I now have 2 horses with diarrhea and fecal water. They are on Equiotic and get timothy hay. I bought
BioSponge but it smells awful (to me) and when I add it to their senior feed, the won’t eat anything. Anyone have any suggestions as to how to feed BioSponge?
Mary in the NY north county
I gave it via syringe, but it was only for 3 days.
I’ve also syringed, mixing with an applesauce slurry (watered down applesauce). Best way to be sure it got in them.
I’ve also syringed it. Mixed it with fruit juice.
I did a syringe and mixed with apple sauce. It didn’t really help my guy so I stopped giving it but man it sucked he would quit taking the apple sauce so did fruit juice, a carrot mixture everything it was awful and this was my eat anything horse. finally watered it down with gatorade and he drank it.
I am feeling lucky mine just ate it.
Can yours have molasses? Maybe adding some molasses will overpower their dislike?
I have also had great luck with crushed peppermints added to inedible things making the edible.
I used the paste version instead.
I sprinkled it on the food and added a bit of water --stirred. Horse ate it.
Thanks for all the suggestions. My gelding is not easy to deworm as he hates when you come towards him with a syringe. So I tried giving it to him by making a gooey mess with the BioSponge, alfalfa/timothy cubes, peppermint treats, carrots and apples. Soaked in warm water till it didn’t look the color of the BioSponge and didn’t smell too bad. When I left the barn, he was eating it so fingers crossed. Only gave him half a scoop so tomorrow will try the same with a full scoop - - that is, if he finished eating it tonight.
I read a lot of posts on this forum about diarrhea and one of the suggestions was diagel. I ordered some and will try that on my mare. Something has to work as I’m not happy trying to clean their butts and legs in the winter.
Mary in NY north country
You were very lucky. The smell would drive my horses away.
Mary
Yes I tried the peppermints and it seems to have helped.
I wet the grain and biosponge, threw in some shredded carrots or treats if he was being picky.
I just mixed it in my mare’s mash and she ate it. Hope you find a way to get your horse to eat it 
My one old mare is mad for banana yogurt; when she needed to be dosed with BioSponge for a few days, I mixed it in with some yogurt and then stirred that into her senior feed mash. She can usually sniff out medication a mile away, but in this case, she wanted the yogurt badly enough that she snarfed it right down.
My older gelding had fecal water all of a sudden a month or two ago. I read something somewhere about Daily Gold. He has been on it for a few weeks and it seems to be helping.
Just wanted to suggest it in case the BioSponge doesn’t work.
I had success with Relyne GI for similar problems. My horse also wouldn’t eat the biosponge after a few days. The Relyne is a clear gel - doesn’t seem to have any real smell/taste.
Thanks for that suggestion as well as the suggestion of Relyne by ghst12. I will look into both.
I just got the diagel and tried it tonight. I’ll give it 2 more days and see if it helps. I’ve still got him on the equiotic.
Mary in the north country of NY
Make it in some beer pulp or fiber max! I had to give it to my guy all the time and later on found out it was the timmothy/alfalfa causing the diarrhea!
or try apple suace! Also look into maybe a probiotic, I have my horse on the equine choice pre and pro biotic! Hope this helps!
I mix it with molasses or I get it in paste form.
Dose it orally in times of GI distress …otherwise you can feed Platinum Performance GI formula which has bio sponge in it I believe ?? Just more palatable
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