It is no argument that animal farming is about the profitability. Minimizing cost while maximizing profit: the same has led many farmers in the search and use of antibiotics and growth promoters that will help speed up the production, muscling and sustainability of the stocks health. But then, there are limitations and a number side effects to the use of synthetic chemicals which are both common and harmful.
In this expository article, Organic-life Agriculture is suggesting three plant matter that can both serve as an alternative to antibiotics and growth promoters.
1. GARLIC
Garlic is effective against a number of gram-negative, gram-positive, and acid-fast bacteria, including Staphylococcus, Salmonella, Vibrio, Mycobacteria, and Proteus species. It has been shown that the aqueous extract of garlic can be used alongside conventional antibiotics to fight agents of nosocomial infections that are so prevalent in husbandry. Allicin which is a vital component of garlic, its pure form, exhibits antibacterial activity against multidrug-resistant enterotoxicogenic strains of E. coli.
2. TUMERIC
Turmeric is a bright yellow-orange spice commonly used in curries and sauces. It comes from the turmeric root. The spice has been used for its medicinal, antioxidant, and anti-inflammatory properties for thousands of years.
How to Feed Turmeric to your Animals.
Can even start with 1/8 teaspoon (or just a dot) mixed in with some strong smelling food such as sardines. Some resort to watering a dose down and syringing into the mouth. Or you can try wiping a dose on the paw (cats).
RUMINANTS SMALL/LARGE SIZE
Start 1/4 tsp – 1 tsp of turmeric powder and 1/8 tsp of freshly ground black peppercorns once a day.
RUMINANTS (Goats, Sheep, Cows etc.)
Ruminants include goats, sheep, cattle, camels, deer, alpacas etc.
Because of their many stomachs and ability to gain benefit from food by digesting more than once, it is wise to start in very smsmall incremental doses.
One feed a day is sufficient for ruminants, about a teaspoon of turmeric powder
Mix with regular feed and dampen to adhere. These animals do NOT need much oil because organisms in the rumen make their own short-chain fatty acids to absorb curcumin and ruminants use turmeric very efficiently.
Ginger is also good to feed ruminants and while small quantities of ginger are effective I have seen a kg of ginger rhizomes fed daily.
POULTRY
Similarly for birds and small animal
1 teaspoon = 5 mls
1 dessertspoon = 10 mls
1 tablespoon = 20 mls (4 teaspoons) Australia
1 tablespoon = 15 mls (3 teaspoons)
3. COSTUS AFER
Spiral ginger is a perennial, rhizomatous herb growing up to 4 metres tall.
The plant is widely used in traditional medicine in Africa, being mainly harvested from the wild, although it is cultivated in a few areas.This has led to reducing numbers in the wild, especially in Ethiopia, and some cause of concern Spiral ginger is often planted in home gardens for medicinal purposes and is widely used for ceremonial and religious purposes It improves enzyme quality and promotes growth.
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