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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | I swear i have THE pickiest eater EVER. If its not alfalfa based he will not eat it. Im having such a hard time getting him to eat his dry supplement. Ive tried wetting the grain, he sifts through it and will leave it, along with grain at the bottom. I had success when i was feeding DAC oil because it was stickier but he doesnt need that added fat. Im not using molasses as he doesnt need the sugar. Im stuck, somebody give me something thats worked! PLEASE lol  |
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| I have one just like that. I use Stomach Treat which is Papaya Purée. 60 ccs either on feed or by syringe |
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Location: North Dakota | I don't think adding one pump of oil is going to be the make or break of his weight. If that is what gets him to eat his supplement then I would give him the one pump of oil. |
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| I've had good luck with soaked beet pulp. If the supplement is really potent/strong smelling or they seem to be particularly picky about it I'll add it to the dry pellets in the morning when I add hot water and let it all soak together for the day. |
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| What sort of supplements are you feeding? Is it the powdered stuff he doesn't eat? Is it pellets?
Mine won't eat powdered stuff. I have to get all of mine in pellet form, which mixes in with their food pretty well. |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | MidWest1452 - 2018-04-05 8:59 AM I don't think adding one pump of oil is going to be the make or break of his weight. If that is what gets him to eat his supplement then I would give him the one pump of oil.
He literally gets fat on air. So unfortunatly for him, two pumps a day since he gets them AM and PM will make him gain. lol |
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Location: North Dakota | so, why does he need the supplements? What are you giving, maybe we can help figure out an alternative. (p.s my horse won't eat it if he's feeling poor, so depending on what is going on there may be an underlying issue you're not seeing-especially breathing issues) |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Nateracer - 2018-04-05 8:13 AM What sort of supplements are you feeding? Is it the powdered stuff he doesn't eat? Is it pellets?
Mine won't eat powdered stuff. I have to get all of mine in pellet form, which mixes in with their food pretty well.
My gelding dont like the powered either, having a hard time right now with this problem and he really needs it, so when the powder is gone going to go back to getting the pelleted supplements, the pelleted mixes better with the feed I'm feeding him and his feed is a dry feed so the powder just sifts threw his feed to the bottom of his feed bucket and he leaves it  . |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | Nateracer - 2018-04-05 9:13 AM What sort of supplements are you feeding? Is it the powdered stuff he doesn't eat? Is it pellets?
Mine won't eat powdered stuff. I have to get all of mine in pellet form, which mixes in with their food pretty well.
Im feeding the DAC total performance and its powered. He eats his actiflex which is powered but its alfalfa based to he cleans that up and he eats his outlast right up which is pelleted. The only thing i have issue with is the TP and they dont offer it in pellet form. Even if they did i dont think he would eat it. He sifted right through the cool gut and its pelleted. Hes ridiculous! |
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Location: North Dakota | IMO, find a pelleted form vitamin supplement-there's plenty out there! |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | LMS - 2018-04-05 9:33 AM so, why does he need the supplements? What are you giving, maybe we can help figure out an alternative. (p.s my horse won't eat it if he's feeling poor, so depending on what is going on there may be an underlying issue you're not seeing-especially breathing issues)
The only one he isnt eating is the DAC total performance and its powered. Its an all around supplement. Hes eating everything else. Hes in good healthy shape and feeling good, Vet was just out last week and everything checked out. Its literally just him being picky. He does it with all dry supplements unless its alfalfa based. |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | LMS - 2018-04-05 9:41 AM IMO, find a pelleted form vitamin supplement-there's plenty out there!
any suggestions or prefered brands/kinds?? |
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Location: North Dakota | I feed woody's bloom n groom or manna pro sho glo. BUT there's all kinds-maybe looking on state line tack at their vitamin and mineral supplements you can find one that is comparable to the DAC?? But in a pelleted form.
https://www.statelinetack.com/supplements/vitamin-and-mineral/1570/
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| I pour aloe vera juice on mine and stir it all up. It makes pretty much everything stick, and it's good for their stomachs.
