Intramuscular Injections - any tips?

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As title!

Am perfectly happy stabbing sheep with needles, but I HATE doing horses
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Any ideas on how to make it more bearable for Mr Rageous?
 
I have only ever done ones in the bottom - and was instructed by the vet to thump three times with the needle in your hand and on the fourth put the needle in. Then attach syringe to needle. Located them in the centre of the triangle formed by the top of their tail, bottom and hip.

Don't know if that method is a bit archaic though - this was at least 10 years ago!!!!!
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Yep, that is the 'sheep' method that my general animal vet used to use on the horses and is the one I am most familiar with
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I am supposed to be injecting into the neck, and I'm sure it will be fine, I just hate it!
 
You'll be fine - especially if you have had the experience of other animals. I had to do my horse for days and I agree it was a terrible experience - but no options - I found the neck easier than the chest as I could see exactly what I was doing!

I tried to get someone to hold him and give me morale support - this made my boy worse - so found he was more settled when it was just him and me.
 
The vet asked me how I felt about doing it - I said I would rather not and was promptly told that he was only asking to be polite and that I really didn't have a choice!
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I just hate the controlled force it takes *wibble*
 
Hard and fast............

I find horses easier than sheep as they are loads bigger...... im sure you'll be fine!!
 
Take a pinch of skin and slide (not jab) the needle in, the Vet will have shown you all this and where to do it anyway. Very easy, much better than on the bum.

Horses do not anticipate it as much as when they see you heading for their arse. After three days of twice daily jabs in the bum my poor horses tense up so much it is like sticking a pin in an oak board. I tend to alternate bum/neck if a horse is on a course of jabs. I don't do the one, two, three - JAB thing either, that just gives them advance notice and a chance to tense.

Hope Mr R is OK.
 
Thanks - I am relieved to have been shown by my equine vet, his method was much less traumatic than the one I have had to use previously! I think I am just traumatised by the stab-in-the-bum technique as it really didn't work very well with a 3yo TB!

Hopefully the course is only for a week, once daily.
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I've tried to tell Rage that me wielding a needle is marginally better than having copious amounts of antibiotic granules in his feed, but he doesn't believe me!
 
I dont thump them in, I just stick them in quietly and depress plunger asap. This comes from jabbing several nervous horses who wont let the vet near them and I've found it the least stressful method
 
Just to let you know that we have both survived injection number one!
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He was the perfect gent, let me do it on my own and has been suitably compensated with extra strong mints
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Between injections and having his dressing changed umpteen times he will never want to see a human again!
 
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Take a pinch of skin and slide (not jab) the needle in,

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That would make the injection subcutaneous not intramuscular.
 
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