Supplies for "chicken emergency" box?

[MoSo]

After buying Damerow's book, I've been collecting items for my "chicken emergency" box. So far I have some basic supplies like scissors and bandages and tape, but I've added blue kote and a poultry-approved dust for lice and mites. What other kinds of things would you add to the box?

(Yes, I have these boxes around the house that are people-based and dog-based as well.)

 

[NYREDS]

Mine is much simpler than most. It consists of a Coccidiostat, Louse Powder & a Hatchet. These items take care of all my poultry health needs.

 

[bigstack]

I have scissors, tape, bandages, popcicle sticks, blue kote, poli-visol no iron, duct tape, large shears for the final act!, neosporin no painkiller, some electrolyte vitamin gel, I try to keep a fresh stash of plain yogurt in the fridge, and the lap top loaded to BYC 24-7, 365.....

Good luck and God Bless!

 

[A.T. Hagan]

Historically my 'poultry first aid kit' has been very similar to NYREDS, but now I have young daughters who are developing an interest in chickens (at my encouragement) so things have become more complicated.

I still don't have a big kit though. A bottle of povidone/iodone, a tube of antibiotic goo, a can of Blue-Kote, and a jar of pine tar. Some of that bandage cling wrap that sticks to itself. Paper toweling as needed.

This has been used for open wounds, preventing feather picking (the pine tar is great), and one case of bumblefoot.

.....Alan.