Of these choices, which form do you prefer to have around if you can only pick one?
Powder
Tablets
Paste
Flavored powder. Can be added to food or syringed with some water. Hate bute paste with a passion. 
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Flavored powder. Never had a problem with its consumption.
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Yup, powder!
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Same!
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Powder
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I do the paste. That way I know it gets consumed.
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Flavored powder, by far! Thereâs a citrus-flavored powder thatâs widely available that Iâve found most horses readily eat in their grain. My local vet clinic also makes a compound bute with various flavors. I gave my old guy the alfalfa-flavored version (put in his mash) while he was still alive, and he never knew the difference!
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Pills. Theyâre cheap. Some horses will eat them, either outright, or in a small handful of alfalfa pellets or some crushed peppermints.
If they wonât just eat them, they crush very easily into a slightly granular powder, and dissolve a bit more from there in a syringe with water. You can add a little flavoring there too if you like - cinnamon, orange Gatorade, whatever.
If itâs long-term, and you have a horse who will become homicidal if you stick One More Syringe in his mouth, then powder of some flavor
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Flavoured suspension. But I usually have powder on hand so that goes into a syringe with something tasty.
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Flavoured suspension (liquid bute).
But I like to have bute powder on hand. None of mine will eat it mixed in their food, but I usually keep a small bottle of omega alpha gastra-fx around that I can mix the powder with in a big syringe. They like the taste, and it isnât as messy as mixing up molasses or apple sauce.
I hate the bute paste! If the paste gets any colder than room temp it turns into the consistency of fondant or gum. Hard to push through the syringe and easy for the horses to spit out.
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Flavored powder (citrus) was the only powder my very, very picky mare readily ate in her grain.
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I have the paste and powder on hand.
I used to grind the pills but my vet had a big discount on the powder. The paste is easier to keep in my tack trunk when traveling.
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Iâd probably prefer something else, but since I have tablets on hand, I figured out how to get the pony to take them easily. Tried sneaking them in with a few mint antacid tablets but she cottoned on to that pretty quickly, so I now split the jelly spearmint leaves candies and stuff the pill inside and then wrap the edges of the candy around the edges of the pill. Split an extra candy in half and offer candyâcandy-candy/pill and no more trouble!
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Paste. It was the only way my picky late gelding would take it, though reluctantly at that. I really wish bute came in easier to administer forms like Equioxx. It definitely works better.
Compounded paste from Doc Lanes.
Specifically the Vanilla Butternut. 
Itâs sticky so they donât spit it out and it smells delicious.
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I always have both the powder and the liquid suspension on hand.
Some of my horses are so unpicky they will just eat their grain with the powder in it, no problem. But a couple of the others wonât, and I find the suspension easy to use, and they donât hate it.
Tablets. Iâve never had one that would eat the powder. Paste second for ones that have to get it by syringe but only if I canât just give Banamine or Equioxx instead. Bute paste is so hard to get out of the dang tube.
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Thatâs for sure!
I think it depends on the horse.
My late TB was much easier to dose with paste. My pony would rather flip like Shamu than let me give him a paste but will eat most anything in his bucket without much toppings EXCEPT peppermint flavored Bute paste 
