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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Well I had never heard of this supplement...but it was sent home with my S.O. for his horse by the vet that we were referred to for a tendon ultrasound and regional perfusion. (DDF Tendon had a 4mm core lesion from a snake bite that wasn't healing.) The vet sent home Enrofloxacin, anti-inflammatories, prescribed DMSO/furacin sweats etc...and...a $75 gallon of this Equine Mega Omega.
It is apparently a balanced Omega 3/6 supplement. I can't speak to wether or not it's worth the $75 price tag...because not one horse on the place will eat it. Well...I take that back...my "fat kid" that will eat anything finally managed to hork down the TC Senior that was intended for my old guy. I had put just one partial squirt on the feed, stirred it in... and my old Jackpot who ordinarily loves his TC Senior just walked away. The bottle recommends feeding 4 pumps on the food TWICE a day! Geez. No way would they ever eat that. Apparently the stuff doesn't taste too good.
We tried it on several horses and three mules. No one wanted to eat it. Does anyone here feed this stuff? Do you have horses that like it?
I have no idea what to do with the stuff now. Even if the stuff works wonders (as the web site of course claims)...No worth a dime if the horses won't eat it.
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| I have just recently started using this supplement... It has been recommended by alot of fellow barrel racers. I am now onto my second jug and while my 6 year old will slurp it down my 14 year old doesn't seem to like it at all. If I leave him in the stall all night he will eventually pick away at it but he normally just comes in to eat and goes back out. I have lessened the amount for my older guy and am going to gradually start trying to increase it. See if that helps.
Mind you, I only feed 4 ounces of the supplement once a day rather than twice. It says every horse who isnt on green grass needs this supplement and my guys will be out on pasture shortly so I figured this will make it last a bit longer. |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Put it in a 60 cc syringe and squirt it down thier throat, may be less messy to do 30ccs at a time. They may start eating it after you do that for a week.
Not familiar with the stuff, but I bet it has fish oil in it and horses usually don't like that stuff. |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | Well yeah...I guess I could force it down. But honestly it's not worth it for me. I sure wouldn't want to do that long term for a supplement for what are basically pleasure horses since we aren't competing these days.
I guess I can give it to the "fat kid". He sure doesn't need anything extra but a squirt on his feed each day would eventually use it up. I need my senior guy to eat all of his groceries so I will stick to just putting the Forco and regular oil on his feed for now.
I was just curious if others on here were using it and if they had trouble getting theirs to eat it...and what results they were seeing.
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Location: Oklahoma | Barnmom - 2014-05-05 9:40 AM
Put it in a 60 cc syringe and squirt it down thier throat, may be less messy to do 30ccs at a time. They may start eating it after you do that for a week.
Not familiar with the stuff, but I bet it has fish oil in it and horses usually don't like that stuff.
This is exactly what I thought....that it probably smelled fishy. Way back in the old days when Clovite was the big thing, my horses wouldn't eat it, either, because it smelled like fish. I just left the lid off, and after a few days, it "aired" out and they would eat it. Once they got used to it, they loved it, but right at first, they wouldn't touch it.
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Location: High heels in the air... | Mine love it...and they look great...my horse horse is running hard on it... |
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