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| that bute paste is being discontinued. I wonder why??? |
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| Wow! I'm rather surprised by that! |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | What?! Did he say why? |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | permanently? or backordered? |
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Shelter Dog Lover
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| He said discontinued as in permanently and he didn't have a clue why. Hope he is wrong.
Edited by rodeomom3 2014-10-15 8:08 PM
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| My vet didn't say anything about it being discontinued but she did say that the powder was cheaper right now and you got 10 more grams than the paste. I didn't quiz her why, I just went with the powder |
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| What? I hope not! I can't get my horses to eat the darn powder no matter how I mix it or what I put in it so I feel much better using the paste and making sure they get it! |
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Location: Online | That's ok, I like the powder or pills better. You get more bang for your buck and it's not that hard to mix it into a paste. Mix it with a little maple syrup and they eat it up. My horses don't like the apple cherry flavored kind but LOVE the orange flavored. :) |
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Location: Nebraska | I just mix the powder with a little water and syringe it to them. |
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Location: In The Land of Cotton | Either way doesn't matter to me. However, I like to keep a tube just for traveling. Much easier to deal with. Thanks for the heads up. |
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  More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | With ooodles of compounders I can't imagine they all would quit making it? I don't use it, have some tabs on hand if needed. I'm a Previcoxx girl. |
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Location: Do I hear Banjos? | I order directly through Henry Schein...my long time friend and sales person there told me it is on Manufacturer Backorder for 6 months...not gone forever. But who knows.
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Location: MD | no!
i'm blessed with one horse and can squirt the bute paste in his feed and he'll gobble it up but he'll eat anything handed to him. my other one will take the peppermint paste one but won't even look at his grain if the powder is in there...  if this is true I may be asking for directions in how to make it into a paste! |
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You get what you give
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Location: Texas | CYA Ranch - 2014-10-16 7:36 AM
With ooodles of compounders I can't imagine they all would quit making it? I don't use it, have some tabs on hand if needed. I'm a Previcoxx girl.
I have both. I like how I can use bute right then and get a benefit out of it, say for a horse who has acute pain like an abscess or just got kicked by someone. I like previcox for the horses who get a little body sore and I have a few days to load them and get the concentrations steady in their system. |
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More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | casualdust07 - 2014-10-16 8:34 AM CYA Ranch - 2014-10-16 7:36 AM With ooodles of compounders I can't imagine they all would quit making it? I don't use it, have some tabs on hand if needed. I'm a Previcoxx girl. I have both. I like how I can use bute right then and get a benefit out of it, say for a horse who has acute pain like an abscess or just got kicked by someone. I like previcox for the horses who get a little body sore and I have a few days to load them and get the concentrations steady in their system.
Yep that's why I carry the tabs. My mare is a brat about taking paste so the tabs are cheaper plus easier to give her. |
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Location: The Oklahoma plains. | We have had a bute paste issue for a while in our area. All they had were those super hard big tubes that everyone hates.
We have used tabs for years anyhow but the paste is sure easy to use (the old kind that is). |
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Location: Broxton, Ga | A post I saw mentioned something as to finding another manufacturer.......but yes it is being discontined.... |
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | TurnLane - 2014-10-16 7:56 AM We have had a bute paste issue for a while in our area. All they had were those super hard big tubes that everyone hates.
We have used tabs for years anyhow but the paste is sure easy to use (the old kind that is).
That is how is in our area too. They only have the big ones and I have to use 2 hands to give it.
I always keep all forms of bute on hand. I hope if it is just on backorder they make something that is easier to give. It is hard to hold I high headed horse and used to hands to give it. |
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| Lyric203 - 2014-10-15 9:48 PM
What? I hope not! I can't get my horses to eat the darn powder no matter how I mix it or what I put in it so I feel much better using the paste and making sure they get it!
Have you tried mixing it with rice bran? |
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Location: OK | I mix the orange powder with apple sauce and dump it in the feed. If a horse won't eat that, I'd save an old bute tube and put the apple sauce/bute in there and shoot it to them maybe. So far I haven't had to get that messy lol
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