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Getting Your Horse To Take Medication

 
This week I have been struggling to get my four year old mare to take Bute as recommended by my veterinarian for help with a bout of  Uveitis. Unfortunately, Misty, my mare, is not always a good patient.  She absolutely refused to take her medication no matter what I did. 

Misty joined our family about two years ago (will be two years on October 31, 2008).  I don't know if she ever had treats before coming to us and there are times when I am almost sure she hasn't.  She doesn't like carrots, apples, or anything a normal horse would go crazy for.  In fact, she is the pickiest horse I know.  As we have fought over taking this medication, I wondered how many other horse owners go through this each year.  This need for information that isn't commonly available to the public on websites or by searching web resources. 

What I have learned from this experience...find out your horse's likes before this becomes an issue.  Try different treats to see what they like the best as this may be the best way to give them their medication.  For horses not used to treats...start now!  You don't have to hand feed them, you can always put them in a bucket, but to make it easier to give in an emergency situation, you need to have them used to something.

So how did I find a way to get Misty to take her medication?   I turned to a wonderful resource of rescue groups, supporters, and horse owners for tips to help make it easier.  Here are the tips that I received that come from experienced horse owners that have shared this frustration!

May it help another frustrated owner struggling to give medication!

 
Alfalfa, Hay, or Cubes:
Boil Water and add to Alfalfa, Hay, or cubes then let cool.  Add crushed medication to the mix and let soak until the medication smell is gone. 

 

 
Apple:
One thing I did to give pills to a horse before was to cut an apple
into 4 quarters, then core out a small side of one of the quarters,
put the pill in and then hide it back in the apple with the cored out
part. I wonder if this would also work with tossing it in a carrot or
not.

I'd also ponder if there is something in needle injecting form and
give her a shot instead. I hate it when the horses are major
pooterheads and won't take medicine.

Leann
My mare took pills this way:

I bought the fattest carrots I could find. I would cut into thirds.
Then I would core the carrot, keeping the core. Then I would core a
bigger hole, put the pill in, and use the first core as a "cap".
Depending on the size, you could maybe break into 2 pieces. Put 1/2 in
each of the 2 bigger pieces. Feed the first with pill, second with no
pill, third with pill.

I would also cut an apple into thirds, cut out the seeds. Then I would
core a three-quarter hole into the apple skin kinda deep, stuff in the
pill, and flip the apple skin back over the pill. If she was
suspicious after the 1st piece with pill, the second was okay, then the
third had the other 1/2 of the pill.

Does this make sense? It worked on my mare.

Becky

 

 
Applesauce:  This came in many varieties and suggestions!
Hi Brandi,
 
I have 2 suggestions for Pills:
Crush it, mix in applesauce, put it in a syringe, get the wormer bit thing and put it in.
 
Crush it, soak it in with Bran mash/applesauce or soak into beat pulp
 
Well, that's all I got....other than I don't know if you have a bridle with a dropped nose band...use the noseband like one of those prissy dressage riders...so she can't spit it out...and keep her head up...might be a pain...but may keep her from spitting it out...Hope this might help.
Tracy

 

Hi Brandi,

I always crush the meds, mix with applesauce and then administer thru an old worming paste tube as I would worming paste.  Keep the mixture fairly thick.
If you can, keep her head up for a few mins after administering and rub her neck so she is encouraged to swallow.

I usually administer a shot of applesauce to my horses between times just to give them a pleasant experience.  That way worming time is not such a drama!

I have been told that it is not the taste so much that puts them off.  It is the smell.  Freezing the meds for a short time before administering will, I believe,
help to eliminate the smell.  However, I have never tried this so can't be sure it will make a difference.  If you tried this you would have to mix it with whatever
medium you are going to use to administer the meds.  Freeze the mixture and then feed quickly before it has a chance to warm up.

Hope this helps.  Good luck!

Cheers
Suzanne

 

Brandi, actually the pill shooter isn't as bad as it sounds. I've used them,
and it's easy and fast.

Have you tried just giving her plain applesauce from a large syringe? No
meds in it at all. Just spend some time with her, put some plain applesauce
on her lips and let her lick it off. Do that over and over until she starts
looking for the source of the applesauce, then play a game with her with the
syringe (old wormer tube with the end cut off will work). Soon, she'll start
licking it and sucking the applesauce out of it. Put it between her lips at
the corner of her mouth just like you would worm her and shoot the plain
applesauce into her mouth. You might have to shoot 5 tubes of the plain
stuff into her mouth, until she's really looking forward to it and doesn't
hate the tube anymore. Then you can give her the applesauce with the meds
mixed in it, followed immediately by another couples of tubes of plain
applesauce.

