Horse dislikes bute

Try danilon instead. I use chopped fresh mint to tempt a fussy feeder. Smells lovely and they all like it. Easily grown in a big flower pot.
 
Regandal said:
There's also butagran, may be more palatable. Smells of vanilla.
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Just see f you can try a sachet before buying! My horse happily eats equipalazone and damilon in a very small feed, but I gave him butagran recently, and he turned his nose up!

Jam or marmite sandwiches often work - and you can tell the horse has had his dose, which isn't alway easy if he/she has kicked his feed everywhere!
 
My Welsh D mare can spot Bute in her feed from a mile off and won't eat it!! Then stands there with a face like a slapped @rse about it.

Try asking your vet for Danilon instead: that is more palatable, but Madam Mare still on occasions realises she is being given a Toxic Substance and sometimes leaves a bit in her feedbowl round the edges, but still better than an outright rejection like it was with Bute.

You could try mixing some apple sauce in with the feed, that might do the trick. Or something else they like like Marmite. My traddie cob would sell his soul to the devil for a lick of Marmite.
 
Different drug but mine turned up his nose at his antibiotics yesterday. So I put lots of dried mint on feed and he ate it, and ate it again this morning. Naf do a big tub of it for £10
 
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