Feeding antibiotics

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hellybelly6

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My pony is on antibiotics for sinusitis following a tooth extraction the hard way.

Trouble is, he wont eat them!!

have tried salt, garlic, sugar beet, sugar beet water.

Tomorrow, I am trying marmite sandwich.

The trouble is, try something once and he gets wise to it!!

Any advice is very welcome! Thanks x
 
Mollasses works for some. We have one who wont eat the powder at all and we have to buy it in syringes of paste for her which is really expensive!!
 

Mix the antibiotic in either custard or live yogurt and then administer via a large syringe into his mouth, like you would a wormer. Bit messy as you have to spoon it into the syringe as too gloopy to suck up but usually works well. The little pots of ready to eat custard are easy to use.
 
You can get Noradine (sp) in a paste form in a ready-to-administer tube but it's over 3 times more expensive than the powder sachet. £5 for a sachet, £18 for a tube. I've kept the empty tubes and as jodie3 says, if he needs antibx again, I'm going to mix the powder into baby food apple sauce and squirt it down his throat. When he wasted 3 sachets by deciding he wasn't going to eat his feeds with antibx mixed in, or an apple hollowed out or a jam sandwich with granules inside he very nearly got a tube shoved somewhere other than down his throat! Bless him.
 
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peppermint - either the essence (use to mix up a paste) or feed supp. Apple juice. I just chop all apples and carrots very finely and they help disguise the taste and after a day or so he eats it fine... other option is mollasses...
 
Great, will give some of these a go and get some molases. Thank you.

BOF I know what you mean about nearly shoving it somewhere else!

If he doesnt have the ABs, he will need to have a flush out, but he acts like I am poisoning him. I got the sandwich spat out over me tonight.

Its difficult trying to hide 1 1/2 packets of antibiotics each time as it is rather a lot and I have to do it altogether as he gets wise to it. Am getting very frustrated with him.

Am going to get molasses tomorrow and a syringe.

Thank you.
 
apony at the yard has just had a tooth removed and he wouldnt eat the norodine granules.we mixed it with warm water and gave it to him by syringe
 
Agree with the mixing it with warm water and syringing it down...far easier as you know its gone down then. I will always do this now rather than risk wasting a dose.
 
In the interests of science, I tasted Sunny's Noradine, his Ventopulmin and his Sputolosin. Please pardon any spelling mistakes on all 3. Ventopulmin and Sputolosin have either no taste (just a bit gritty) or have a vague sweetness. Can't remember which way round this was. But Norodine is ghastly and very very bitter. Don't blame Sunny for spitting it out. Until they make a palatable version, I'd go with syringing it down a horse's throat so you can be sure he has got the full dose.
 
Yay syringe!! thank you. Had a bit of a battle as he is a 16.3 hairy monster, but I can hold my arms up longer than he can hold his head up.

Horse 4
human 1
 
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