07/29/2025
Let's talk about the Medicine Cabinet!
We wanted to show what we personally keep on hand so that it may help another keeper/exhibitor. This kind of visibility would have been super helpful to us starting out! We're happy to talk about our experience with any of the products shown but please don't turn to us for veterinary advice as we aren't qualified to do so as just some chicken people on the internet.
There's a famous line in the ABA's "Chicken Diseases" book that says (paraphrased) that "the only thing you should have in your medicine cabinet is Corid and a hatchet." Which...
You know, he's NOT WRONG if you really, truly wish to establish an absolute bulletproof strain of birds on the yard. Coccidiosis is unavoidable and literally everything else is if: 1. your nutrition is balanced, 2. your infrastructure is perfect and 3. your birds have the immune system that makes you question if they're immortal outside of their own hubris.
BUT.
Not all of us have the space to hatch 300+ birds a year only to keep the 10 best. We're also in a more knowledgeable place in the year 2025. We know that not every chicken in destress must be diseased. That we can raise our birds with dignified preventative and practical care while also maintaining a goal of immune systems that can handle the biosecurity nightmare that is poultry shows or backyards with ---GASP--- other pooping birds!
In 2025, we know that good nutrition is king as well as stress management. Birds that stress easily, get sick easily. Supplements help boost our birds in the same way it does for us when we maintain taking our multivitamins. Keep the gut healthy. Keep parasites low, and only use the big guns sparingly.
Our 'hatchet' option really comes down to irreparable reproductive issues that cannot be fixed with supplements, chronic illnesses, or poor quality of life diagnosis. If medicinal care can't eliminate it, we aren't breeding it.
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