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Member:
Chrism

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 2, 2004 - 6:37 pm:

My mare was on a course of bute as she was "off." My instructor taught me this trick:

Cut an apple in half.
Cut your bute tablets in half or quarters.
Poke the pieces of bute in each apple half and feed - by hand or in the feed bin.

Delicious apples work well as they are grainy and easy to poke the bute in.

Cheers.
Member:
Shirl

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 2, 2004 - 7:04 pm:

Hi Christine, neat idea. I also use a small chunk of carrot, ream it out with the end of a potato peeler and slip the pill in. Works great.
Shirl
Member:
Miamoo

Posted on Thursday, Jun 3, 2004 - 8:59 am:

I have taken to buying apple flavored bute from my vet. It is a powder and my horses all like it and have no problem eating it off their grain. I am thrilled to no longer be messing with the big pills!

Ella
Member:
9193

Posted on Thursday, Jun 3, 2004 - 10:25 am:

I tried the bute hidden in an apple or carrot trick too. It worked...ONCE! After that- never fooled him again.

I am in Ella's camp. I got the apple flavored bute and mixed with his favorite equine senior, added his supplement and a gurgle of oil to make it stick and my boy has been taking his daily dose of bute for the last four weeks with no hassle!

It was nice to tell the pills by-by..

Smiles,
Debra
Member:
Cowgrl

Posted on Thursday, Jun 3, 2004 - 12:38 pm:

Apple flavored Bute - I'm on my way to get some!
Member:
Suzeb

Posted on Thursday, Jun 3, 2004 - 3:01 pm:

For those that have pills or plain powdered stuff. You could try a little Cherry flavoured gelatin powder mixed in. Add a little water if neccesary and put in with some feed. The pills might have to be ground first. Banana flavoured pudding might work also.
I am very lucky that my gelding will eat anything so I cannot really relate to problems of giving Bute. Deworming paste is a different story.
He used to get Cherry flavoured powder and now he has the Apple flavoured powder.
Like Mary Poppins used to sing "A spoonful of suger will help the medicine go down"

Cheers,
Susan B.
Member:
Cwilson

Posted on Thursday, Jun 3, 2004 - 3:09 pm:

I just grind the whole bottle of bute in a coffee grinder, put it back in the bottle and measure out 1 gram. I put it in his feed and he never leaves any of it in the bucket. This has been the easiest way for me to get him to take the bute and I have tried everything!
Have a good day
Chris
New Member:
Zane

Posted on Sunday, Jun 6, 2004 - 1:13 am:

"Bute Bomb" is what my wife calls the concoction she uses for our finicky boy. She takes peppermint treats and starlight mints and puts them through the coffee grinder. Add a gram of bute and your good to go. Word of warning mix with bute later or keep out of the dogs reach. Our lab ate four "bombs". She wet her bed for three days and seemed to feel no pain but was fine. Her bloodwork came back fine and we now mix the bute when we are going to administer it.
Member:
Longride

Posted on Thursday, Jan 27, 2005 - 6:46 pm:

No one believes how I give pills, including bute. I tried grinding them up, mixing it with various concoctions, the whole nine yards. Then one day one of my boarders asked me to medicate her horse while she was out of town. "Just DrOp them whole in his feed" she said. I didn't believe her until I tried it. With bute I break the tablets into quarters. The trick is NOT to have any powder. Like my blood pressure pills, there is no taste until they disolve, and by that time it's too late for the horse to spit them out. I use a small bucket held by hand if the horse tends to scatter their food and this method has been sucessful with horses who routinely refused bute before. To date it has worked with every horse and no I have not had any hold the pills in their cheek and spit them out later.

Barbara
Member:
moser

Posted on Thursday, Nov 15, 2007 - 1:06 am:

They also make apple bute paste now. I dissolve my pills in water, and add molasses, and then mix with their supplements. That works really well also.

Moser
Member:
122756

Posted on Thursday, Nov 15, 2007 - 4:32 pm:

I have been able to get alfalfa flavored bute powder through my Vet....I don't know the brand off hand, but will check and let you all know. Works like a charm with my mare, who loves alfalfa!
Member:
cspanhel

Posted on Friday, Nov 16, 2007 - 11:16 pm:

Wedgewood Pharmacy (wedgewoodpharmacy.com) makes bute powder in a few flavors, and even my most suspicious mare will eat the peppermint flavored bute. cynthia
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