Coligone, getting them to eat it

[Maggie2]

Coligone powder arrived today, I couldn't find a measure in it but since it has a strong, although pleasant to me, smell, I literally put half a teaspoonful in each feed for two horses, both grudgingly ate most of it. This evening's feed neither would look at it, took the hay off the one thinking she'd go for it then but she made it quite plain that she was going to starve or eat bed and I could please myself which option she took. So put the hay back in.

Now how do I get them to eat 100g in one case and 50g in the other, daily? It is too expensive to keep adding it in and then not eaten if they decide to keep this up!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

You could try adding Mint or Fenugreek to the feed, or grated carrot or apple. Mix feed with apple juice or pepermint cordial maybe. Sugarbeet might help to.

Mine leaves hers if I put anything new in there, but if I put in her evening feed it has normally all been eaten by the morning.

 

[ru-fi-do]

Ditto piebaldsparkle!

I have used gold label mint powder whenever my horse has had antibiotics or anything 'strange' in her feed, she loves it, it also helps the digestive system. Good luck!

 

[miller]

Ours has the liquid in her feed and was funny for the first 2 feeds and now wolf's it down - does the powder smell aniseed/liquricey too? Was going to swap but waiting until after xmas as pennies tight at moment

 

[Maggie2]

Well this morning the older one, who is in foal and can't have fenugreek or many herbs either, had eaten hers. To avoid waste I didn't out any in her morning feed.

The younger one had left it all night, and he is the one I really wanted it for, he is a foal with possible gastric ulcers and has been seen by vet recently as colicy, and I decided to try Coligone instead of Gastroguard.

It is not so easy to persuade foals to eat strong smelling stuff so even mint may not be acceptable, and please can someone tell me, in the event we ever get this far, how much 100g or 50g looks like. Have a fair number of different sized blue scoops which are marked in mls. Imagine it will be quite a lot if this tub should last one horse a month?

 

[Alibear]

The liquid is aniseedy and the powder is sort of perpermint/spearmint (smells like a stick of rock to me)

My chaps not keen on the powder but loves the liquid.

Did you get the really big tub of powder or the sort of tall cylindrical one? If it's the tall one they came with a little blue scoop spoon which you need 10 of to make up one horse sized dose.

 

[Maggie2]

I just ordered 3 kg, was about £48 if that helps to know, I will have another look for a scoop later

 

[Nari]

Maggie I had the same problem with the powder. For a week I put all other supplements in breakfast & a tiny amount of Coligone powder (there's no way he'd have eaten the liquid, he thinks aniseed is poison!!) in his favourite feed for dinner. After a week of throwing away his dinner every morning I finally gave up & gave my tub to a friend whose horse happily scoffed it down.