In a couple of days, you should be able to give her a tube of plain, a tube
of the meds, and a tube of plain and she'll gobble it down. I've never found
a horse that it doesn't work with.

Putting it on her feed allows her to smell the meds in the sauce and refuse
it; this method doesn't.

Marcie

 

Brandi,
  Try this. Crush the pill and mix it with a small amount of applesauce. Put the mixture into a 60 cc syringe with the tip cut off, and syringe it just like it was a tube of wormer. Then give her something she likes, maybe a piece of an alfalfa cube or a handful of sweet feed.  Debbie

 

This is what we do when we want to make sure they get it. We do crush
the pills and mix them with hot water, make it pasty, not thin. Take
large syringe cut off end to make larger opening. Mix in applesause.
Put in back of cheek and pick their head up for a sec. -As long as it
is not to thin it will go down before they can spit it up. Then we
always take the time to work with them on the syringe going into
their mouth without fits, lots of loving for being good. Never leave
on a bad note. lol

 


I always put pills in a small amount of water and leave them long
enough to dissolve. Eventually they will dissolve, even Bute pills.
Then, mix them with some applesauce until they are a paste, add enough
water to make it liquid enough, put it in a 60 cc catheter syringe and
administer like you do wormer.

You could add some raspberry jello crystals to the mix to make a sweet
taste.

Susan
Saddle Up

 

Mix the crushed pill in applesauce/ warm mash and then put in a syringe and give it to her like you would a wormer. Pill must be crushed very small or syringe opening must be large. If she has a hard time with the syrigne part do plain applesauce/mash in it for a few times until she reaslizes there is nothing wrong about in then add the pill "powder", my horses love this now.
hope this works better than the "pill gun"
Nicole

 

 
Bananas:
  I have yet to meet a horse that doesn't love bananas.  Just shove the pill in a big hunk of banana, and it should go right down - because they are kinda slimey, they tend not to chew it, and because they are sweet, they don't notice the pill, because it's in the middle!

Good luck!
Lauren from Mass.

 

 
Beet Pulp:
You can treat a horse much like a dog when giving medications: when you give the paste (dewormer or damp crushed pills) hold the horse's head up so they can't just spit it back out, and rub the nose or throat until they swallow.

I give medications that aren't horribly nasty in feed, but every meal consists mostly of soaked beet pulp.  I don't know how anyone gets any supplements down their horses if they don't use wet feed :)  Beet pulp without molasses is pretty much just fiber, so I use it to bulk out my horses' feed and to hide supplements.  They think they got a substantial meal, even if they didn't ;)

I also use Gatorade to hide or flavor medications.  When I give a medication as a paste, I put in a fair bit of powdered Gatorade to help conceal the flavor.  I'm going to make the horse take the paste no matter what, but it can be slightly less of a horrible experience for the poor pitiful horse (at least, they think they're pitiful.)

--
Galadriel
 
Bread/Bread Dough:
Brandi you are welcome. 
 
She has no sweet tooth!!
 
Have you tried desolving a sweet hard candy in warm water or just melting sugar in warm water to make a concentraed syurp?  If she will take that with the vicks on her nose she may not detect the crushed pills, 
 
I would even go so far as to make a white bread 'dough' that is taking whitebread and kneeding a slice- no crust- and it becomes soft and mushie.  Then mixing it with the sugar syrup and the very very finely crushed pills.  she may just take that.
 
Sounds like she thinks out-side-the-box on you

Claire
 
Cantaloupe:
Try some watermelon or cantaloupe Brandi

Just a little bit. My Misti loves it she's not too happy with me as I gave her some dewormer (she looked like she had lipstick on afterwards LOL) and wasn't too keen on eating her carrot as a treat initially :)

Alli :)
 
Carrots:
Bore a hole into the carrot, place pill inside (can be cut into smaller pieces and put into multiple carrots), then add part of the removed carrot back in to the hole to completely seal off the pill, then feed to your horse.

