Which medications (Pharmaceutical and Natural Remedies) should I have on-hand just in case for different illnesses my rabbits may get?
Which Medications?
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3mina
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These are meat rabbits? In my herd meat rabbits don't get meds as I don't want meds in my meat. I have a scalpel for lancing abcesses from wounds and beta dine for cleaning those, light oil and diatomaceous earth for mites and fleas (never seen them on my herd). Anything else is probably going to be culled.
I agree with 3mina on this. I keep a tube of triple antibiotic ointment in our medicine cabinet and use it occasionally on a rabbit if it has a small wound. It is rarely needed for the rabbits. Ordinary things like mineral oil, hydrogen peroxide, apple cider vinegar, tea and TUMS antacid are already in most households, I think, and can be useful. Food grade diatomaceous earth is a good thing to have around, especially in a warm climate.
It is useful to grow a plant or two of lavender, garden sage, peppermint, some plantain (the lawn weed, not the banana thing), shepherd's purse and a few raspberry or blackberry bushes.
Lavender - feed the flower buds fresh or dried for stalled labour.
Sage and peppermint - Good for drying up a doe. Should not be fed while pregnant or nursing, except in a case where ending lactation is needed.
Plantain - Good to fight diarrhea and a very healthy, safe green.
Shepherd's Purse - Also good to fight diarrhea and a very healthy, safe green. Useful in cases of postpartem bleeding.
Raspberry and blackberry leaves are good to fight diarrhea and are very healthy safe foods as well. Raspberry leaves have applications for pregnant rabbits, but I can't remember offhand how and when they are used.
We did buy Pen G with Procaine a couple of years ago when our matriarch doe, Alice, had a abscess but we knew we would not be eating her and she was not nursing at the time. That incident was the exception to our usual practices. Normally if a rabbit did not respond to simple measures it would be culled.
Unless you have trouble getting to a feed store that carries veterinary medicines, I think it is better to buy most medications fresh when and if you need them. Some have a fairly short shelf life. You could go years and never need them.
It is useful to grow a plant or two of lavender, garden sage, peppermint, some plantain (the lawn weed, not the banana thing), shepherd's purse and a few raspberry or blackberry bushes.
Lavender - feed the flower buds fresh or dried for stalled labour.
Sage and peppermint - Good for drying up a doe. Should not be fed while pregnant or nursing, except in a case where ending lactation is needed.
Plantain - Good to fight diarrhea and a very healthy, safe green.
Shepherd's Purse - Also good to fight diarrhea and a very healthy, safe green. Useful in cases of postpartem bleeding.
Raspberry and blackberry leaves are good to fight diarrhea and are very healthy safe foods as well. Raspberry leaves have applications for pregnant rabbits, but I can't remember offhand how and when they are used.
We did buy Pen G with Procaine a couple of years ago when our matriarch doe, Alice, had a abscess but we knew we would not be eating her and she was not nursing at the time. That incident was the exception to our usual practices. Normally if a rabbit did not respond to simple measures it would be culled.
Unless you have trouble getting to a feed store that carries veterinary medicines, I think it is better to buy most medications fresh when and if you need them. Some have a fairly short shelf life. You could go years and never need them.
Thanks a lot guys. All great advice and information. My rabbits are meat rabbits for sure. 
