As I understand it you are supposed to keep all empty bottles etc for a set period - two years? This is in case of disease presumably, or contaminated med batches, when the actual stuff can be tested. I think it is inviting disaster to have old and half used bottles hanging around so I am going to dispose of mine whenever they are replaced with new. No-one has ever asked to see my old bottles
Maybe I've got it wrong and I will be done for having old meds hanging around
Hi Sally, please don't take offence when I mention that SOME farmers are bad at storing meds
- I did say that some are good. As with people everywhere, some are bad, some are good; some smallholders are bad, some are good. Some farmers don't mind in the least being asked for medicines to treat their neighbours animals, for the reasons you give, but others find it can wear a bit thin treating someone else's animals when many meds cost a fair bit. Certainly if someone with just a few animals has a kindly neighbour who is happy to treat their stock in with their own, then they are lucky to have such a person. But to EXPECT 'a local farmer', whoever the lucky chap may be, to provide meds for you has to be wrong, or at least thoughtless. As for poor storage - well, maybe it's because I spent my working life nursing in hospitals but I have seen some sights on farms which have made my hair stand on end - and I include smallholdings in with 'farms'
So for me, being independant where meds are concerned is a principle I stick by, and I wanted to put the alternative view to 'ask a local farmer'
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