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Pony has been put on antibiotics, high dose and very strong ( has lyme disease) but he will not eat them. Any one have any ideas how to get him to eat it. He tends to just have a little bit of chaff and couple of carrots, splash of water to dampen it.
Have tried....treacle, sliced and grated carrots, polos, mint, sugar beet...even tried a sugar concoction of golden syrup with the drugs mixed in....still said no. Had to syringe it down, but he wont let me do that for long! Any ideas would be fabby xx
 
councillor said:
Pony has been put on antibiotics, high dose and very strong ( has lyme disease) but he will not eat them. Any one have any ideas how to get him to eat it. He tends to just have a little bit of chaff and couple of carrots, splash of water to dampen it.
Have tried....treacle, sliced and grated carrots, polos, mint, sugar beet...even tried a sugar concoction of golden syrup with the drugs mixed in....still said no. Had to syringe it down, but he wont let me do that for long! Any ideas would be fabby xx
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I also have a fussy eater and have tried the following when trying to get medication down:

1. Cider Vinegar
2. Stewed apple
3. Garlic
4. Honey

I resorted to syringe method too. It's awful isn't it?
 
The only way i can get things down my mare is to mix it with natural yoghurt and syringe it down!!
Only use yoghurt cause its usually bute and as that doesn't dissolve needed something to coat it with!!
 
stewed apple....might give that a go. the stuff is so expensive I don't want to waste any with him turning his nose up because his foods not "right".
 
If he really won't eat them in a feed, then you will have to persevere with the syringing, even if it means a battle. If you can mix it with something that tastes yummy, he shouldn't object too much. Crush up plenty of polos, and mix with honey as well into a smooth paste that you can get into the syringe. Failing that, maybe it would be better to go the muscular injection route if you have someone who knows how to do it (cattle handlers are good at this), as lyme disease is a nasty one and he certainly needs those antibiotics.
Good luck!
 
lhotse said:
lyme disease is a nasty one and he certainly needs those antibiotics.
Good luck!
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Don't I know it, second time round for us and lyme's. Had it last year and had to have six months on the antibiotics. Thing is he was more than happy to eat it last year, but the dose is so high this time round. I would be more than happy to give him injections if need be though, have done so in the past.
Looks like I need to keep on with my trusty syringe, but he is a rufty tufty highland cross and I'm only little.
 
Mix it with a tiny bit of water and put it in a syringe, and give it to him like a worm dose, only way mine will take any knid of anti biotics or painkillers, other than that he starves himself, rather than eat anything with them in it!!!
 
Find a flavour of squash he likes without the antibs in it!

One of mine likes apple and blackcurrant mixed with Orange and Pineapple-both from tescos and the double concentrate -cheap and yummy! (put about 1/3 water with it!) IT is the low sugar stuff!

But its cheap and easy!
 
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