It’s gone on our list of “just ring Beesons instead” antibiotics
- Location
- Cheshire
And what’s to say where it comes from that the animal wasn’t jabbed a fortnight before slaughter!
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- Cheshire
Very high brow this evening ladies and gents. I’m impressed!
what have you done with Smithy? I know Gecko, Niths and Fencer are here, it must be smithy that’s the bad influence
what have you done with Smithy? I know Gecko, Niths and Fencer are here, it must be smithy that’s the bad influence
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Jabbed one with micotil or equivalent last Monday,only because vet was here,local lad jabbed himself,on purpose.
That's why it went vet only... because a vet tried to do themselves in with it.
But you either need to know where/how to inject yourself (heart, artery etc) or you'd need to use a whole bottle. Because it is no more dangerous a substance to inject yourself with as Engemycin/Alamycin.
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- Cheshire
Can’t imagine that people get themselves in such a bad place as to do it. But we’ve had friends or friends of friends do something silly. hanging, shotgun, gassed. None of them were cases where you’d say “I can see why he did it”Jabbed one with micotil or equivalent last Monday,only because vet was here,local lad jabbed himself,on purpose.
All left families of differing ages behind. 
- Location
- Cheshire
That engemycin spray is good shite for healing nasty cuts up
I have got into trouble for self medication of an ailment before now. But when you ring your local NHS doctor and the receptionist tells you (after a 15 minute wait) that the doctor can see you a week on Friday at 13:50, and no matter how much you point out that I only ring you if I think it’s bleedy serious you just have to get on. And who’s got 8 hours to waste sat in A&E waiting to be seen?! Good scrub and a spray of engemycin does the trick. Although don’t use cattle ringworm paste on yourself. I’ve an acid burn on my neck that will be there forever after that little episode
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Can’t imagine that people get themselves in such a bad place as to do it. But we’ve had friends or friends of friends do something silly. hanging, shotgun, gassed. None of them were cases where you’d say “I can see why he did it”
Sadly, you never know what's going.on in someone's head.
Usually those who seem happy and make others smile the most, are the most unhappy themselves behind closed doors
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- N.Lincs
