Coblover63
Well-Known Member
Our Clydesdale X won't eat Prascend when there is grass. He has got wise to all hand-fed treats and won't touch bucket feed until there is no grass so hubby and I were resigned to him not being medicated every summer. He's 19, retired and only on half a pill a day. A while back I saw on the FB Cushings group that you can now get a pergolide flavoured paste and now that we have reached the time of year when Prascend is refused, I contacted my vets this week to ask if I could have a tube instead of pills. They didn't even know it existed but thankfully they do order other meds from Bova, who manufacture and market it, so they ordered me some on Wednesday, it arrived yesterday and I collected today. It comes with instructions and a small dispensing syringe which meant that I could squirt a pea-sized dose straight into our boy's mouth. It smells of butterscotch and initially he assumed it was wormer and went to try and spit it out but the amount is so small that he couldn't. And then willingly ate a couple of high fibre nugget treats, so it can't be a bad taste. Took about 15 seconds all in.
The tube costs £55 for the equivalent of 50 Prascend pill doses but I'm on the health plan so it was discounted to £49, which makes it cheaper than Prascend. I've noted on the calendar how long it should last, to see if it is accurate and cost-effective.
Just thought I'd pass this on for info, if anyone else struggles to medicate with that little pink pills. Apparently my vets think they will be ordering a fair few tubes now that they know about it, so it's good to know that it's not just me that has a stubborn horse!!!
The tube costs £55 for the equivalent of 50 Prascend pill doses but I'm on the health plan so it was discounted to £49, which makes it cheaper than Prascend. I've noted on the calendar how long it should last, to see if it is accurate and cost-effective.
Just thought I'd pass this on for info, if anyone else struggles to medicate with that little pink pills. Apparently my vets think they will be ordering a fair few tubes now that they know about it, so it's good to know that it's not just me that has a stubborn horse!!!