What do you keep in your dual purpose chicken First-Aid kit?

Apr 20, 2025
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Just curious what everyone else keeps in their chicken first-aid kit. I'm new to my personal chickens, and most of the experience I have is with meat chickens, so I didn't have to really deal with the same issues. I'm keeping egg chickens (that I'll turn into stock/stew when they start to get to older age)... So I'm looking for things that will help prevent the use of antibiotics and whatnot, while still giving good care. I live pretty far out from town, and sometimes getting to specific supplies can take awhile (or get lost) in the mail, so hoping to have what I can on hand.

Right now, I have some complex vitamin B, vitamin E, Calcium Citrate, vitamin D3, and fish oil. I would rather have the correct vitamins on hand just in case, so any extra suggestions would be helpful. I also have some epson salt just in case I need to soak something, and some sterlized bandage wrap, and some mineral oil.

I'm mostly just curious if there is any antibiotic spray/ointment people use/like that is gentle? Do any of you recommend to keep any dewormer and or tick/lice etc preventatives? I'm using sand that I can easily dump and get new (from a river nearby) and it's a pretty dry climate, so I'm hoping to not have issues, but not sure if I should still just assume they will eventually be there. [Our vets don't even recommend flea and tick mediations unless the dog/cat goes into town].
 
I would highly suggest stocking up on dewormer (egg withdrawal no matter what) and either elector psp (no egg withdrawal but expensive) or permethrin (longer egg withdrawal but cheaper). Egg withdrawal is meaning a time where humans should not consume their eggs. Whist it is chemicals, there is almost no way to easily get rid of internal and external parasites without the use of chemicals.
It’s also pretty good to stock up on materials to treat bumblefoot as bumblefoot is quite annoyingly prevalent no matter how clean you keep things. It just happens.
The vitamins you have sound good to me. You could also get some nutri-drench as it has a mixture of vitamins to help perk up a droopy and sad looking chicken.
 
I keep, always ready:
-Corid
-sulfa
-a pigeon dewormer (can't remember the name)
-vitamin b complex syrup for human babies
- calcium + d3 tablets
- amoxicillin leftover from my dentist stuff
- Epsom salt
- I have a clorexidin disinfectant that I purchased by mistake ages ago but it apparently is good for chickens so I keep it for them.
- viks vaporub as deterrent for comb peckers.
 

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