What's in your Chicken "Medicine Cabinet?

The things I’ve used most in my chicken medicine cabinet are calcium plus D3 and triple antibiotic ointment (w/out pain relief). Doesn’t hurt to have some plastic gloves, gauze and vet wrap. Betadine, Vetericyn or chlorhexadine come in handy, but you can easily make sterile saline from salt for rinsing wounds. Epsom salts are good to have on hand for soaking wound or egg binding. Mites have been bad this year and I have benefited a few times from having a permethrin powder on hand.

Most other things in my first aid kit such as antibiotics will probably expire before I get a chance to use them, so I don’t think I’d buy them again unless I needed them.
 
I keep vet wrap and sterile gauze (for bandaging bumblefoot). Prid drawing salve and triple antibiotic ointment without pain relief for the same reason. Corid. Calcium tablets. Electrolytes, Pedialyte, Flock Rescue. Albendazole wormer. 1 ml syringes. Rubber gloves. BluKote and Peck No More. I borrow from the horse medicine cabinet: Betadine solution, silver sulfadiazine cream, Vetricyn wound spray. Borrow from my medicine cabinet: Colloidal silver, petroleum jelly.
I used to keep Denegard and a couple variations of antibiotics but they all expired, some never even opened. I'm now reluctant to buy stuff only to throw it away because it expired without ever using it.
 

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