Equimax worming tablets

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penhaligan

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Has anyone else had a problem getting their horses to take these? Refuse to eat from my hand. Spat them out when popped onto tongue via corner of mouth. Same when mixed with other treats to try and disguise them, just spat everything out!!! Any advice or peoples experience would be very welcome
 
We used them at our yard a couple of years ago some of the horses ate them happily but most didn't , we resorted to puttin them in soaked beet in a ball & feeding them from our hand it was not easy to get them to eat them & we wouldn't use them again.
 
I always use the syringe version because my boy never realises what has happened until its hit him! If and you and your horse are okay with syringes, I'd recommend them next time! :)

As for the tablet, some one once told me to cut a cross shaped slit in a minty sweet with a gooey ish centre (like a mento) and then melt the sweet to make the centre more gooey before sticking the tablet inside the mento! Does that make any sense? :D You might have to cut the tablet in half if its quite big and make two mento tablet treats!

Hope you manage to get him to take it - horses are so clever at avoiding these things! :P
 
I just push them one at a time into half an apple and they'll happily munch them up. I really like the tablets, much preferable to the "trauma" of a syringe (I do have one drama queen who thinks syringes are the devil's work, no matter what they contain).
 
Am I the only person who puts wormer into feed? My girl is absolutely pain in the neck to worm, I have been kicked, bitten, squashed and trampled on multiple occasions when trying to work her so it's much easier (And less painful!) for me. I don't add water but give her a large scoop of Hi-Fi Lite, a handful of pony nuts, a chopped banana, apple and carrot and she gobbles it up with no problems. I've had worm counts done and they've all come back clear so I must be doing something right?

Does anyone else do this?

Oh, I usually use the syringe gel/paste too.
 
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