CALF News Aug./Sept 2018

9 CALF News • August | September 2018 • www.calfnews.net Continued on page 11  Feeding the New Frontier Mark kirkpatrick, president stoker-kirkpatrick ranches  High Protein  High Energy  All Natural diaMond nutrition (806) 716-6222 info@cattlecubes.com minimum Guaranteed analysis Crude Protein 28.0% Crude Fat 9.5% Crude Fiber 10.0% Phosphorus 0.5% “We started using Diamond Energy Cubes because not only could we keep the protein content high, but we were getting the additional benefit of the fat content. We probably don’t have to feed as much because of the higher protein and fat level so we’ve been very satisfied.” www.cattlecubes.com need for forward thinking about other solutions to health problems in livestock. Dr. Apley believes we need to move toward stewardship with systematic thinking. When treating an animal, the steps need to be: 1) responsibility for diagnosis; 2) consider other alternatives; 3) select the antibiotic, assuming the use is safe and effective; and 4) ask is it still necessary? “The veterinarian should be in con- trol,“Apley said.“OTC [over the coun- ter] is out!”With the limited new tools available, Apley made it clear that we need to police ourselves and be sure we are making the best decisions to pro- tect our animals and our future as well as looking for alternative solutions to animal health problems. In spite of the progression from animal husbandry to animal science at universities, husbandry must become the order of the day. Dawn N. Sievert works at the Center for Disease Control to combat antimicrobial resistance in humans. Megan Nichols at the Center for Disease Control works on multistate Salmonella and E. coli outbreaks from exposure to animals and pet products. Word from the CDC Two representatives from the Center for Disease Control represented human and animal health concerns. Dawn M. Sievert, Ph.D., M.S., serves as CDC associate director of antimicrobial resistance. Her job is to investigate focal points in human resistance outbreaks, looking for where, how and what the solutions are for the outbreak. Dis- cussing the possibility of infections coming from being in health care, one must consider: if changes are to be recommended, does the fix cause other problems? According to Sievert, the over-prescription rate on drugs runs 30 percent. That means 47 million prescrip- tions are unnecessary. Megan Nichols, DVM, MPH, DACVPM, serves as the enteric zoono- ses activity lead at the CDC where she works on multistate outbreaks of Salmo- nella and E. coli resulting from exposure