 

My mare took pills this way:

I bought the fattest carrots I could find. I would cut into thirds.
Then I would core the carrot, keeping the core. Then I would core a
bigger hole, put the pill in, and use the first core as a "cap".
Depending on the size, you could maybe break into 2 pieces. Put 1/2 in
each of the 2 bigger pieces. Feed the first with pill, second with no
pill, third with pill.

I would also cut an apple into thirds, cut out the seeds. Then I would
core a three-quarter hole into the apple skin kinda deep, stuff in the
pill, and flip the apple skin back over the pill. If she was
suspicious after the 1st piece with pill, the second was okay, then the
third had the other 1/2 of the pill.

Does this make sense? It worked on my mare.

Becky

 

 
Chips:
Oh my, Brandi... you have quite the character on your hands!  lolHave you tried the salty route, at all?  I had a horse years ago that would take anything as long as there was something like a chip, or anything pretty salty, involved. He loved the Lay's potato chips especially. LOL Anyhoo.  Don't know if it'll help, but it's something to think about I guess.  =)Good luck, and hope you find something that doesn't traumatize the poor girl! Bobbi

 

 
Cocosoya Oil:
Brandi,
 
Try Cocosoya oil, it smells and tastes very palatable (Charlie DID taste it). You may be able to get smaller quantities. I got a sample from Uckele. It can very easily mask the taste of meds. I mix any of Bambi's meds (crushed pills) into her feed and mix it with oil so that it sticks. If Misty is that picky though, you need to mix it in with a flavored oil or sauce or syrup, etc. Try bute paste. Because you only give such a small amount, there is virtually nothing left for her to spit out by the time she figures out what you've done lol. Bambi always tries to give me the OMG WORMER!!! look and goes to spit it out but then gets a puzzled look, like WHERE'D IT GO???. Worth a try.
 
Kassy

More info:

I ordered a free sample (8 oz bottle) for Bambi from Uckele. They have a website. They sell larger quantities of the Cocosoya but you will only need it for her meds really. I'd tell you to get a free sample to try it first but it took them like 6 weeks to send it to me. You'd be better off ordering a small bottle of it - http://www.uckele.com/equine/ezecommerce.cfm?fuseaction=productdetail&productid=432. A gallon is only like $16.95 plus shipping. Not too bad. A gallon of just plain wheat germ oil is around $20. It's the shipping that is so expensive. Read the info on it, it is really a great product and extremely palatable.

 
Kassy

 

 
Compounded Medications:
You can get compounded bute in apple or molasses flavor. It is a powder that you can top dress her food with. Haven't met a horse that would not just gobble it down.

Karen

 

Vanilla is available as well. It smells wonderful and the horses eat it.

Marge

 

 
Cookie Dough Balls (Special made for horses!):

Sweet Medicine Cookie Dough Balls for Horses - updated

Posted by: "lynn.esty@comcast.net" lynn.esty@comcast.net   mlesty

Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:59 pm (PST)
From: "mickiebon/www.userlindiana.org" <mickiebon@sbcglobal.net>
Subject: [HealthyHorse] Sweet Medicine Cookie Dough Balls for Horses - updated
Made some adjustments from the first time I came up with these (about 2 years ago) and thought some might want to have the recipe.
Sweet Medicine Cookie Dough Balls for Horses:
(Works for dry medications and/or supplements only, not paste/gel/liquid forms)
Take
1 stick of vegetable shortening
2/3 cup flower
1/2 cup brown sugar
and mix together
Make each medicated ball separate so that you know the correct amount of medication or supplement is being given.
Take the above mix and separate it into approximately 14 golf ball sized cookie dough looking balls while adding the medication or supplement to each one separately.
Roll in whole oats (the quick oats made for humans that you get at the store in the breakfast area).
You can make up to a weeks worth and refrigerate it.
My horses love these and I can make sure they are getting what they need with no fuss and can feed it to them even if the other horses are around and not worry that the other horses are getting something they should not be. Not saying this is the solution for everybody or every horse, just saying what works for me and the horses I have here.
Michelle Gordon (aka mickiebon)
Heartland Regional Director, United States Equine Rescue League (USERL, IN.)
http://www.userlindiana.org
Volunteer, Stolen Horse International (SHI/NetPosse)
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"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content." -Louis L'Amour.

 

 
Freezing:
I have been told that it is not the taste so much that puts them off.  It is the smell.  Freezing the meds for a short time before administering will, I believe,
help to eliminate the smell.  However, I have never tried this so can't be sure it will make a difference.  If you tried this you would have to mix it with whatever
medium you are going to use to administer the meds.  Freeze the mixture and then feed quickly before it has a chance to warm up.

