ABSTRACT
A survey on the Abuse of Antibiotics
in Poultry Production was carried out in Umuahia Ikwuano Local Government in
Abia State. The study was focused on the reasons why farmers abuse antibiotics,
to determine the most effective and frequently used antibiotics in poultry
production, and also to examine the factors affecting the degree of abuse of
antibiotics. A structural questionnaire was use to collect data from 60 poultry
farmers selected randomly in the areas. Simple descriptive statistic and
regression analysis were used to analyses the data from the questionnaire. The
result of this study showed that antibiotics are highly abuse by poultry
farmers. 86.67% of the farmers interviewed were males while 13.33% were
females. Antibiotics were administered by the owner of the farm/manager without
diagnosis and proper prescription by a qualified veterinarian. 23% of the
farmers interviewed admitted that they submitted samples for laboratory
diagnosis before embarking on any from of antibiotic therapy while 77% of the
farmers do not. Tetracycline were used by 92% of the farmers and are indicated
as the drug of choice in the management and prevention of most bacterial
infection. Erytbromycin was also used by 67% of farmer while penicillin and neomycin
were the least used by 10% of the farmers. The result also showed that sex ,
age , education, experience, drug availability and mortality affect the degree
of use of antibiotics. It is expected that the finding of this work will help
in developing new strategies for prudent use of antibiotics by poultry farmers
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