Boxrest Madness: Sedalin (+carrots) worked!!!

[tasel]

Well, tried the Sedalin Gel prior to hand-walking today and it seems to have worked.

I could not get the syringe to touch her lips, even when OH held her by the headcollar. So I took carrots, lined them with the gel, and fed them to her. She soon realised what was going on and spat a few of the carrots out. Put the gel into her feed instead which got eaten.

I was then able to hand-walk her for 15 minutes, she was a LOT calmer, but still a bit grumpy, so we used another trick that was mentioned in the forum: OH walked in front of her with plenty of carrots. She seemed to demand one carrot for each lap done, lol.

Hope it's gonna continue going well...

 

[DW Team]

Well done hope it continues to work for you.

 

[Elle1085]

another tip for giving sedalin gel is to half core an apple put gel inside with a bit off chaff or feed and put core back in apple as a plug. My horse got very wise to sedalin carrots and feed coming at him after box rest but the apple he was happy with

although don't slice your hand up like i did though

not so smart

 

[lauraandjack]

You can also try ACP tablets, I think it is the 25mg ones that fit perfectly into the hole in a polo!

 

[geraldgiraffe]

glad to hear you had a better day! You got off very lightly with one carrot per lap - i seem to remember shovelling them in practically every stride last time and leaving an orange trail of carroty juice everywhere we went (nice)!