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Location: PICAYUNE,MS | My horse will not eat her medicine in her feed bc she smells it.what r some ways to trick them to get them to eat it? |
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Location: oklahoma | A little molasses will mask any smell. |
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 No Tune in a Bucket
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Location: Texas | How about mixing it in some applesauce and then adding into their feed. |
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| If your horse likes carrots or apples, you can try this. I take a potato peeler and stick it in the end of a carrot (you can use a piece of apple instead) and twist it and pull out a plug of carrot leaving a hole big enough for the pill. I poke the pill inside and use the plug and stick it back inside on top of the pill. I would let my horse bite the end without the pill first then let her have the end with the pill. So far has worked every time.  |
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 The Vaccinator
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | I dissolve pills in a bit of water then add to feed with a bit of soaked beet pulp -- or sometimes Karo syrup. |
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 Tried and True
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Location: Where I am happiest | I have one that will not eat anything added to her grain. So I just crush the pills, mix it in a syring with syrup and dose her. Then I know without a doubt she got it all and I'm not dinking around hoping she ate it. |
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Location: EDGE OF INSANITY | ThreeCorners - 2015-03-24 8:28 AM
I have one that will not eat anything added to her grain. So I just crush the pills, mix it in a syring with syrup and dose her. Then I know without a doubt she got it all and I'm not dinking around hoping she ate it.
This. i have a horse that won't eat ANYTHING extra in his feed and he had to be on antibiotics for 10 days- he loved the syrup so much that when he saw me coming with the syringe he would run me down for it lol |
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 Thick and Wavy
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Location: Nebraska | ThreeCorners - 2015-03-24 7:28 AM I have one that will not eat anything added to her grain. So I just crush the pills, mix it in a syring with syrup and dose her. Then I know without a doubt she got it all and I'm not dinking around hoping she ate it.
yup! I just use water, though. |
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Veteran
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| Vanilla frosting. Crush pills with coffee grinder that u keep just for that purpose - mix in enuf vanilla frosting and maybe a drop or more of water if its too thick and dose w/syringe. Works every time. |
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 It's not my fault I'm perfect
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Location: Where the long tails flow, ND | dissolve in water and top dress |
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Location: Sunny So Cal | -put in bran mash with grated carrots and apples and mix with apple juice.
-put in applesauce
-try papaya, my horse loves this and watermelon
-molasses
-if it is super super important, dosing syringe and tube it down her throat. Then she might eat it one of the other ways because she didn't like this way.
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Location: Alberta, Canada | I'm with the syringing advice. I have a mare that recently needed medication twice a day but wouldn't eat in the mornings so I mixed it with water and syringed it. Much less hassle than wasting pricey meds in feed that isn't getting eaten. |
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