What’s in your horse first aid kit?

[Flying_Form]

After years of having random piles of bandages, creams, duct tape, gauze etc thrown around the tack room and I’m actually properly putting together a first aid kit so next time the horses get a lump or bump I’m not searching endlessly around for what I need.

So I ask, what’s in your horsey first aid kits?

 

[meleeka]

I used to have a lovely first aid kit, but I found it dwindling because nobody else seemed to bother having one and didn’t replace anything they ‘borrowed’. These days it’s just a collection of stuff that’s hidden in a cupboard.

I have the usual bandages, vetwrap, a roll of cotton wool (can be used for bandaging or as a clean wipe), Animalintex, tape, antiseptic/antibacterial spray, scissors, pliers, wire cutters, thermometer, syringes, sudocrem, Hibiscrub. I’m sure there’s loads more lotions and potions i’ve collected over the years too.

 

[milliepops]

Off the top of my head..
Thermometer
Sharp scissors
Cotton wool
Animalintex
Vetwraps
Melolins
Various bandages, soffban etc
Intrasite gel
Medi honey
Syringes
Hibiscrub
Povidone iodine
Gloves
Various other lotions/potions like vetericyn
Sedalin
Stash of emergency bute

And my shoe pulling tools live with first aid stuff

All stowed away in a clean box. I have a cut down version on the lorry.

 

[scats]

More vet wrap than you think you’ll need! Once you have an abscess to deal with, you’ll go through the stuff faster than you can even believe.

My first aid kit is similarly stocked to MPs above.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

Hibiscrub
Medicated soap
Povidine iodine
Sterile saline
Sterile swabs
Gamgee
Vet wrap
Thermometer
Sudocrem
Gloves
Scissors
Nothing else needed for emergencies, if you can surgically scrub a wound, wrap it, take tpr and know your horses normal tpr then that’s what you need. If shod then you need gear to remove shoes.

 

[SBJT]

Okay…

Thermometer
Stethoscope
Dermagel
Hibitane
Scissors
Human large scale first aid kit (the Red Cross style) it has a lot of stuff needed in a horse first aid kit
Cotton wraps
Vet wrap
Vaseline
Duct tape (and lots of it)
Bute and molasses as pony refuses to eat bute and Murphy’s law means you’ll be in the back country when you need it
Tail wrap
Sheepskin covers for head collar (had it happen where we were in the back country and the horse got an open wound where the head collar goes
Gauze
Iodine or betadine, actually I may have both
Wonder dust
Dexamethasone but that was an old prescription
Needles
Syringes of various sizes
Horse boot
Baler twine

I’m sure I have a few other things too but for the life of me can’t remember.