How/where do you store all your supplies?

[goatboy1973]

. I got some old high school lockers FREE from an auction company that was going to throw them away and they were in excellent shape. There was a row of 4 attached together so I keep deworming supplies like drenchers, prenatal vitamins, goat pill bolus tool, vitamin b-12 inj., syringes, nitrile gloves, and 2& 1/2 gallon bucket (to carry the supplies in) in the first locker. I keep everything hoof in the 2nd locker such as sm. and large hoof trimmers, sharpening tool, goat boots (for using topical meds on hooves), Coppertox, Dr. Nailers hoof lqd. med, homemade betadine soln. (Iodine, dawn lqd. dish soap and H2O in a spray bottle) for disinfecting hooves, hoof rasp, hoof pick, small metal bristled hoof brush, blood stopper powder, rolls of vet wrap, sterile gauze and 1 gallon of bleach for disinfecting hoof trimmers and other tools used for the hoof. The 3rd locker is my first aid/ kidding locker with a 1st aid kit for goats including trauma dressings, IV set-ups (the IV fluids are kept indoors at room temp), splints and vet wrap for suspected leg fractures, blood stopper, cheap battery powered clippers for clipping around wounds, assortments of bandages and steri-strips and skin glue for deep cuts, birthing kit including stomach tubes, injectable epinephrine, recusitator tool for goats, clean towels, suction bulb, silver foil emergency blankets, instant hot paks etc... The 4th locker is for identification stuff like ear tags/ tagger, ear tattoo kit/ ink, restraint stuff like shepherd's hook, halters, goat collars with goat bells attached, hobbles, ropes, and lassos. This is also where I keep a few gallon jugs of distilled vinegar for the water tanks and goat mineral for the feeders. I also use a plastic tote or 2 for overages of gloves or 1st aid supplies. I teach part time at a community college and am an EMT and human nurse so I get perishable stuff like IV fld/ set-ups free when they are about to go out of date. When the fluids are months out of date they are good only for flushing out wounds though. This saves a great deal of money and if this stuff saves just one goat, it is well worth the time/ effort to keep these supplies on hand. I also share my supplies except for the IV set-ups with other goat producers in my area.

 

[CritterZone]

I also have some old lockers that I use that are really handy. There were old metal medicine cabinets in the sheep barn when we bought our place and we still use them. They are rusty, but we estimate they are probably 50 - 60 years old based on the style and still have a lot of life left in them. We are in North Central Oregon, and we have some crazy temperature swings, so anything that shouldn't freeze is kept in the tack room, which we keep heated in the winter.

For those who live in damp areas - go to Home Depot and buy "Damp Rid". It is amazing how well that stuff works. We put some in our travel trailer 2 years ago because we got tired of mold growing in the windows during the winter time. After we saw how well it worked there we now put them in the tack room during the winter to keep the moisture level down so my saddles don't mold.

Oddly enough, even though we have storage in the chicken coop, the sheep barn, the horse barn and the green house, it seems like every project requires me to go looking for something

 

[Livestock lover]

Lots of room in the garage! I keep all supplies in the garage its nice and cool and can't be stolen!

 

[danielburns271]

Mine, I have kept it in this type of shed, http://www.cheapsheds.com.au/garden...0-78m-x-1-52m-single-door-colorbond-shed.html