What Should Everyone Have In There Chickens Medicine Cabinet

[Loddie Da]

What should everyone have in there flocks medicine cabinet?
Both first aid, treatments & supplements.
How much should you have & what dose it do?

 

[Sillystunt]

vetrx ...............................................respitory, helps with breathing kinda like vicks vapor rub(which is no good for chickens)
corrid................................................cocci
sumlet..............................................corynza & other illness
tylan 50 or tylan for water...............respitory, snotty nose, bubbly eyes(my favorite)
blue kote .........................................for cuts & bleeding
Vitamins...........................................week chickens or chicks just born
fish mox...........................................bumble foot
fowl pox vacc...................................florida is horrible with it!

that's what i have in my shed. Doses change depending on size & how many birds you need to do.

 

[Judy]

#2 and 3 are spelled Corid and Sulmet.

I don't keep anything. Do wish I'd had some Blukote once in a while, though. Hopefully you will not need the others.

If you put them on a worming program, you will want to research what to use and buy the drugs fresh. Same with antibiotics like Tylan; I've never bought any and have had chickens off and on for years.

Fowl pox is rampant here, too. For the most part, it makes black flat marks on their combs which go away after 3 weeks, then they are immune.

You probably keep a generic Neosporin for yourself. This can be used on the chickens for minor wounds. You might use a little on fowl pox lesions is they are extensive and start looking infected.

 

[joebryant]

CHICKENS - MEDICINE CABINET SUPPLIES

The following members posted the following information:

Riocotesei
Sulmet-- treament for Coccidiosis, Infectious Coryza, Acute Fowl Cholora, and Pullorum Disease. Can be found in feedstores. I had a hard time finding it, however.

Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain
Terramycin (General Antibiotic)
Tylan 50 or 200 (Antibiotic)
Amprolium (cocci)
Sulmet (cocci, & respiratory, I believe)
Q-tips
Gauze and tape (sports-tape works really well)
non pain-relief Neosporin or A&D Ointment
Peroxide
Iodine or Betadine (antiseptic)
Stiptic pencil or some other blood stauncher (I always seem to get one toe that bleeds when I trim... )
Wazine or other wormer
Tweezers, fine needle, fine cotton thread
BlueKote (antiseptic, anti-pick)

hinkjc
Poly-vi-sol infant vitamins
Vitamins and Electrolytes (Durvet)
Copper Sulfate
Nail clipper
Displosable gloves
Vet RX
Oxine

BJ
Pine tar - for feather picking/wounds. CHICKEN little 1 (comment about BJ’s pine tar) - It does work well.It healed a rather large wound (from being pecked),and she's starting to grow feathers again.

ChooksinIowa
Blue-Kote - it is an antibacterial/antifungal for wounds.
VetRx - it is for respiratory problems.
Rooster Booster brand anti-pick formula
Xenodine for wounds
Permethrin dust - lice and mite dust
Poly-vi-sol - vitamins for chicks who may not be doing too well initially



Tuffoldhen
SEE URL : http://backyardchickens.yuku.com/topic/ … e-Box.html – for a very long, excellent list of medications and treatments that everyone should have on hand for emergencies.

ChickaD
Cayenne pepper, can be mixed with garlic powder, an antibiotic. The cayenne pepper stops bleeding from a wound and helps prevent shock. (fox attack)

patandchickens (URL’s)
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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/v … p?id=10769
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/v … hp?id=6446
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/v … hp?id=3054

chickn
Ground raw hulled Pumpkin Seeds are a good natural wormer.
Apple Cider Vinegar at a rate of 1 tablespoon per gallon of water (daily) is a natural remedy to help ward of worms.
In the coop I have a box of paper towels and a bottle of hand sanitizer.

lilchick
Vics Vapor Rub it stops the picking cause it tastes so bad....

Baby wipes for you and the birds...

Baby oil to use on leg mites...

Pet toe nail clippers.. for nails, spurs and trimming beaks too...

Sissors to trim wings and those dirty "butt" feathers...

Extra syringes and needles for injectable meds.....

Ivermectin.... can use horse wormer it is cheaper and easier to get than liquid... great for tapeworms that regular wormers can't kill....

 

[jaimslee4u]

Quote:

- I think you got it!!!!!!! I deff second the Betadine (use it all the time), Peroxide, & Neosporin. Also vet wrap is a good one to have on hand oh & A&D ointment is a good one in the winter.

 

[NYREDS]

Louse powder, a Coccidiostat & a hatchet.

 

[Loddie Da]

Thanks guys...

I just didn't want to miss anything

I also try to keep:

IV kit
IV pain killer (don't recall the name)
Bulb syringe
Disposable tourniquets
Tweezers
Tick remover
Sugar (I have found nothing works better then sugar water to perk up chicks on death's door)
Feeding tube
Cold packs
Heating packs
Battery operated heating pad or blanket (works grate for saving embryos in a power outage)
Scalpel
Sevin dust
Super glue
Elizabethan collar (you put it on backwards, cone part down on birds)
Cable ties
Bird hand feeding formula
Kelp powder (I swear by the stuff...)
Small cage
Stethoscope
Dental pick (cleans out nose blockages better then anything else I'v tried)
Pedialyte
Cat harness & leash (for birds that can't stand but want to, tie it so they can't laid down 3 times for 15 mins. each a day to help rebuild leg strangth)
Laser thermometer
Normal thermometer

 

[mauigirl]

Researched sulmet and corid found this sight http://fowlfacts.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=medshhh&action=display&thread=152
specifcally "Severe infections of coccidiosis will result in young chickens being sleepy and sitting with ruffled feathers. In cases of cecal coccidiosis, dropping will contain blood. Heavy mortality can result if treatment is not started immediately.

Treatment consists of drugs such as liquid amprolium or sulfa drugs (Sulmet, ESB3 or Whitsyn), but one should be careful with sulfa drugs, as they can be toxic when given too long or in too high dosages.

Never give sulfa drugs to laying hens. In E. Necatrix infectious blood may occur in the intestine and mortality can be 1% per week or more.
E. Acervulina infections are less dramatic, but tend to be more chronic in nature with long term damage to the intestine and resulting in smaller, unthrifty pullets that do not produce enough eggs.

If chickens appear sick and ruffled from coccidiosis, get a diagnosis at a diagnostic laboratory. It can be made quickly and medication started immediately.


Amprolium (Corid) - for treating coccidiosis; very safe. (See recommended dose under coccidiosis).

Sulfaquinoxaline or Sulfamethazine - water or feed; less safe; somewhat toxic to bone marrow. Withdrawal - 10 days."