My insulin resistant horse, who I have managed very well for a number of years is now going to be on two types of meds - SMZ (antibiotic) and sputolysin.
I am looking for a low/no sugar way of putting together containers with both and something else to make them palatable…this way, the barn owner can just dump them into his feed bucket. Any ideas?
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For my insulation resistant horse, I use a handful of soaked beet pulp. I also used to use those single serving cups of apple sauce without added sugar. I know there is natural sugar in them, but my mare did fine on them.
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I second beetpulp as well as unsweetened applesauce diluted with water. That’s what my IR guy gets
Sugar free apple sauce and a bunch of cinnamon to mask any smell.
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Those rare “insulation” resistant horses can sure turn their noses up at so much, hard to get them to take their medicine.
Ours loved apple/cinnamon fig Newtons, we made several little chunks out of one and gave him a couple clean ones, one with his Prascend pill and a clean chaser or two.
He never caught on there was a pill somewhere in that.
To the point, for other medications in feed, we would crumble some fig Newton, mix with a little water if a paste necessary, add medication and mix in the feed.
Seemed to work for us, but you need to be sure your horse is hooked on fig Newtons first.
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Ha ha! I just caught my typo 
It looks like autocorrect helped there. 
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