Camelina oil pump drips

[MissusS]

I have my mare on camelina oil per the vets recommendation and it has been doing a great job for her. The problem I find is the pump drips! Usually after I pump out the oil it will drip drip drip for up to a minute before stopping. I thought perhaps it had to do with air pressure (something inside the pump needing to “equalize”?) but it does it whether the bottle is full or half empty. Before I just go out and buy a new pump, does anyone know how to fix this? I have fiddled with how tightly it is screwed on to the jug and also the orientation of the nozzle compared to the jug but that does not seem to help.

The dogs at the farm love to come lick up any extra drips, but I hate wasting product if it keeps dripping after I am done. I also considered putting a little cup under the nozzle to catch the drips but that’s not exactly a realistic long-term solution given my set-up.

Any thoughts?

[walkinthewalk]

If I remember correctly my first pump dripped on the Camelina oil and I couldn’t stop it. I was able to keep a cup under it.

Since you can’t do that, investing in a new pump is my only thought. I know they are around $10 but it’s still better than losing all that oil.

I love Camelina Oil! Happy to hear your vet thinks it’s beneficial:)

[yaya]

I don’t know what pump comes with your camelina oil, but I have not found a 1oz pump that won’t drip. I have ordered from several different places, but they all look like they were made in the same factory.

Correct that - one pump I had from many many years ago (and cannot find another one like it anywhere I have looked) does not drip, so I am guarding it like the crown jewels. But now it is clogged somehow, so does not vent and makes the gallon jug collapse from the vacuum. So I have to untwist the cap after every use to let air back in. But at least it doesn’t drip!

If anybody finds a 1oz pump that doesn’t drip, could you let us all know?? Please!!!

[MissusS]

In absence of a non-dripping pump perhaps I may have to suck it up and just pour to measure.

I cannot put a cup under it as the feed room in the barn is also the cat room so anything precariously (or not so precariously) perched begs to be batted down. Plus, even without the cats things get jostled around a fair amount so it would likely just tumble off anyway. I can keep it in my locker, but the feed room is the best temperature controlled option especially in the winter… plus my locker is short on space and I don’t particularly look forward to having oil drip on things in there, either

[Jarpur]

@walkinthewalk

Camelina Oil

I’m unfamiliar with that product, but could you obtain one of those quart squeeze bottles that allows for measuring out up to an ounce at a time, and refill it from the larger container as necessary? I’m including a link to the KER EO-3 quart size as an illustration of what I mean. I’ve done this with another product – used the gallon to refill the quart that I’d purchased first. Don’t know where to buy an empty bottle though.

EO-3™

[MissusS]

Huh… I’ve never seen this before but it’s a good idea!!

[Jarpur]

I’ve seen them for Super Chasteberry supplement, the first quart I bought of EO-3, and also a concentrated fly spray. Figure the bottles must be out there somewhere.

ETA: think I found one in the 16 oz size:

Bottle -- Measuring - 16 Ounce - Double Neck - Each

[yaya]

They are also called Bettix bottles. Be sure to check if you have to buy the caps separately.

16 oz Natural HDPE Plastic Twin Neck Measure & Pour Graduated Bettix...

[Larbear]

Put something underneath the front part of the container so it tips back. That may help. I string up 60 mL syringes underneath to catch if it drips (was doing that before tipping the container back) that way there’s no waste.

[Pico_Banana]

The pump that comes with lubrisyn does NOT drip! And you can order just the pump on their website. It pumps half an ounce so just do two pumps.

[JB]

The pump that came with my Cocosoya oil also drips just like that. My solution is to have the bucket it goes into sitting right under it. I pump the oil in, and then it just stays where for the few minutes it takes me to finish fixing the buckets, by which time it’s stopped. It’s a pita for sure

If you’re dosing in terms of ounces, the Bettix-style bottles are a great option

[RhythmNCruise]

Had the same issue with the CocoSun oil I fed. Now feeding the granular version. I did a cup under the spout to catch the drips and then would occasionally pour the cup over the feed. There’s a mouse in the feed room who was all about some CocoSun oil! Mouse poop all around the jug and cup, and often the cup face down in the middle of the feed room floor, contents spilled, more mouse poop. (The mouse looks great though, good weight, very shiny, LOL).

I took that pump when the CocoSun was gone and put it in a big jug of Canola oil. Feeding that to another horse with another feed room. I set the jug in the over-fence feeder that sits in her feed room and is rarely used. It keeps the oil in there at least. Now and then she can eat out of that bucket and she’ll get plenty of yummy oil.

[Minxitbabe]

I have been using 100x Gutx for my horse and I was seeing people on the Facebook group say they use silicone stanley cup type straw covers. Amazon has a ton of them cheap! So far so good.

[MissusS]

@Minxitbabe

silicone stanley cup type straw covers

So at first I didn’t wrap my brain around what this meant so of course I went off to google… now I MUST buy these. But first I have to find the perfect designs to suit the purpose… I feel like I just leveled up in a way that I had no idea existed.