I heard farrier’s formula made a great product, but can’t find it. Any luck with “Equine Flavor Fix”? Thanks.
Sweetened apples sauce. Its thick and sticky so you can make your own paste and give in a syringe or mix with grain. An d comes in single serve so no refrigeration/preserving of open containers.
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Totally depends on your horse and his tastes. You just have to experiment. I’m currently using deer lick molasses. Pancake syrup would be less messy but both horses turned up their noses at it. Applesauce with cinnamon works if your horse likes cinnamon works because its odor can cover up other odors.
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HorseTech and Uckele have some flavorings
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Peppermint coffee syrup is my go-to.
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Do you need liquid or powder?
One of mine loves cinnamon, the other one is orange Gatorade powder, and the third is root beer extract.
I also use water flavoring as it’s cheap and easily accessible.
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a lot of horses really love cocosoya, which smells like syrup, so I imagine tastes sweet as well. It comes in both a liquid and a powder. And unlike actual literal syrup, it has vitamin e and omega 3s
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I use plain old molasses. I put it in a generic ketchup dispenser bottle so I can squeeze it onto food or into a syringe. My mare likes it so much, I can dose her with bute in a syringe without a halter. She actually opens her mouth wide. I also use it on top of soaked beet pulp. Put the meds and molasses on top of the beet pulp and then soak in water for about 30 minutes.
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I think it’s actually made by Farrier’s Fix, not Farrier’s Formula. If you google it as Flavor Fix supplement for horses, I think you will find it. Mine don’t like it. They don’t like peppermint.
Do you only use it when dosing or top-dressing feed? Or do you use when orally syringing meds? My horse is on Pred, but she stops eating grain if it is top dressed and doesn’t particularly enjoy getting it syringed after dissolving it in water… and she is a NUT for peppermints!
Once mine say no to just eating their meds, I go straight to syringing. They only get to waste one dose before I start shoving it down their throat, lol.
So I’ve never tried top dressing coffee syrup on grain with meds. It works great to make a paste to syringe in, no reason you can’t try it on top of stuff in a bucket! Be sure to buy the pump top that fits the bottle, makes it super easy to deal with.
Good luck! Hope it does the trick!
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Oh, once bitten twice shy! Or maybe twice bitten, not ever going to go the top dressing route again… she has only ever gone off grain during Potomac until Pred. She is a grain whore and will typically eat it (or beet pulp) with anything top dressed, so going off grain is a real shocker. Pred must really taste awful… but not going to risk that again. She’s being syringed…
So, sounds like you use for syringing? Not sure my barn would be super amenable to adding another step to the process, but I know she is hating this. How do you add to the syringe? How much do you add? And what pump top? Just the regular kind that they use in coffee shops?
ETA: thank you!!!
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I use catheter tip syringes that come with a cap for oral dosing. I put the cap on, fill the tip with something thick like molasses. Then add the drug powder. Then a pump of syrup. Less if it’s a small volume of drug. Mix with something long and thin, chopsticks work well. Add a few cc of water to thin if it’s too thick. Lube the plunger and insert. You might be able to prep the day before depending on the med? I have mine at home so it only inconveniences me. But between the molasses at the tip and the flavoring mixed with the med, acceptance stays high, and the drug actually ends up swallowed.
Yep, just the regular pump that coffee shops use.
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This.
If you do not have a ketchup bottle, anything that has the fancy upside down dispensing lid will work. Squeeze honey bottles are great.
It allows you to just drizzle a small amount.
You can buy molasses in a gallon jug lots of places (including Amazon) which makes it very economical to use for this.
@ytr45, I am not sure what you are trying to get into your horse. If it is pills I have found something like fig newtons works amazing. Shove a few pills into the center part then dispense a not pilled newton or two, dispense the pill filled newtons and end with a not pilled newton.
If you are looking for a flavoring that is easy to add to your other supplements (so not making more work for your barn staff), I have used this product and it worked really well.
Mask R Aid Granules
Edit to add, I now see the OP asked this weeks ago. Ytr45, did you find something that worked for you? Report back please.
This wasn’t directed at me, but I’ve used it in a syringe. I used to give a horse oral Prozac daily, which was a gross oil suspension. It was only a few cc’s, but he hated it so much. I kept some of the syrup in a little container and drew some up in the syringe after I drew up the meds. He still hated it, but tolerated it. And then I would give a peppermint candy after. And then he would go into a corner and make yucky faces. But he always waited patiently for his candy first.
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