Re: RC: pill grinder

[BMcCrary27@aol.com]

In a message dated 07/11/2000 2:42:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
guest@endurance.net writes:

<< I have been using the "old pedestal and mortar" way but the ground up bute 
sticks in the grooves. Uf anyone has any suggestions please let me know >>

In some of the livestock and equine vet supply catalogs, there is a small 
plastic device made especially for grinding pills.  I have one and it works 
fairly well.  Tribrycin, for instance, dissolves very well in hot water.  I 
add just enough water to make a thick paste, then add a tablespoon or so of 
feed grade molasses to the paste.  For some peculiar reason, the molasses 
causes the paste to liquify.  Then I pour the stuff into a dose syringe and 
squirt it into the horse's mouth.  Works fine.  Bute, I think, does not 
dissolve as well, so I grind it up and mix it with molasses to make it more 
palatable.

Barbara