Re: RC: swollowing electrolites

[DreamWeaver <karen@chaton.gardnerville.nv.us>]

>At 10:28 AM 6/26/99 -0400, The Craig/Haisz family wrote:
>I would appreciate some advice on how to get my horse to swollow his 
>syringed electrolites.  I
>
>I use 1/2 or 1/3 oz homemade electrilite mixed in strawberry yogurt in a 
>60 cc syringe.  He is not happy about my getting them on the back of his 
>tongue, but he lets me do it.  I hold his head up, so he does not spit 
>them out immediatly, and massage his throat.  But he can wait patiently 
>for over 5 minutes, they spit them out whenever I let his head down.


When you get the dose in the horses mouth, immediately walk him and keep 
his head up at the same time.  I learned to do that with mine when I worm 
them and it works really well.  Otherwise, they will keep the stuff in 
their mouth and drop it out later.

I have also found that depending upon which horse, I have to dose them 
depending upon the situation.  One I do before he drinks, makes him less 
pissy that way.  The other one I can do after he drinks.  The key is just 
knowing what is right for each one of them (and of course being sure ahead 
of time that the one is going to drink before I give him the syringe).

Once one of them gets food in his mouth (say at an hour hold), then I may 
as well forget it.  I won't even try dosing him until we are ready to leave 
again  -- to do so will just cause him to lose most of it (since his mouth 
has food in it already), and cause him to pout and get an attitude about 
the whole thing.


Happy Trails,

Karen
in NV
& Weaver, 2,880 miles
& Rocky, 1,595 :+)
www.greatbasin.net/~sportssaddle


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