How to get horse to take Bute

[Janee]

Just as above, horse will not eat his feed with bute in, how do you get yours to take it?

 

[unbalanced]

Ask your vet for Danilon instead.

 

[Christmas Crumpet]

Or mix it with a little bit of water and syringe it in.

 

[Ginger Bear]

As above ...syringe it

 

[EstherYoung]

Danilon makes life so much easier. There is no way I could have got H to eat bute but he will eat Danilon in the smallest handful of feed.

 

[Ellies_mum2]

Or do what I had to do to get it into my mare. Marmite sandwiches. Marmite has a very strong almost salty taste so helps to disguise the taste of bute or danilon

 

[zippo]

Bute paste and a dosing syringe.

 

[lachlanandmarcus]

I do the syringe method

 

[xxmariexx]

use a cheese grater and grate a apple and a few carrots into feed, and a bit of mollases works for me!

 

[Cinnamontoast]

Speedi beet makes my hugely fussy boy eat bute/wormer. Syringe, otherwise but if you're not confident to get it far back enough, you risk losing some plus you have to dissolve it/add something to it.

 

[teasle]

Mix with a tablespoon of jam and sandwich it in a slice of bread.

 

[9tails]

I've not had to feed bute, but nearly lose my fingers over a jam sandwich.

 

[Zuzzie]

I have tried all the following - neither Equipalazone nor Danillon made any difference:

Bute mixed with molasses - ended up all over the walls and me!

Bute in a sandwich of jam - not bad but still resistant - after a while would not eat.

Bute in a sandwich of golden syrup - better but still not good enough.

As above but cut up into tiny pieces and mixed in a feed. Didn't finish it but dog found remainder and ended up in the vets having gone temporarily blind and hallucinating with the effects of the drug. Happy to say, dog recovered.

Best remedy of all: Quarter scoop of hot bran mixed with cool mix, sugar beet, carrots and apple. Ate the lot.

Hope this helps.

 

[Janee]

Thank you all, hiding in something tasty almost worked, greedy boy ate half before realised, then had to hand feed with treats but got it all in and he is loads more comfortable.

 

[ILuvCowparsely]

Not used much my website but its here for reasons like this

all new ideas welcome http://horse-care-and-advice.weebly.com/veterinary.html

list of ideas for getting bute in




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