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Well I picked up the antibiotics on Sat morning and came up the yard to give them to Lucy. She has to have 1 sachet a day for 7 days. I put a sachet in some sugerbeet and she turmed her nose up at it :( So i mixed another sachet with a little water and put it in a suringe. I think it is safe to say Lucy was feeling better that morning as i had real trouble getting the seringe in her mouth. She spun round and tryed to kick me, i put her chifney on so i could hole her and she just kept going backwards so i got my OH to hold her while i tryed to put the seringe in her mouth this caused her to rear up the little madam :mad: :rolleyes: But i won in the end and got most of it down her although she refused to swollow and quite alot ended up on the yard.
I put her out and she was so cross with me she wouldn't talk to me and didn't eat any food all day.
Over night she ate 1/2 a scoop of nuts and some hay :) The next day i went up armed with lots of fresh fruit. I chopped up some apples and carrots and put them in a bucket then i mashed up some banana. I mixed the antibiotic powder with a little water then mixed it in with the banana. Lastly i added the banana peal. She scoffed the lot :D Then i gave her a little sugerbeet which she also ate. :D My OH's daughter than hand grazed her while he picked her two barrow fulls of grass and i mucked her out. I then put her out in her patch and she tucked into the grass OH had picked. :D
This morning i used the fruit trick again and she ate all her powder. :D She has also eatern some sugerbeet and 1/4 scoop of nuts.
She has some pills to take to help her liver but those are easy to give her i just put them on my hand and say "Lucy want some sweeties" and she takes them out my hand and eats them. :D If only the antibiotics could come in pill form :p
I spoke to the vets this morning who are happy she is doing so well. They even laughed when i told them how naughty she was on Sat :p :D :D
Hopefully Lucy is on the mend again now and will be back on top form soon. :) Thanks for reading.
 
So glad to hear she is feeling a bit better now, have the bleeds stopped yet?

I'm sure all the yummy fruit makes up for the syringe as well. When the old girl i help out with had sore teeth we had to syringe the bute into her mixed with water, i ended up wearing most of it most days i think. In my hair and everything, ick! Should have tried her with a bannana, will remember that for next time!
 
Yours eats bananas?? :0 I can't get Meg to eat an apple!! (she's beyond fussy - it actually just isn't normal!!)
Well done Lucy though - clearly on the mend and feeling better!! All your hard work Laura.
 
Glad to hear that she is doing ok again! :) When the old appy had to have bute I mixed it with a tsp full of instant hot chocolate and syringed that down her, every day for about three years! She seemed to quite like it that way :D
 
somethingorother thankyou the bleeds haven't stopped yet. The vets don't know if they will or not but atleast she's much happyer now :)

TicTac thankyou i think she may be as tough as they come bless her. :)

Thankyou Ruthnmeg Lucy eats anything you give her. Last week i was giving her her staroids in an orange. Lemon sherberts are her most fav thing ever :)

yorksG i'll have to try that if Lucy goes off the fruit she loves choc to. But i'll need a new syringe. Lucy bit my one while i was doing her and now it doesn't work properly :mad: :p :D
 
That's great news Laura, I've been thinking of you over the weekend and am so glad she has improved so much.

I think it's funny she likes bananas - lucky too when it comes to taking her medicine!

Am off to read your Herbie post now...
 
Thankyou Ommadawn. Lucy eats anything. I've never had a problem with her taking medicen before it's only because she's off her hard feed. She eats the whole banana even the skin. I think they are her favorate fruit. :D
 
What a monkey, but I'm so glad to hear she's feeling brighter. You'll have to remind her that syringes are not food items! That was some good thinking with the banana, I must remember that one.
 
Thankyou Moggyinmanolos thats what the vet said to inbetween all the laughing :p :D :D :D

Thankyou fireflymac i could just tell she wasn't ready to give up yet. :)
 
lindsayH said:
What a monkey, but I'm so glad to hear she's feeling brighter. You'll have to remind her that syringes are not food items! That was some good thinking with the banana, I must remember that one.
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LOL i think she is fed up with all the medicen she is taking. She'll start rattling soon if she has anymore pills :p :D :D
 
What a tough pony! (((Vibes))) for her continued improvement! :)

For syringes, I trained the Spooky Pony to expect fruit juice in his (he likes apple juice, orange juice, citrus punch...). For worming, he gets a juice syringe, the wormer syringe, and then again a juice syringe, and he doesn't seem to mind the wormer at all in the middle. If I'm not careful, he'll try to grab the syringe with his teeth, and eat it, too! I had to do it this way because he was so worried about syringes in the beginning.
 
Thankyou Daffodil.

Thankyou spookypony. Lucy is normaly fine with wormers and any sort of syringe. She was just feeling better and desided to be difficult the little madam. The fruit juice idea is good though i might try it with the Horrid one as he hates wormers.
 
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