Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

I apologize if this is something that has already been covered to death - I couldn't come up with anything by searching.

A lot of the treatments I'm seeing for chooks don't seem to be available in Australia (gentian violet, blu kote, antibiotic creams) and I'm wondering what everyone in Oz uses in place of the treatments more readily available in the US.  I'm trying to build up my chook first-aid box.  Ideas would be lovely.

No apology needed. A lot of antibiotics and drugs will be marketed under a different name in the states but the active ingredients are what you need to pay particular attention to. I swear by Terramycin antibiotic spray. We've used on horses , cows, goats and chickens. Another great wound care product is otiderm,
I've seen it heal massive wounds after surgery on our dog.
Let me find the link.

http://www.littlevalleypoultry.com/Terramycin Pinkeye spray

 

[tandykins]

No apology needed. A lot of antibiotics and drugs will be marketed under a different name in the states but the active ingredients are what you need to pay particular attention to. I swear by Terramycin antibiotic spray. We've used on horses , cows, goats and chickens. Another great wound care product is otiderm,
I've seen it heal massive wounds after surgery on our dog.
Let me find the link.

http://www.littlevalleypoultry.com/Terramycin Pinkeye spray

Excellent - I'll make a list to build up my kit. Thanks so much!

 

[satay]

Probiotics I can get easily but I called my local feed stores and vet yesterday and none of them had anything like blu-kote and I couldn't get any kind of antibiotics without making an appointment and going into the vet's office.  I'll continue to have a look online - I must be missing something. 

You can get antibiotics from Brookfield poultry online. I wouldn't bother stocking up on them unless you have an ill bird. You can order from them and other places too if you need them and they arrive in a few days.

 

[Ashburnham]

Excellent - I'll make a list to build up my kit. Thanks so much!

The Terramycin spray is great (I even use it on myself.) Available from most produce stores. You can also buy several antibiotics on line from Bellsouth.
I make my own antibiotic creme by mixing ab powder with handcream or similar.

xxxx M

 

[vehve]

So antibiotics aren't regulated in Australia? Here you need a prescription to get them, which is pretty good in my opinion. In some parts of the country the recommended treatments aren't applicable anymore, you need broad spectrum antibiotics instead. In my opinion, antibiotics are used a bit too loosely, we might be in big trouble soon as resistant strains of bacteria are getting more and more common.

 

[Findtex]

So antibiotics aren't regulated in Australia? Here you need a prescription to get them, which is pretty good in my opinion. In some parts of the country the recommended treatments aren't applicable anymore, you need broad spectrum antibiotics instead. In my opinion, antibiotics are used a bit too loosely, we might be in big trouble soon as resistant strains of bacteria are getting more and more common.

Any fish anti fungi solution is a substitute that anyone can use.: I do agree with you about the over use of antibiotic, we all need to take care in this area, sometimes it is better to C if nature can take its course.

 

[Fancychooklady]

So antibiotics aren't regulated in Australia? Here you need a prescription to get them, which is pretty good in my opinion. In some parts of the country the recommended treatments aren't applicable anymore, you need broad spectrum antibiotics instead. In my opinion, antibiotics are used a bit too loosely, we might be in big trouble soon as resistant strains of bacteria are getting more and more common.

For human consumption they are tightly regulated and many pet stores are not licensed to sell them. Baytril is now banned in the US because of the residual affect it has on humans that eat the eggs and meat of treated birds. I know too well the effects of resistance. I am VRE , which essentially means that the last 2 times I had pneumonia and was admitted to hospital, the entire range of vancomycin antibiotics is useless. The up side is I always get a private room and my own cleaner.
My point is , I've never been one to use antibiotics but one never knows what has been added to the food chain. But believe me when you are in intensive care and you look up and see that little yellow bottle ' piggy backing ' your drip you can only prey that it will work.

 

[Findtex]

For human consumption they are tightly regulated and many pet stores are not licensed to sell them. Baytril is now banned in the US because of the residual affect it has on humans that eat the eggs and meat of treated birds. I know too well the effects of resistance. I am VRE , which essentially means that the last 2 times I had pneumonia and was admitted to hospital, the entire range of vancomycin antibiotics is useless. The up side is I always get a private room and my own cleaner.
My point is , I've never been one to use antibiotics but one never knows what has been added to the food chain. But believe me when you are in intensive care and you look up and see that little yellow bottle ' piggy backing ' your drip you can only prey that it will work.

Garlic, Apple cider vinegar and Ginger are always the best way to prevent the use of antibiotics, to me. When this fails Betadine is good, sea, or salt water are also good.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Garlic, Apple cider vinegar and Ginger are always the best way to prevent the use of antibiotics, to me. When this fails Betadine is good, sea, or salt water are also good.

I have no problem with natural therapies, in fact I have had occasion to use most of the ones you have listed. My first aid box also includes injectable vit C and B12, sulphur , copper sulphate and manukau honey but none of these products will treat a serious blood born infection. Modern medicine has come ahead in leaps and bounds and with out antibiotics there would still be a lot of unnecessary deaths in the world.

 

[rexy]

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