suggestions for giving medication

[gumtree]

[QUOTE=Laurierace;8183973]
I have a coffee grinder but the prascend is like literally the size of half a tic tac, that is not possible to grind. I have been hiding it in stud muffins but he is on to me and now won’t even eat them without the pill in it. Today I took a handful of small peppermint treats and put the pill inside the handful, it took three tries but he finally ate it.mmluckily he is not IR.[/QUOTE]

I know how big the pill is. My point was just grind it up. With a lot of meds a coffee grinder works fine. With the smaller stuff I use a mortar and pestle. Or a hammer will work. I like to throw in some peppermints in the coffee grinder with the meds. Especially with the small ones. They grind and mix up just fine mix with water shake and use a “proper” dosing syringe. Not a “make shift” one out of a large plastic syringe or something of the like.

To each their own on this. If people have the time and want to “play games” hiding meds in something the horse will eat so be it. I don’t have the time nor do I want to risk the horse not getting the full dose of what is required.

Hold the horse’s head up, stick the dosing syringe in the back of their mouth, squeeze and “tickle” their tongue until they swallow. Done. I only use the “long nosed” dosers with a “ball” on the end and a “pistol trigger grip” on the plunger. Makes it much easier to use with an unruly horse.

[TullyMars]

Mine have never looked twice in a small chunk of carrot. I use the scissors and make a hole in carrot and shove it in. Hand the carrot over and it is gone. Piece of carrot I use is about 1-1.5" long and about as thick as my thumb. Never had an issue. Also give Ace tabs this way with one of my rehabs. Makes it easy.

[newhorsemommy]

Feeding the Prascend in a Fig Newton or other cookie sounds a lot easier to me than grinding the pill up and syringing it in. The Nicker Bait cookies with the soft center (the large ones) will even hide a Bute tablet sufficiently that both of my horses gobble it right down.

[Montanas_Girl]

(1) I’d use Prascend instead of the compounded pergolide. It is more stable and a smaller volume dose, and the cost difference really isn’t significant in the long run.

(2) Pergolide causes anorexia. When Montana first went on it, he wouldn’t eat ANYTHING other than grass. So, my angelic barn crew would open his mouth, shove the pill down his throat, then hold his mouth closed and wait for him to swallow. They were saints! Over time, he adjusted to the meds and is no longer such a pain. BUT, if we miss a dose? We start all over again. This could be happening with your girl if you aren’t consistent in getting her to eat her dose of medicine.

(3) One or two peppermints or a handful of beet pulp isn’t going to make a bit of difference in an IR horse’s diet, no matter how severely IR that horse is. Use whatever it takes to get her to eat the pill. For Montana, a handful of Triple Crown Senior works pretty well, but since that is the only “grain” he gets every day, he’s desperate for a “treat”.

[gumtree]

[QUOTE=newhorsemommy;8188005]
Feeding the Prascend in a Fig Newton or other cookie sounds a lot easier to me than grinding the pill up and syringing it in. The Nicker Bait cookies with the soft center (the large ones) will even hide a Bute tablet sufficiently that both of my horses gobble it right down.[/QUOTE]

My clients don’t pay me to take chances. It only takes a matter of minutes to grind load and shoot. No worries about if the part of the Fig-Newton that fell out of the horse’s mouth had the pill in it or not. And no time wasted looking through the bedding to find it and check.

Not trying to be snarky I just don’t believe in taking “short cuts”. Doing things right with horses can be and is time consuming at times.

As I said in my first comment; to each their own.

[gumtree]

[QUOTE=newhorsemommy;8188005]
Feeding the Prascend in a Fig Newton or other cookie sounds a lot easier to me than grinding the pill up and syringing it in. The Nicker Bait cookies with the soft center (the large ones) will even hide a Bute tablet sufficiently that both of my horses gobble it right down.[/QUOTE]

My clients don’t pay me to take chances. It only takes a matter of minutes to grind load and shoot. No worries about if the part of the Fig-Newton that fell out of the horse’s mouth had the pill in it or not. And no time wasted looking through the bedding to find it and check.

Not trying to be snarky I just don’t believe in taking “short cuts”. Doing things right with horses can be and is time consuming.

As I said in my first comment; to each their own.

[Calamber]

It dissolves so easily (at least the type that I had to use) that I would see no need to grind it.