Essentials for Medicine Cabinet

Parishlad

What would ye consider as essential items, i.e. drugs, equipment, 'gadgets' etc. to have in the animal medicine cabinet?
I was clearing out the cabinet the other evening and realised that all I had were old/out of date prescribed drugs and the tail ends of doses and the like.
I'm interested in what others keep, in case of emergencies or just for treatment of general ailments (that wouldn't require a vet).

mahoney_j

Parishlad wrote: »

What would ye consider as essential items, i.e. drugs, equipment, 'gadgets' etc. to have in the animal medicine cabinet?
I was clearing out the cabinet the other evening and realised that all I had were old/out of date prescribed drugs and the tail ends of doses and the like.
I'm interested in what others keep, in case of emergencies or just for treatment of general ailments (that wouldn't require a vet).

As a dairy farmer,bare essentials would be A bottle of bimoxyl la,mastitis tubes,,spring time synolux tablets,electrolytes ,nuffor.everything else got when needed

lakill Farm

Parishlad wrote: »

What would ye consider as essential items, i.e. drugs, equipment, 'gadgets' etc. to have in the animal medicine cabinet?
I was clearing out the cabinet the other evening and realised that all I had were old/out of date prescribed drugs and the tail ends of doses and the like.
I'm interested in what others keep, in case of emergencies or just for treatment of general ailments (that wouldn't require a vet).

Thermometer

Kovu

Calving ropes...I always hide them in the cupboard we use as every time I really fecking need them in a panic, they'll be awol tying something up.:eek:
Gloves, lubricant of some form halter is always put over the calving gate too.
Other than that, scour powders, teat bucket in case we need to milk the cow. Usually bimastat and betamox as well in calving season. Those fizzy powders for rehydration.
And fresh, dry syringes and needles!
I'm probably forgetting things as I'm trying to remember off hand

farmersfriend

Bottles of calcium for milk fever. Magniject for tetany.
Scour powders, mastitis tubes, wound powder, thermometer, penicillin in case of blackleg.
spare calving ropes, marking spray and new needles for syringe.
Gloves.

I said

A lock with little fingers around the place.

simx

usually be
couple bottles betamox
1/2 bottles tetroxy la
maybe nuflor
thermometer
2/3 bottles calcium
couple of electrolytes
pen and strep
dry cow tubes

Zr105

Plenty of good syringes and sharp needles in various sizes to cover the varying jobs, and a thermometer would be the top of the list IMO.oh and a bottle of iodine/disinfectant.

Depends on the system after that. If calving a decent set of the red and blue ropes, so much better than the crappy ropes that come with jacks and your not as likely to loose them. And a good bottle of lube.

A can of spray on stolkholm tar is good to if you end up with an animal with a small wound when there's heaps of flys about

poor farmer

La betamox
La Trioxyl for lameness
La Duocycline for pnemonia
Maybe a bottle of Marboysl (super drug)
few bottles of calcium and magnesium
Synulox pills for scour also sulpha med powders
a 60ml injecting syringe,flutter valve etc.

Mad4simmental

What is the name of the drug used if you have a calf born with a hart beat but can't get breathing? It gets them going. It was put up sumwhere here befoure but I can't find it.

whelan2

opticlox for sore eyes, gloves -long arm and milking gloves. scalpel and blade. Notebook and pen to write treatments down. liquid parafin along with nearly all that has been mentioned before

Limestone Cowboy

Synulox, electrolytes, sulphur powders, vecoxan, effydral tablets, and vitesel because there must be a deficiency in the winterage and a lot of calfs have a very weak suck reflex. The synulox gun is a great device too to save the knuckles!

Base price

Mad4simmental wrote: »

What is the name of the drug used if you have a calf born with a hart beat but can't get breathing? It gets them going. It was put up sumwhere here befoure but I can't find it.

Dopram (spelling)
We always have glucose, bovicox, stimilux powders, Stockholm tar, bread soda, porridge, methylated spirits any prescription meds we get from the vet on an individual basis except a supply of synulux bolus in the spring.

Genghis Cant

Iodine.
We keep the calf taggers there too.

Count Mondego

Limestone Cowboy wrote: »

The synulox gun is a great device too to save the knuckles!

Where would you get one of those? Can't see any online. Spare me breaking them up and mixing them.

Parishlad

Count Mondego wrote: »

Where would you get one of those? Can't see any online. Spare me breaking them up and mixing them.

You'd get one from the Vet or wherever you buy the Synulox.

whelan2

halocur, bovicox and rotavec corona, along with interkokask disenfectant

Genghis Cant

whelan2 wrote: »

halocur, bovicox and rotavec corona, along with interkokask disenfectant

Is the RC not supposed to be refrigerated?

whelan2

Genghis Cant wrote: »

Is the RC not supposed to be refrigerated?

yup it is, but its an essential medicine around here

Genghis Cant

whelan2 wrote: »

yup it is, but its an essential medicine around here

We have an old fridge in the shed where the lepto, blackleg and RC go. It's empty other than them few small items.

Limestone Cowboy

Count Mondego wrote: »

Where would you get one of those? Can't see any online. Spare me breaking them up and mixing them.

Vets in Gort is where I got mine!

bogman_bass

alymicen or aluminium spray.

a good variety of syringes and a proper disposal container to take away the temptation of reusing them

16 and 21 gauge needles

Sami23

bogman_bass wrote: »

a good variety of syringes and a proper disposal container to take away the temptation of reusing them

16 and 21 gauge needles

If ye don't mind me asking what do ye use the different gauge needles for as I usually use the one needle for everything and I would like to get start using the proper needles for each job if you get me ?

I would be on about injecting cattle into muscle and subcutaneously and also sheep so if someone could recommend a needle type for each job it would be great.
Thanks

greysides

Cattle:

SC 16 gauge x 1"
IM 18 gauge x 1.5"

Sheep:

18 gauge x 1.5"

Lambs:

21 gauge x 3/4" as long as the injection is fluid rather than thick.

bogman_bass

I use a 21 gauge short for SC vaccines. Slides in like a knife through butter and offer the animal hardly filches. Better than trying to get a 16 gauge through a think whiteheads hide.

Make sure they're the short ones(5/8ths of an inch i think) because the longer ones will just bend

pajero12

Some very conflicting advice there :P

greysides

pajero12 wrote: »

Some very conflicting advice there :P

Depends on the viscosity of what's being given SC, and volume maybe. I tend to use 18 gauge for nearly everything but they will break easier than the 16 gauge if the animal moves.
I use the 'go small' philosophy when it comes to stitching.

bogman_bass

I don't really think its conflicting. There is only limited times you can use the 21. You would never get a shot of pen step through it for example but for vaccines they are useful