Help needed - very fussy TB not eating her medicine!

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My 6yr old TB who will normally eat anything and everything is refusing to eat because she is on alot of antibiotics! If we put the drugs in her feed she wont eat it and if we syringe them she wont eat or drink anything else!

Any ideas anyone???
 
a friend of mine used to melt xtra strong mints to make a paste to mix with drugs and then syringe them down. Have you tried that?

Another puts apple juice in feeds when trying to disguise drugs
 
Have you tried mint? My boy won't touch his feed if it has anything unusual in it, especially antibiotics. Someone at the yard suggested mint (NAF and a couple of other suppliers make it). It comes in a tub and you just load it in. It smells like mint sauce - gorgeous!! I put two scoops in a feed he wasn't touching, and he licked the bowl clean. Literally!!
It is great for fussy feeders. And not too expensive too - so if you buy it and it doesn't work, at least you've not thrown loads of money at it.
Hope your girlie gets better soon!
 
Ribena in a syringe - it will need to be warmed to mix in the noradine and also the 50ml syringe will need a bit of the end cutting off.

Make it quite strong as well.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions so far! We've tried molassess and she wont go near it and mint sauce, apple sauve, toffee sauce and chocolate sauce. Currently trying Toffee yogurt in the syringe.

All for a fractured tooth thats got infected! :-(
 
Not very healthy I'm afraid, but you could mix it with molasses. It was simply impossible to get wormer paste down my old mare (never met a horse like her!!), so we gave her wormer granuales mixed in with molasses - just put it on a wooden spoon and she licked it right off!

Opps, sorry, was dithering over my reply when you wrote above that you have already tried it! Shall get my thinking cap on! Are there any treats she particularly likes?
 
I was in the same boat with my new youngster (first fussy horse i have ever had!) tried:
Icing sugar, honey, apple juice, molasses, sugar beet. Afraid none of them worked - predominantly as a sachet of antibiotics is a lot to disguise! Easiest ting is to syringe in - although again horried for them as its several syringes full- but maybe try Ribena as suggested above?

I just got injectable antibiotics in the end- much easier for everyone- would recommend that option! :)
 
Grating apples/carrots or other fav treats and using these to add the medicine in works great. I also use sugarbeet flavoured with peppermint cordial or soaked in apple juice.
 
It is a lot more expensive (well not if it works!!) but some antibiotics come as a palatable paste in a syringe. Mite be worth a try? How about sticking it in a treacle sandwich? Mite need a few sandwiches tho!
 
When my mare needed bute the women who had her on loan from me at the time melted a stable lick with hot water and mixed it with the powder, I was amazed when that worked as my mare is extremely fussy.

The only other thing that I can suggest is to maybe make it into a paste and put as much as you can in a hollowed out carrot. It may only work the first time but it is possibly worth a try.
 
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