That is kind of them. Hope, hope, hope it does not come to that. Best of luck for you and Odie.
6 Likes
Chewy makes a compounded formula that taste like molasses. They also make a liquid marshmallow flavor. My pony nickers for it. You do have to play with the dose, but it must taste better cause my picky pony licks it out of my hand.
It’s so much cheaper that the pills and ponies numbers come out same as on pill.
https://www.chewy.com/pergolide-compounded-powder-horses/dp/398097
2 Likes
What med are you referring to tho?
Pergolide compounded prascend in three flavors ( spell check keeps changing it, fingers crossed edit worked)
They make cyproheptadine in apple flavoring.
2 Likes
Our mare gets it bolused. Our old pony got it the same way for five years. Cheap little plastic goat bolus fits the pill perfectly. I pop it in the back of their throat and no drama. I haltered them the first week, then they accepted it with just a hand on their nose. So much easier and less feed refusal.
What do you use?
Maybe you’ll get lucky, there’s a mare that belongs to a friend of my BO, she just eats the pill in her grain. No fuss no muss.
Go figure.
1 Like
I use Prescend, but I’m going to look into the other option to save money. The Prescend pill fits nicely in the goat bolus.
1 Like
Got the cypro from the vet today, it’s a powder. Boo. Unexpected. I handfeed them right now, so I’ll hafta figure out how to do small amounts of food with the powder without making Argie suspicious and also not have little buckets knocking around…
Would pills be easier? It’s pretty cheap from the people pharmacy with GoodRx.
Hugely. My vet is checking. But she gave me a tub of cypro to try for free, I think the client it was for died.
Free is nice!!
Maybe those horsey pill pockets would work? What do they call them, um… Oh here we go. These things.
Well that was easy 
One day delivery too
2 Likes
I hope they work! (Isn’t Amazon great 
)
1 Like
Okay tried it last night. Argie, being part cat 
, was suspicious and wouldn’t eat from hand because the food was now wet.
Putting it on the floor was no problem tho so guess I’ll be getting some little feed pans now. Who want to lay bets how long until they are whacking each other them?
Odie, no such qualms
VID_20250403_190808_695
8 Likes
I’m very late to this thread. Just wanted to say that my friend’s 23-yr-old Arabian gelding had the surgery for EORTH. It went really well. He started eating well after the surgery. The vet said he was having a lot of pain before, so the comparably minor discomfort after the surgery probably seemed like an immediate relief to him.
Jingles for cute little Odie.
1 Like
That’s a Sucker Bet 
I have to take the pans I feed from out of the stalls after they make All Gone or they become frisbees 
& I have to hunt them down in the pastures.
My horse helpfully “hands” me his empty pan.
If I’m not there when it’s offered, he tosses it into the aisle.
I leave stall doors unlatched when they’re eating & he’ll nose his open to make the throw.
ROOM SERVICE!
18 Likes
Hahahahhaha how funny! That little white nose comimg into the aisle ringing for service tho 
1 Like
So does cypro cause the same “veil” and general NQRness that prascend can? Argie has been very bleh the last day or so, and both have been laying down a lot more than usual the last two days and they are leaving hay behind yesterday and today. Maybe @JB can answer, I know she generally has the all the answers sometimes… I just caught Argie laying down in the sprinkle, not colicy but just seems to be yucky feeling. He did not want the breakfast with cypro either, grudgingly ate it and didn’t really finish it. Same as he did with the prascend a few years back when we gave that a shot 
Maybe back off a couple days or a week and start back up with a smaller dose? It was nearly impossible to go with a smaller dose on the prascend tablets since I was already using a pill cutter to cut them into wee bits.
Sigh.
Get a donkey they said, they are nearly bullet proof they said…
ETA: I didn’t find it my vet’s online pharmacy but did find it online as a tablet, so that will make life easier on THAT front anyway…
1 Like
