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shah
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 Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 4:06:44 PM
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Poor Mush came in with a large hemotoma on his belly yesterday. I had the vet out who gave him a jab of bute and told us to keep an eye on him but he should be fine with normal routine, i.e. turned out 24/7, and a dayly bute in his feed. As I'm away at the moment the girls on the yard are helping me look after him (typical.......) and apparently he was starting to colick today and he won't eat his dinner with bute in it. So they have called the vet again as poor Mush is apparently looking very sorry for himself.
As I'm in a different country I'm now panicking a bit. Is there anything we can do to get him eating his bute? He doesn't take treats from the hand, doesn't like molasses... Any ideas more than a daily vet visit and jab?
Also, anything else we can do?
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Honeyb060674
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United Kingdom
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 4:24:06 PM
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Pro biotic yogurt in a big syringe?
I had this problem with Honey..who won't touch ANYTHING with bute in (Ewww nasty people trying to poison her!) But she will eat jam butties & marmite butties..but its requires ALOT of filling and a severe coating of stickiness up the arm  |
      
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brighe
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England
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 4:28:40 PM
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Ask the vet to prescribe Danilon which is a more palatable form of bute. Otherwise use a large syringe with apple sauce or syrup to syringe the bute down. If this all fails there is also Equipalazone (bute) paste available from the vet. Hope this helps.
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geegee
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England
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 5:24:46 PM
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I mix bute with water and put it in a large syringe and down it goes!
My boy smells it a mile off, even if it's mixed with "nice" stuff. I don't even try to disguise it now. Just get it down as swiftly and painlessly as possible 
I hope your boy is feeling better soon.
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LIV
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England
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 9:06:56 PM
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| I found yoghurt worked really well in a big syringe like Honeyb. |
     
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garnet
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Posted - 24 Dec 2009 : 11:33:33 PM
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| I have to mix bute to a paste with icing sugar and syringe it down her majesty (cut the end off the syringe so a stiffish paste can get through easily) but have recently found that she will take Danilon in her feed. Best of luck - they are such a worry when they won't be helped. |
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Lori
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Posted - 25 Dec 2009 : 11:35:58 AM
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I usually put bute in a feed with a little bran and molasses mixed with warm water, smells lovely and goes down a treat.  |
     
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krb
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England
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Posted - 25 Dec 2009 : 8:19:17 PM
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Syringe and porrige oats or redibrek....and sugar to taste  |
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shah
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England
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Posted - 30 Dec 2009 : 09:19:45 AM
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Thanks for all your suggestions. We worked out that he wasn't eating at all on xmas eve, and started to colic, so we had to have the vet out again to jab with bute and something for the gut. Poor Mush was then really poorly and had to come in on boxrest overnight with only handful of hay. We suspect that the pain of the hematoma was quite bad so he was feeling really sorry for himself.
Luckily a night on boxrest with his best mate next door did the trick and he started eating his food again - with the bute in it!!! He's now back to normal again (phew, it was a rugby ball sized hematoma, the largest any of us on the yard had ever seen...Mush doesn't do things by half measures...) and it looks like I can start to exercise him again  |
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