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Herbie Reg. Oct 2003	Posted 2018-04-06 9:26 AM Subject: RE: Getting your horse to eat supplements
Whack and Roll Posts: 6342 Location: NE Texas	Soaked hay bellets or cubes work well to hide things they don't typically want to eat.
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hoofs_N_bridles Reg. Feb 2017	Posted 2018-04-06 10:18 AM Subject: RE: Getting your horse to eat supplements
Veteran Posts: 113 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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Gunnin to Play Reg. Nov 2005	Posted 2018-04-06 10:24 AM Subject: RE: Getting your horse to eat supplements
Sparklin Cowgirl Posts: 4379	My picky eater LOVES Healthy Coat. A pump of that on his feed and he licks the feed bin clean.
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IdahoBarrelRacer756 Reg. May 2015	Posted 2018-04-06 12:01 PM Subject: RE: Getting your horse to eat supplements
Veteran Posts: 111	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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Ohiobarrelracer Reg. Feb 2017	Posted 2018-04-09 10:44 AM Subject: RE: Getting your horse to eat supplements
Extreme Veteran Posts: 534 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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horsegirl Reg. Feb 2004	Posted 2018-04-09 11:51 AM Subject: RE: Getting your horse to eat supplements
The One Posts: 7998 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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