Prioritizing Animal Care: A key to Sustainable Animal Husbandry and Antibiotic Resistance Control

Animal husbandry constitutes a very vital stake in the production proteins human and animal care however adequate management practices remain the mainframe of the animal husbandry. Antibiotics have extensively utilized in the management of animals for healthy living and growth promotion which has led emergence of antibiotic resistance in bacteria. The emergence of this resistance is responsible for the difficult in disease treatment which adversely leads high mortality rate among the livestock. Human infections by antibiotic resistant organisms from animal sources is aftermath effect of the abuse of antibiotics in the rearing of animal. Evidence of unmetabolised antibiotics in the animal products is also certain which leads to antibiotic residue in animal meat, egg or milk. The desire to control antibiotic use especially as growth promoter and/or prophylaxis, un-prescribed as well as inadequate doses in animal husbandry is expected to be the focus of government agencies and veterinarians. Keywords: Un-metabolised, Prophylaxis, Mortality, Veterinarians, Government agencies