Horse Pill Pocket Brands - What works?

[4LeafCloverFarm]

So I went down to Mr. Picly’s pasture for a dry run, armed with a partial Nutrigrain bar, a Strawberry Newton (instead of fig) and two fruit slice gum drops. No pill.

Offered the Strawberry Newton first and you should have seen his face - like a 3 yr old turning their nose up at spinach. Ditto for the piece of Nutrigrain bar. Very expressive “Yuck”! Complete with squinted eyes. :lol:

BUT he gobbled down the lemon and orange fruit slice gum drops. And wanted more and started licking me all over (his way of saying I really like that. I want more). So, we may have a winner! Going to try in the AM - give him one fruit slice gum drop without pill and follow with a fruit slice with the pill. Fingers crossed!!! :yes:

[beowulf]

Good update. I use spearmint gumdrops for Previcox for my gelding. Works fantastically.

[TheHunterKid90]

Cowgirl’s Kitchen makes an EZ PZ Pill pocket that are made to be suitable for cushings horses as they are low sugar.
I have used them many times and they have never failed me.
Jackie will also send you a free trial with a couple pockets in it to make sure your pony will like them before you go out and buy a whole bag!
She is also running a special of 10% off for all new customers. Try them out!!!

[2tempe]

I buy these for my horse - LOVELY molasses smell, he will do anything for one of them. They are soft enough to break, add equioxx and mush back together. Ask me how I know!
Anyhow, I use only these for treats; the 7 lb tub lasts about 3 months; he gets two/day. They stay fine in locker. BTW I get mine actually from Amazon. And cheaper in the end than carrots that disappear from boarding barn fridge or get mushy and gross and leave me empty handed.
https://www.statelinetack.com/item/e…xoCGbMQAvD_BwE

[4LeafCloverFarm]

It worked! YAY! But the real test will be on Fri for next pill. Will it work two times in a row? Stay tuned!

[SmlHpy1]

I give Equioxx in these treats: https://www.smartpakequine.com/pt/uncle-jimmys-squeezy-buns-7071
So far so good. Though he did drop the pill the other day, but he then ate it right out of my hand. I was surprised. These treats are really easy to wedge the pill into and then I flip if over and offer it to him. He’s never turned down one of these treats, ever. (knock on wood)

[4LeafCloverFarm]

@SmlHpy1

I give Equioxx in these treats: https://www.smartpakequine.com/pt/uncle-jimmys-squeezy-buns-7071
So far so good. Though he did drop the pill the other day, but he then ate it right out of my hand. I was surprised. These treats are really easy to wedge the pill into and then I flip if over and offer it to him. He’s never turned down one of these treats, ever. (knock on wood)

:lol: That name “Squeezy Buns”. Too funny!

[morsekg]

I use both nickerdoodles (I find they are a bit softer than stud muffins) and the dimples horse treats. My picky horse won’t eat the dimples but they are such a time saver with my prascend horse since you can’t pre-hide the meds as they degrade quickly outside the packaging.

Looks like you may have found an answer anyways but in case you need future ideas!

[sascha]

Wiley Wallaby liquorice. That stuff is like crack once they decide they like it.

[4LeafCloverFarm]

So, three doses so far, and not to jinx it, but he’s still hoovering up the fruit slice gum drops! Yay! :tickled_pink:

It’s not an issue with this horse, but just out of curiosity, would one or two of these candies be really bad for a pony/horse with IR to get pills in? Nobody else is on medication right now - I was just wondering. I see at times in other threads that some people with IR ponies/horses don’t want them to have any sugar at all. Is that based on the severity of the condition or just a cautionary thing to not temp fate?

[DinkyDonk]

I crush my gelding’s in the corner of a piece of freezer bag (ziploc) with a pair of pliers and sprinkle over his soaked beet pulp/alfalfa pellet “mush”. Down it goes.

[DinkyDonk]

To the OP: The sugar in one little gumdrop is negligible compared to the sugar in a day’s worth of low sugar hay. I wouldn’t worry–whatever it takes to get the medication in (per my vet).

[flypony74]

I have an insanely picky eater who requires daily medication, a large pill. I have tried almost everything and after two or three days he figures it out and won’t eat it (and since he is such a picky eater, I don’t have many options!). He has consistently taken his meds without fuss for over a year using the Dimples Pill Pockets, which are by far the easiest and most effective pill disguise I have found.

As far as other manufactured horse treats/pockets, I’ve tried Pill Camo (he wouldn’t even eat them without a pill, and they get VERY hard in cold weather, Stud Muffins (sometimes can get a little crumbly when trying to smoosh a pill into it), and the German Horse Muffins (he ate them most of the time but they are dense and harder to work with than the Dimples).

[CatPS]

Those German horse muffins (like the minty ones, only without the mint) worked great for me. One would split into 2-3 “pill pockets.” Just pop them in your own pocket or the microwave to warm them up a smidge and they’d shmoosh right around the pills. I could just toss it in on top of my horse’s grain and he would sift through to find it, pills and all!

[Proffie]

I just use off-brand Fig Newtons from the dollar store.