 

 
Gelatin/Jello:
Hi Brandi,

I hear your pain. Sometimes when Thunder is being stubborn I make his favorite treat. It's oats and carrots mashed up and bound with clear gelatin. Thunder doesn't like any sweets. I make some treats for him and then feed him 2-3 without the medication. The 4th treat, I spread a little peanut butter on. The fifth or sixth treat, I put the pill with peanut button all over it between two treats, like a medication sandwich. I can get him to take the pill 80% of the time with that little trick. If he won't, won't, won't take it. Then I dip it in oil and pop it down his throat, like you would a dog or cat.

 


I always put pills in a small amount of water and leave them long
enough to dissolve. Eventually they will dissolve, even Bute pills.
Then, mix them with some applesauce until they are a paste, add enough
water to make it liquid enough, put it in a 60 cc catheter syringe and
administer like you do wormer.

You could add some raspberry jello crystals to the mix to make a sweet
taste.

Susan
Saddle Up
 
Grain:
If you have time to make her realize that this is all she is getting: put a little bit of her grain in with the meds, once she has eaten the meds with grain then she can have the rest of her grain grain ration without anything on it. It may take her a little while to eat it the first time but, she should realize that she will be able to eat good stuff if she eats the gross stuff first. Sometimes it works

 

 
Grapes:
Slice Pill into quarters.  Then take a grape and slice a small opening in it.  Slide pill quarter into grape and feed.

 

 
Hard Candy:
Brandi you are welcome. 
 
She has no sweet tooth!!
 
Have you tried desolving a sweet hard candy in warm water or just melting sugar in warm water to make a concentraed syurp?  If she will take that with the vicks on her nose she may not detect the crushed pills, 
 
I would even go so far as to make a white bread 'dough' that is taking whitebread and kneeding a slice- no crust- and it becomes soft and mushie.  Then mixing it with the sugar syrup and the very very finely crushed pills.  she may just take that.
 
Sounds like she thinks out-side-the-box on you

Claire

 

 
Maalox:
Dissolve the pills in strawberry Kool-Aid mix and water. I'm told some horses will slurp this right out of the bowl. Another friend reports that her picky eater loves his medicine if it's mixed with vanilla yogurt.

Mix bute with mint-flavored Maalox - in addition to making it easier to administer, the Maalox coats the stomach and helps protect it against the effects of the medication. Mix to a consistency of toothpaste and it will be easier to dispense.

 

 
Molasses:
Well Brandi............ I feel your pain. LOL
My method is to mix the crushed pills with molasses--the stronger the better--and water to make a thin paste and then use a big ol' syringe (minus needle o'course) to squirt it in. It's messy but it gets the job done. I know you've tried the paste thing, but try using molasses instead of syrup.

The other thing I might try is the same molasses medicine paste and mix it with TNT chops (you get 'em from Tractor Supply down here) and see what happens, most horses loooooooove the TNT timothy/alfalfa mix.

Amy in TX

 

All I can add is Good Luck...  ;)
 
When I had to give Chance meds I tried EVERYTHING and ended up tarred & feathered.  Buck could smell a drop of anything and would fling a bucket of sweet feed 15 feet.
 
To clarify -- I NEVER feed sweet feed except for this very reason.  And even then it is stored in the back of my garage.  I found grinding a pill up (or dissolving with hot water), adding it to the ever forbidden sweet feed and mix in with molasses.  Depending on the horse (and their mood) they would often get several cups of sweet feed to try to hide that smell they know is in there.  If I needed to increase the amt of feed to still keep them from smelling it, I would add senior feed.
 
Try feeding the sweet feed (just a couple cups) with the molasses a couple times before you add the meds.  Also, start by adding like 1/4 a pill increments.  If you can hide it in some type of feed that is just a couple cups then you could do this every few hours.  Hopefully she'll adjust to the taste and then you can start decreasing the amt of feed (word of caution, that didn't work in my case).  I usually could hide it but it would take at minimum 4 cups with a heavy dose of molasses.
 
I know the molasses and sweet feed goes against all rules but it's a far less evil than them not getting their med.  I tried all alternative meds and every suggestion I read...  When it got to the point they started taking off at the sight of a syringe I quit.  I don't like them afraid of bute when injured or come worming time.
 
