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| Does anyone have any trick on getting powdered bute into a horse that will not eat it out of their grain. Also cannot give this horse any oral medicine as he hates this and cannot do it to save my life! Therefore mixing it with water is out of the question. He's a little turd for sure.. Any ideas welcomed!
Edited by Tatum2 2015-04-23 1:59 PM
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Location: MD | applesauce? |
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Location: Alberta, Canada | molasses? or work up to desired amount? |
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Location: Central Texas | injectible bute, although I hate the thought of that, especially if it is going to be pretty consistant or somewhat long term. |
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Location: Montana | A race horse trainer once told me to grind it up and use a piece of garden hose to blow it into their mouth. It does work.
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Location: on a hill | I hide mine in soaked beet pulp. Or try soaked alfalfa cubes or pellets. |
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| Have you tried the past Bute? |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | PM me I am the original sweetened flavored bute powder guy. SUPERIORBUTE POWDER
ANADA 22-333 FDA aproval! |
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Location: Kansas | Mix it with applesauce or molasses |
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| Paste bute, or use a 60cc catheter tip syringe and mix a lil apple sauce or water in it. Works great, but may need to do it in 2 doses |
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| Sandok - 2015-04-23 4:14 PM
Have you tried the past Bute?
I can't give him anything through the mouth with a syringe so paste or mixing it with applesauce and squirting it in his mouth is out. Mixed it with some of his pelleted food soaked with water and he ate *most* of it last night. |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Tatum2 - 2015-04-24 8:44 AM
Sandok - 2015-04-23 4:14 PM
Have you tried the past Bute?
I can't give him anything through the mouth with a syringe so paste or mixing it with applesauce and squirting it in his mouth is out. Mixed it with some of his pelleted food soaked with water and he ate *most* of it last night.
When I get some bute I will send you some. I guarantee it will be good. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | Corn syrup or pancake syrup! |
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Location: Drumright,OK | I use the alfalfa flavored bute and mix it with the wet alfalfa cubes that I give my picky old mare. She doesn't know the diff.  |
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Location: Kansas | Pour vegetable oil over the food and mix the powder in with it. Covers the smell/taste. |
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| JudyKay - 2015-04-24 9:42 AM
I use the alfalfa flavored bute and mix it with the wet alfalfa cubes that I give my picky old mare. She doesn't know the diff.
Where do you find the alfalfa flavor, JudyKay?! I've never even heard of this! I only can find apple flavored, which my horses hate apples anyways! |
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| Douglas J Gordon - 2015-04-23 4:40 PM
PM me I am the original sweetened flavored bute powder guy. SUPERIORBUTE POWDER
ANADA 22-333 FDA aproval!
Tried this before.. My guy will not eat it |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Tatum2 - 2015-04-24 9:57 AM
Douglas J Gordon - 2015-04-23 4:40 PM
PM me I am the original sweetened flavored bute powder guy. SUPERIORBUTE POWDER
ANADA 22-333 FDA aproval!
Tried this before.. My guy will not eat it
When a horse is sore and off its feed, sometimes it is attributed to the bute; however when SUPERIORBUTE POWDER comes back on to the market there should be changes to improve and will be better than ever. The FDA just needs to approve the changes. |
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| Douglas J Gordon - 2015-04-26 10:12 AM
Tatum2 - 2015-04-24 9:57 AM
Douglas J Gordon - 2015-04-23 4:40 PM
PM me I am the original sweetened flavored bute powder guy. SUPERIORBUTE POWDER
ANADA 22-333 FDA aproval!
Tried this before.. My guy will not eat it When a horse is sore and off its feed, sometimes it is attributed to the bute; however when SUPERIORBUTE POWDER comes back on to the market there should be changes to improve and will be better than ever. The FDA just needs to approve the changes.
None of my horses will eat it either.... |
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| Painaway. It is all herbal. Does not have the side effects of bute. |
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| I would teach the horse to take oral paste/syringes.
I have one who is miserable to do, I have to saddle her, tie her head back in one direction so I can deworm her. She is getting better.
I also work on squirting something good tasting so she associates the taste with the syringe, I have used papaya, or molasses |
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| cheryl makofka - 2015-04-26 12:08 PM
I would teach the horse to take oral paste/syringes.
I have one who is miserable to do, I have to saddle her, tie her head back in one direction so I can deworm her. She is getting better.
I also work on squirting something good tasting so she associates the taste with the syringe, I have used papaya, or molasses
We are able to get him de-wormed and I choose to pick my battles with this horse as he will get head shy and scared of me if we fight it for too long to get anything up his mouth, due to being abused on the track when he was young. Multiple days in a row this horse I know wouldn't even let me near him if I did anything like this. Still scarred from the bad experiences he had on the track.  |
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Location: North Dakota | Tatum2 - 2015-04-27 8:45 AM cheryl makofka - 2015-04-26 12:08 PM I would teach the horse to take oral paste/syringes. I have one who is miserable to do, I have to saddle her, tie her head back in one direction so I can deworm her. She is getting better. I also work on squirting something good tasting so she associates the taste with the syringe, I have used papaya, or molasses We are able to get him de-wormed and I choose to pick my battles with this horse as he will get head shy and scared of me if we fight it for too long to get anything up his mouth, due to being abused on the track when he was young. Multiple days in a row this horse I know wouldn't even let me near him if I did anything like this. Still scarred from the bad experiences he had on the track.
If he were mine, I'd learn to IV him. Then it's your learning to do it, not him :) Alternate sides.
BTW, I HATE oral medicine, I never know for sure that they didn't dribble it out of their mouth and then the expensive medicine is medicating the ground. |
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Location: Up and over to the right | Previcox… tiny pill and my horses have never detected meds in their grain. I have one who is a PAIN to syringe or feed powdered meds to. Little pill all the way! |
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| I do use that and really like it! Just wanted to get something in him quicker since previcox takes a few days to build up and start working. |
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Location: MD | Tatum2 - 2015-04-27 10:12 AM I do use that and really like it! Just wanted to get something in him quicker since previcox takes a few days to build up and start working.
I work for a vet and she told me they work just like bute would but don't last in their system thats why you have to give one to them everyday. |
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Location: Drumright,OK | The label on the alf flavored bute I get from my Vet in Cushing Ok is Veterinary Enterprises of Tomorrow 225 Main Street Mountain View OK 73062 phone 580 347 2770. Phenylbute 1G/SCP ALF PWD-100 SCP compounded. FYI |
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