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As a cattlemen by trade and newbie chicken keeper by hobby, I believe ya'll are missing a big part of the changes. Namely, the antibiotics that are now RX only are the water soluble varieties and varieties considered "medically important" to humans that are fed in animal feed. In other words, the ones meant to be dissolved in water, or fed to animals in their feed that are also used in humans. At this time, injectables that were over the counter are still available over the counter. I believe all the drugs in the picture above are injectable.
If you have an established relationship with an ag vet getting the drugs you need, even without a visit to their office, shouldn't be an issue. As to the never used them crowd, there are different ways of doing anything and the beauty of running your own birds is you can handle them as you see fit.
Things like medicate feed, medicated milk replacer for cattle, etc. should be gone now. If you want to get medicated feed made at a mill, you would have to have a VFD from a vet. If you want to buy water soluble antibiotics you need a RX, which pretty much means the only people that will carry them anymore are vets because feed stores aren't set up to verify prescriptions.
But if you could buy it over the counter injectable before, you still can.
Please don't include me with the "y'all's", lol, because I think I have a very clear understanding of what was OTC and what now requires a prescription or VFD, and like you said, it's not injectables, it's *almost* all antibiotics that are added to feed, and *almost* all antibiotics that can be mixed in water. I think post #33 says all this, and it also lists what food/water soluble drugs can still purchased OTC (bacitracin is one).
FWIW, I took the picture of the injectables at TSC to show people that they can still get the usual injectables. Not shown is injectable penicillin, that was in their fridge.
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