Some horses are just real buggers!  Good luck. 
 
If you do the sweet feed -- pls remember to store it in your garage or house -- some place even the best Houdini of a horse couldn't get to. 
 
 
 
Julie

 

This is what I do:
 
I use a mixture of pills crushed, soaked in small amounts of water and mixed with molasses to make my paste  -  then  I squirt in the mouth.  
 
To start them out I mix crushed grain, soaked and mixed with molasses - that they like the flavor of and look for more, then I switch to the medicated squirt - they still look for more.
 
It has gotten to the point that when they see the syringe with the molasses mixture they crowd around me to see if they can get it.
 
If that does not work then---

Lets go one step further.  What treat does you horse crave?  Can you crush so fine as to make it into a marinate for the treat?
 
My horses love Chaffhay.  I can crush pills and mix in the chaff as the smell of the molasses and the fermented alfalfa over powers the pill smell. 
 
Masking her senses - have you tried the VICS vapo rub trick in her nose?  For stallions at shows this helps block the ability to smell a mare in cycle   so   if it blocks the  strange smell that your horse is picking up from the  pill  in the feed it may do the trick.
 
It will also screw-up the sense of taste so the pill taste will not be distinguishable from the feed.
 
You also may take some of your grain.  Boil it in a small amount of water or soak it until soft then mix the pill in the soaked mixture - let it cool and add to the feed.
 
Again the pill will take on the flavor of the grain and mask the pill flavor.
 
Claire

 

 
Peanut Butter:  Another favorite!
mix with peanut butter then put it in her mouth using a wooden spoon preferably on her palate, then she has to eat it
I had a horse here who's personality was the same. Wouldn't take treats even. So when I had to give him antibiotics I tried about everything. Including buying colon syringes and mixing molasses and applesauce to squirt in the crushed pill but the p.b. worked the best.
If she bites the wooden spoon the dollar general sells plastic wooden spoon look. Made from a heavy plastic.

 

I have one suggestion.... try a ball of peanut butter and grain in your hand, like a gooey cookie.  Not a huge ball, and do not encourage her to eat it all at once... I used this with my silly gelding and this is the ONLY way he would take pills.  I would crush them a bit, mush them into the peanut butter and roll in some grain.  I hand fed them like a treat, and sometimes with no pills.  It is hard with a horse not accustomed to treats! 
Best of luck!
Jen

 

 
Powdered Herbs:
What worked good for me was I got some of the powdered herbs like carrot, apple etc and put it in a little food with the med.  They even have alfalfa flavor too.  You can order a sample pack and try the different flavors to see what your horse might like.

Karen in CA

OK, I found the site to order the samples of herbs.  It is www.witcheyladycreations.com.  Look under natural flavorings and you will see the sample set.  

 

 
Sugar:
Brandi you are welcome. 
 
She has no sweet tooth!!
 
Have you tried desolving a sweet hard candy in warm water or just melting sugar in warm water to make a concentraed syurp?  If she will take that with the vicks on her nose she may not detect the crushed pills, 
 
I would even go so far as to make a white bread 'dough' that is taking whitebread and kneeding a slice- no crust- and it becomes soft and mushie.  Then mixing it with the sugar syrup and the very very finely crushed pills.  she may just take that.
 
Sounds like she thinks out-side-the-box on you

Claire

 

Okay, this works for me with my old guy who will take nothing in a
syringe or if it looks like it may have meds. Take about a cup of
grain (I use safe choice) Mix it with about a tablespoon of vegetable
oil and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Crush the pill as fine as you can and
mix it together. Then mix that with her regular grain. My guy only
gets 2 cups a day. I have not found anything he will not take this
way. Wormer needs more sugar, but we have to watch how much we give
him as he is IR. Good luck.
Kat

 

 
Sweet Tea and other Juices:
I had a gelding that aboslutely loved sweetened iced tea.. If I
wasn't careful, he would take my tumbler from the tack box and hold
it between his lips and tip it up to drink the tea down..

Maybe you can make her a large glass and grind up the medicine into
it.. I think the tea will hide the medicine scent and the sugar will
make it irresisitible.. Maybe even apple juice would work..

Take her out a plain test drink first tho before you waste the
medicine.. ;-)

GL!

Karen V
Montreal

Forgot to add.. maybe trying with a round-bottomed bowl or pot would
be easier than trying to get her to drink from tumbler.. :-P

 


Try melting the pills in water, mixing it with apple juice, and soaking her grain with the apple sauce/water mixture. I mean, really soaking it, so that the ratio of meds to liquid/grain is very low.

