What is in your chicken's first aid

[CherishedFowlGuardian]

what are the essentials for poultry first aid kit?

 

[JesusChick]

1: simply neosporin
2: iodine
3: vet wrap
4: peroxide

 

[Icemaiden]

Purple antiseptic spray and nitrile gloves, so that I don't end up purple too

 

[JoshB]

This is a great idea for a thread. Gloves are a nice suggestion. Gotta wear your PPE!

 

[Brewster]

Prevention is better than a cure..

#1 Boink proofing, fibreglass mesh window screen fixed on bungee cords works well for this, like an upside down trampoline. They get promptly boinked back down again without injury.

#2 Fonio, for the coccidia they never get if this is included in their diet.

#3 Turmeric and black pepper, an amazing anti inflammatory for the ones that will always find ways around any attempt i make to create a safe environment. They recover much quicker with this in their diet.

#4 Well trained dogs, they're not even allowed to look at the quail, if you hold one in front of them they look away.

#5 if all else fails, scissors.

 

[chrismahon]

Their first aid kit is in ours, but the things we use most are gauze, microporous tape (12 and 25mm), antiseptic cream. Also use an emery file (for beaks), nail clippers (for claws), scalpel and have a very small sharp pair of scissors. We have coagulant powder for serious bleeds, like combs and wattles which sometimes just won't stop. Plastic skin spray for after the powder. Have a selection of syringes (no needles) for applied drinking. Cotton buds and cotton pads for cleaning them up after bleeds. A handy hair dryer for after bottom washing (they like it).

There are a lot of things that we don't use now. Probiotics, (because the rearers here has them included), stockholm tar (so messy unless left to evaporate and thicken), anti-peck spray (we fit a beak bit to the culprit), assorted Red Mite treatments (we steam clean coops). We have some Frontline spray just in case of a Northern Fowl Mite attack, but haven't used it for years fortunately. We also have lice powder but prefer a small squirt of cat flea spray and haven't needed that for years either.