Horse will NOT eat supplements!!

[Paris]

Try honey

I have a horse that doesn’t eat supps very well, but loves honey. so I give him about two tablespoons of honey and he eats them very well… plus the honey is good for his allergies!

[SamSec]

For those of you that use the jello, how much do you use?

thanks! Sorry I know it’s am old post.

[Peggy]

@KrazyTBMare

Smartpak I believe has “flavors” to help dont they? Or is that Uckele?

My mare used to HATE any powdered anything. I used to have to put a HUGE glob of molasses in her feed and mix VERY VERY well. That got very old very fast.

When I boarded, I did go every night and mix with applesauce and syringe into her mouth.

Now, she eats soaked t/a cubes, soaked alfalfa pellets, and soaked beet pulp along with her ration balancer and oats. I just put the powder stuff in there and mix it all up and she eats it all and shes crazy picky.

I would try to back off the amount and slowly try to build up to the recommended dosage.

HorseTech has flavors they can add. The sweet peppermint made a massive difference to my horse. His dislike of the supplement had been exacerbated by getting hydoxyzine in his food. It’s very bitter and he’d reached the point where he’d only consider it in horse crack, AKA Integrity Senior.

[Dressagelvr]

Mix with applesauce, put in syringe, give like wormer. Voila!

[quietann]

As everyone is saying: add supplements gradually, and wet the meal so it is “mush.” You might need to start with mush with nothing added. My mare will eat almost anything in her mush, but picks around powdered stuff as much as she can.

One added advantage of “mush” is that it gets a little extra water into them. We go from mush to “soup” made with warm water when the temperature gets cold.

[beau159]

My Red is very picky too.

If I have to give him something short term, I put it in a syringe with applesauce and “force feed it”.

I don’t normally change his feed, but when I do, I introduce things VERY SLOWLY. Like painstakingly slow. I also mix his supplements with Omolene 200. Yup, it’s got yummy molasses in it and so he really likes it. I spritz the feed with a little water and then stir the supplement in so it sticks to the feed.

And again, I introduce it very slowly over weeks of time, until he’s up to the dose he is supposed to be on.

[SquishTheBunny]

Does he really need the suppliments? Might be worth it to switch to something like adequan instead of oral powders.

[touchstone]

Respectfully, maybe the answer is to stop feeding supplements. There’s very little evidence that they are going to help with joints. Why not save your money for more proven therapies that don’t require daily administration?

[PonyPenny]

I mix everything into Integrity Lite no molasses. Horse gets 1/2 small bucket on Integrity Lite and I add MSM, flax and a probiotic. I then add water to the top of the bucket and mix well. I let it sit until all the water is soaked in. Horse slurped it up. He will eat most anything though.

[FraggleRock]

It’s been 8 years, I’m sure OP has figured something out by now :winkgrin: