A friend uses Rice Krispy treats for her geldings daily pill. She buys a box at the grocery and cuts each bar into four pieces. She leaves a Tupperware container with 7 pieces each week at the boarding farm. The staff can easily push a pill inside a piece of Rice Krispy and hand feed her gelding.
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I’m having exactly the same problem. My horse can detect alien substances at 10,000 feet.
Nothing works all the time, but I sometimes use carrots with a plug taken out, the pergolide shoved in, and the plug replaced. Sometimes I use a slice of apple or one of those Uncle Jimmy’s squeezy things. Changing it up seems to help, and I always make sure the pill has a chance to go mushy rather than being a hard nugget that can be spit out. A dry treat might need a drop of water to turn the pill to mush. Luckily, though, Prascend dissolves in about 10 seconds, so that’s a plus.
I recently discovered the joy that an oatmeal cream pie can provide my mare (thanks Amanda and the900facebookpony.com), and I use them to give her the small Previcox dose she gets daily. I break the pie into quarters, give her one quarter sans pill, then a second one with it stuck in the middle of the cream part, and then the remainder. I don’t think she has any idea it’s in there. Maybe with the powder you could make it one big oatmeal cream mess and let them lick it up?
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My mare needs a fair bit of joint supplement. I put about 1/4 cup quick oatmeal (ie small flake) in a bowl, add the supplements and squeeze a bit of molasses over, mix until the whole lot is like a crumble topping and place in small baggy or reusable small plastic container. I do a week at a time, barn staff just dumps on feed. I generally avoid anything sugary, but it works out to less than a tbsp of molasses daily. Vet says that is a negligible amount that won’t affect metabolism.
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