BUTE - GETTING IT INTO YOUR HORSE

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Over the years I have been trying anything and everything to get my horse to take Bute. (Tried the other stuff too - Danilon, Pro Dynam etc with the same result - won't touch it). All suggestions have failed - and believe me we have tried everything - but this weekend I had a breakthrough: 2 teaspoons of fruity yoghurt mixed with Bute which is then put in a syringe and squirted into his mouth. The only thing I need to do afterwards is tickle his tongue and make him swallow otherwise he will just stand there oozing saliva and gunk. Can't believe its working!!! What's more, after a few minutes he will take a polo mint from me and eat it. His usual reaction would have been to refuse anything as, of course, it must be poisoned!
 
My old horse loved ginger biscuits so I mixed the bute with golden syrup and made a ginger biccy sandwich with it and he loved it.
 
  1. either Yogurt to give the bute/ Danilon mix into a wormer paste and syringe in
  2. also diluting the Danilon in warm water and squirting it into mouth.
  3. Diluting the Danilon is speedy beet juice
  4. Give him a sandwich with Diabetic jam
  5. is he likes chocolate you could try diabetic biscuits crushed and mix danilon in
  6. sugar free apple juice
 
Instead of all this messing around why not be more direct? Mix it with boiling water, let it cool (very important!) and then suck it into a syringe, and grab your horses tongue, pull it out the side of his mouth so he cant bite and chuck it down his throat in the good old fashioned way. That's how I've always done my wormer and he never loses any.
 
applecart14 said:
Instead of all this messing around why not be more direct? Mix it with boiling water, let it cool (very important!) and then suck it into a syringe, and grab your horses tongue, pull it out the side of his mouth so he cant bite and chuck it down his throat in the good old fashioned way. That's how I've always done my wormer and he never loses any.
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Yes, great idea except that my horse stands at 17hh and I'm only 5'2". He can virtually touch the ceiling with his head and because he knows what's coming he can easily avoid it. I have to put a head collar on and get somebody else to hold him still whilst he is fighting to get away from me. Trying to catch his tongue just doesn't work. If I don't mix it with something creamy then it just runs or flies out of his mouth all over me. He is a blooming pest!
 
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