Best,
Michelle

 

I also use Gatorade to hide or flavor medications.  When I give a medication as a paste, I put in a fair bit of powdered Gatorade to help conceal the flavor.

 

Dissolve the pills in strawberry Kool-Aid mix and water. I'm told some horses will slurp this right out of the bowl. Another friend reports that her picky eater loves his medicine if it's mixed with vanilla yogurt.

Mix bute with mint-flavored Maalox - in addition to making it easier to administer, the Maalox coats the stomach and helps protect it against the effects of the medication. Mix to a consistency of toothpaste and it will be easier to dispense.

 

 
Syrup:  Pancake and Waffle syrup, Caro Syrup, etc
I have a friend that used a coffe grinder to grind up the pills, it made them into a fine powder and then used a syringe w/syrup, etc.  The other thing I've had luck with is peanut butter w/the pills ground up in them.

 

 
Treats:
(Note from Brandi:  These treats sound like they would be good for horses with Cushings or Insulin Resistance who couldn't have some of the other stuff!)

Skode's Guaranteed Low Sugar/Low Carbohydrate Horse Treats

Treats include eight recipes, 6 specialty trail mixes, "Nutty Seed Gourmet Cookies," "Minty Rose Brownies" -- and bake-at- home mixes for both the cookies and brownies (Just add hot water).

Trail mixes can be used as treats as well as to entice picky eaters by sprinkling over meals. The cookies and brownies-- in addition to treats -- can be used to absorb APF as well as hide Pergolide pills and  "J" herb.

Each of Skode's eight recipes have been tested for sugar and starch values at Equi-Analytical Laboratories in New York. Percentages range from 5.4 percent to 10 percent Non-Structural Carbohydrates -- the percentage recommended by the EC list as generally safe for Insulin Resistant horses.

Several EC members have become Skode's distributors that you can buy treats from to save on shipping.

Visit www.SkodesHorseTreats.com for more information.

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Business Number: 541 659-5831

 

Get some stud muffin mix. There is a site on the internet to order
it. Mix it with medicine and water and she will eat it up. I have not
found a horse that will refuse it. I have one horse that I have to
mix his wormer with it to get him to take it.

 

 
Using Bits/ Bridles:
hi this is sue from england and just read your message. have u tried with abit in her mouth?, as their tongues are less flexible

 

Well, that's all I got....other than I don't know if you have a bridle with a dropped nose band...use the noseband like one of those prissy dressage riders...so she can't spit it out...and keep her head up...might be a pain...but may keep her from spitting it out...Hope this might help.
Tracy

 

 
Vegetable Oil:
Okay, this works for me with my old guy who will take nothing in a
syringe or if it looks like it may have meds. Take about a cup of
grain (I use safe choice) Mix it with about a tablespoon of vegetable
oil and 3 tablespoons of sugar. Crush the pill as fine as you can and
mix it together. Then mix that with her regular grain. My guy only
gets 2 cups a day. I have not found anything he will not take this
way. Wormer needs more sugar, but we have to watch how much we give
him as he is IR. Good luck.
Kat

 

 
Watermelon:
Oh, my goodness, Brandi.  She is a picky girl.  Down here we have watermelon and my horses love watermelon but I never tried giving them a pill.  I did have to give my old mare some antibiotic powder in her sweet feed when she cut her eye.  She loved to eat so much that she ate it with not problem.  HMMM, I'll have to think on that one and get back to you. 

Rhonda

 

Try some watermelon or cantaloupe Brandi

Just a little bit. My Misti loves it she's not too happy with me as I gave her some dewormer (she looked like she had lipstick on afterwards LOL) and wasn't too keen on eating her carrot as a treat initially :)

Alli :)
 
Yogurt:
Hi Brandy,
 
I used to work for a lady who raised show halter horses. When we needed to give meds, we would crush the pills and add them to yogurt (the yogurt was good for tummy enzymes too). The yogurt was them loaded into a syringe that we had cut the end off of. We then poked the syringe in the corner of their mouth and as far back as we could, before pushing the yogurt in. The colts seemed to like the yogurt (most of the time) and it made our lives easier.
 
Hope it works for you.

Gail
Can you try yogurt?
Don't put a pill in it, but just try it without it

 

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