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Zinc is a drying ingredient, not a moisturizer. I'd think the ointment without would be better if one wanted to try this.
All I can attest to is that it did not dry on the membranes of the chicks I used it on, including two peachicks that didn't hatch until the following morning (more than 8 hours after applying the ointment). Both of their membranes were still "ointment-y". I wouldn't call it wet, exactly, but the ointment certainly wasn't dried, and the membrane was still plenty pliable and was not at all tough. I, personally, would be concerned about using an ointment with neomycin in it without any specific reason. Neomycin is an antibiotic (what I am using to treat the e. coli problem in my birds) and there can be some pretty serious side effects. I don't know what the third ingredient is in the ointment mentioned.