ETA: Plus, every horse I've had loves the taste of it. It even masks the awful taste of MSM, which I always have trouble getting new horses to eat.
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Location: North Dakota | IdahoBarrelRacer756 - 2018-04-05 9:20 AM I pour aloe vera juice on mine and stir it all up. It makes pretty much everything stick, and it's good for their stomachs. ETA: Plus, every horse I've had loves the taste of it. It even masks the awful taste of MSM, which I always have trouble getting new horses to eat.
HA ha, this is funny! My picky horse will not eat aloe AT ALL but, MSM-that's OK....weirdo |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | IdahoBarrelRacer756 - 2018-04-05 10:20 AM I pour aloe vera juice on mine and stir it all up. It makes pretty much everything stick, and it's good for their stomachs. ETA: Plus, every horse I've had loves the taste of it. It even masks the awful taste of MSM, which I always have trouble getting new horses to eat.
LOL ive tried this too. It worked a little better than just plain water but he still leaves majority of the supplement behind. He does like the AV juice though! haha |
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Location: Oklahoma | Have you tried honey or syrup? |
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| I had good luck with just grass pellets or alfalfa/grass pellets. Add powders and add water stir and feed. I feed renew gold with it though but even without they seem to like it |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | clover girl - 2018-04-05 12:02 PM Have you tried honey or syrup?
no i havent! i just had a friend suggest applesauce so im going to try that first and then if that doesnt work ill go for the honey! plus i heard its good for minor aches! |
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| I use applesauce to give powdered butte or any other tablet medicine. Crush it up and mix it in applesauce, and stick it in their mouth with a syringe. Plus it makes them good to worm because they think they're getting a treat! |
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Location: NE Texas | Soaked hay bellets or cubes work well to hide things they don't typically want to eat. |
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Location: Wyoming | IdahoBarrelRacer756 - 2018-04-05 9:18 PM
I use applesauce to give powdered butte or any other tablet medicine. Crush it up and mix it in applesauce, and stick it in their mouth with a syringe. Plus it makes them good to worm because they think they're getting a treat!
Do you use powdered bute and mix it with applesauce? What kind of syringe do you use to get that in them?! |
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| My picky eater LOVES Healthy Coat. A pump of that on his feed and he licks the feed bin clean. |
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| hoofs_N_bridles - 2018-04-06 9:18 AM
IdahoBarrelRacer756 - 2018-04-05 9:18 PM
I use applesauce to give powdered butte or any other tablet medicine. Crush it up and mix it in applesauce, and stick it in their mouth with a syringe. Plus it makes them good to worm because they think they're getting a treat!
Do you use powdered bute and mix it with applesauce? What kind of syringe do you use to get that in them?!
Yeah, or I crush up the tablets. I have an old mare that will not, under any circumstances, eat powdered bute, so we came up with this for her.
It works great for SMZs or anything else you need to give them that's in a tablet or powder form.
I either rinse out an old wormer syringe, or buy one of the big syringes at the feed store and cut the whole a little bigger if I need to. It works like a charm! |
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Location: Ohio girl moved to PA | Well this weekend we gave the applesauce a try and it worked!! he cleaned everything right up! lol I didnt use a syringe, i just put some applesauce in a cup and dumped his supplements in and mixed it up and dumped it right on his feed and he went to town!
thank you for everyones reponses, Unfortunatly i tried the alfalfa pellets/beet pulp and he STILL picked around it. Im glad i finally found something that works! HAPPY HORSE MAMA! |
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Location: South Georgia | My high maintenance mare would eat her whole bucket of pelleted grain and leave ALL of the pellets of supplements in her bowl. She knew the size or taste difference I guess. Grrrr. I ended up having the barn girls mix her food up with a good bit of water so it was more like a mushy mess so the pellets would all blend together. It works, but she still is tentative about eating the grain bc she knows they are in there! |
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