The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: Bywaters on October 15, 2023, 02:32:17 pm
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What do you all do with the part empty bottles of wormer etc ?
Is there a cheap (safe and legal) way or is it to the vet with lots of £££ ?
ALso what about sharps ? Will your local pharmacy accpet them or can you give them to a needle exchange type scheme or is it also take to the vet with lots of £££
Curious
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Vets used to take empties (and full sharps containers), but many do not now do so.
I'll be interested to see what other folks are doing now, I guess we are stashing them until we need the space! (We have tiny numbers, we can stash empties for a while before it starts to be a problem.)
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Get a sharps container, take it to the vet when it’s full- I bought ours 4 or 5 years ago (maybe more) and it’s still not full, so doesn’t exactly break the bank! And we use a lot of needles. We also have a plastic bottle bin on farm for bottle disposal, had it a couple of years now and again it’s still not full. Again will take it back to the vet for disposal, or you can call a clinical waste company I guess.
Part used wormers can and should go back to your vet. Empty wormer and pour on bottles go for disposal with our spray cans.
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Some years ago I took our full sharps container to our vet for disposal. They were really shocked as no one else had ever asked that before. So what are all the big farmers around here doing with their sharps and so on?
We haven't filled the replacement yet. The trick is to put only the needles in the sharps bin so it takes ages to fill and dispose of the syringes in the rubbish.
We now have such small numbers of livestock that any meds we need are dispensed individually or stuff like wormer decanted into a small bottle by our vet practice for the number of animals needing dosed.