Disguising supplements in feed?

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I've recently started feeding my mare Global Herbs tendoneaze, and it smells absolutely awful. I've been introducing it gradually, but I'm only up to 1 and a half scoops. The amount she's supposed to have is 4 scoops a day, which does seem rather a lot! Anyway, the problem I'm having is that she picks out the carrots in her feed and then leaves the rest, this week she is also on bute which is another thing to mix in. Eventually, greediness usually gets the better of her but it still takes her a good hour to finish it. She has a bit of garlic to disguise the smell, but is there anything else I can try to encourage her to eat it?

I've thought about molasses or sugar beet, but will these make her fizzy? It doesn't matter too much right now, because its winter, but if I'm going to keep her on tendoneaze then in the summer I don't want anything that will make her put on weight. She's an extremely good doer, lives out 24/7 and semi retired, so she would only be burning off the extra calories in the field.
 
Sugar beet won't make her fizzy - as long as it is unmolassed. It is mainly fibre, if you can get her to eat her meds in it, she can stay on a couple of handfuls all year.

Cider vinegar might disguise it a bit - I give it to my two for their joints/coats but it hides the smell of the seaweed - which stinks!!
 
Half a cup of cheapo apple juice added to her feed after you've done all the stirring. Once she's accepted the new stuff in her feed you can fade it out gradually. Have to say though, I'd solve the problem by throwing the tendoneaze in the bin!
 
Mine wouldn't eat her supplements, until I started feeding Alfa A
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She loves alfalfa and it is quite strong smelling, so I can get pretty much anything into her that way. I feed it mixed up with sugarbeet so any powder is 'hidden' from her. Works a treat.
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I asked NAF about this as my horse hated NAF Magic (stupid me bought it as a powder assuming it'd be fine!) and they said disguise it with mint... seems to work with other horses, but not mine - he's a ridiculously fussy eater!

Might try the apple juice trick though!
 
I had one where the only thing that worked was grated carrot! He did try and pick that out the first time, but gave in eventually.
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Thanks guys, I'm liking the grated carrot and apple juice idea! Will try those, and if that doesn't work then sugarbeet. She's not usually a fussy eater, I can't blame her though as the tendoneaze looks and smells like powdered concrete. I want to give it a chance to work, otherwise I would chuck it, but I've got a 2nd tub to get through-so she doesn't have a choice really!
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I haven't yet tried Alfa A, that will be my next option I think. I've got a whole bag of Hifi good doer to get through first though. As an update, the apple juice really worked! She actually licked the bowl clean tonight-thanks guys.
 
My horse is used as a case study in Global herbs tendoneaze!! It is strong smelling, but jake gobbled his all up. Nothing puts that horse of his grub!! he he

You could try apple juice, grated carrots (a lot of work!), honey, jam sandwich, mint, garlic, anniseed, or marmite. Guinness, sugar beet, cider apple vinegar basically something either strong tasting or sweet.

Might also be a good idea to mix in with a liquid first before mixing it into the feed for even distribution.
 
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