Antibiotics - help!!!!

[cidermillcottage1]

Hi there,

I am having to give me mare antibiotics in the powder form - 2 sachets for 10 days and am struggling already!! She won't take it through her food no matter how well i try to hide it with molasses - she can smell it a mile off so I have resorted to mixing it with water and giving it to her as a paste like wormer but she is getting really cunning and just holds it in her mouth then spits it out!! has anyone got any other ideas? - i have tried jam sandwiches but she doesn't like them either!!!

 

[alicep]

Alice took hers in her feed mixed in with some apple juce or fruit cordial. do you think she would try it if yu made her a smoothie type paste with liquidised carrots/apples? id like to know other peoples suggestions as alice is a nightmare when it comes to powder medicine.

 

[K27]

You could ask your vet to swap the powders for a paste syringe instead (like a wormer)- it depends what antibiotic you are using as to whether they make a syringe version- I know they do an Equitrim syringe for example. I think I would phone my vet.

 

[pennyh]

can you inject? if so you could ask your vet for i/m antibiotics

 

[maestro]

We mix ours with natural yoghurt in a washed out wormer syringe and give like a wormer if they wont eat it. Our mare had to have sachet twice daily for three weeks after she prolapsed, she'd have been a pin cushion to inject

 

[foraday]

is it noradine? Just mix with warm water and stick into a large syringe!

Good luck!

 

[cidermillcottage1]

Thanks for all your help!! Apple juice with the feed worked a treat!!! She got too cunning for the syringe and would just spit it all out!!!
thanks again

 

[chestnut cob]

Mix it with water and suck it into a syringe. then syringe it into her mouth, hold head up so she can't spit it out. Only way I could get antibiotics and bute into my horse after his op.

 

[slimdizzy]

black treacle sandwiches.worked for me .