Regarding the Horses in our lives...

[casportpony]

 

 

He did not eat the whole bag, just a couple drinking cup's worth. So... I take it you have tasted flock raiser haha that gives me a smile and also sparks a curiosity in me to try it lol!

LOL...  I taste everything if I can...  unless its got bugs ....  From Alfafla and molassis to scratch.... 


I have also tasted Bute... and the medicine I had to give my son....  I dont want any surprises....  and when my son was little I didnt want to lie to him about the taste...or could hedge my bets and mix it with something he did like.


The other meds for horses I dont taste but smell it good....  Ivermectin paste has an apple smell to it...  My goats used to mug me for it...  One small tube can worm about four Nigerian Dwarfs...


deb

Be very careful with bute as it can cause aplastic anemia in humans.


-Kathy

I know Kathy....  but the amount was only the size of the head of a pin,....  Like I said taste...  And for what its worth  I looked it up first

http://www.medicinenet.com/phenylbutazone/article.htm

Its an NSAID and it comes with all the cautions NSAIDs have....  and No its not available in the US any more for human prescription because they have better things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylbutazone

After reading that.... I dont even want to keep it around for my horse.

Back when my mare was down with a mysterious fever....  The boarding stable called me and told me they had called the VET...  I dropped everything and went right out.  The vet had already treated her with Banamine... 

I asked him why Banamine.  His answer was it does a better job of with fevers and pain than Bute...   She was up asking me where her treat bucket was within about fifteen minutes... 

So now up at the house I have a tube of each.  Um er two tubes of each...  for her use.... LOL. 

deb

Okay, glad you didn' try too much.

I keep a jar of brute and a bottle of injectable banamine on hand to be prepared for the odd lameness or mild colic.

-Kathy

 

[perchie.girl]

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I am comfortable with doing injectables on my own.... besides at the house I have no refrigerator... Katee is easy to give tube meds to... The shelf life of Banamine and Bute in tubes without refrigeration is very long.

Oh I can give a shot... but only intramuscular.... But after having gone to a lecture on it I am hesitant even doing that... hearing about the issues a poorly done shot can cause.... So I know how and have done it... but would rather have someone else do it.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote: LOL love those fly masks. the slit in the middle is to pull the forelock through... and the only reason My Katee cant get hers off. love the closure at the chin.

And One day I had some visitors from the city... They were visiting their goats. I had adopted four City raised goats from a military family. They asked me why I had a blindfold on my horse.....

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I have a friend in Maryland that buys the fly masks that have printed eyes or Sunglasses on them. What a Hoot.

deb

 

[TheDrake]

Lol that would be so funny, I want ones with sunglasses on them! And yeah that was the first time I put it on, since then I have figured out and pulled their forelock or "bangs" out as I call it haha.

 

[casportpony]

I am comfortable with doing injectables on my own.... besides at the house I have no refrigerator... Katee is easy to give tube meds to... The shelf life of Banamine and Bute in tubes without refrigeration is very long.

Oh I can give a shot... but only intramuscular.... But after having gone to a lecture on it I am hesitant even doing that... hearing about the issues a poorly done shot can cause.... So I know how and have done it... but would rather have someone else do it.

deb

I'm also comfortable giving shots, even IV shots, so per my vet, I give the banamine IV instead of IM. what I really want to learn is how to draw blood from chickens.

-Kathy

 

[seminolewind]

Lol that would be so funny, I want ones with sunglasses on them! And yeah that was the first time I put it on, since then I have figured out and pulled their forelock or "bangs" out as I call it haha.

Mine ends up losing hers every night. So I don't bother anymore. She used to lose halters that way, but she's at a place now that does not keep the halters on the horses in the pasture.

I did some reading on bute years ago. They stopped giving it to people because it causes liver damage. How ever, in horses , they mostly don't live long enough to suffer it . They also continued to give it to really old people for arthritis because it worked so well. I don't know what they do now, as this was quite a few years ago.

 

[casportpony]

Morons at the race track take but for aches and pains.

-Kathy

 

[perchie.girl]

Morons at the race track take but for aches and pains.

-Kathy

LOL... it was originally prescribed for Arthritis but it does all the same things that Ibuprophin does...

Hey I was taking my horses Corta-flx with Hyluronic acid for my Arthritis.... just figured out the weight ratio for me and went for it. Tastes like rootbeer syrup... and it worked. Actually worked better than the stuff I eventually got at the healthfood store.

At the time their website had human forumulations for it... I dont see it now. But I read the ingredients in both and they were very very similar.

A quart of the horse stuff costs a fraction of what the healthfood store charges for a fancy bottle

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

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Oh I can give a shot... but only intramuscular.... But after having gone to a lecture on it I am hesitant even doing that... hearing about the issues a poorly done shot can cause.... So I know how and have done it... but would rather have someone else do it.

deb

I'm also comfortable giving shots, even IV shots, so per my vet, I give the banamine IV instead of IM. what I really want to learn is how to draw blood from chickens.

-Kathy

LOL... that original sentince should have read " I am NOT comfortable...." sorry.

deb

 

[casportpony]

Quote:

Oh I can give a shot... but only intramuscular.... But after having gone to a lecture on it I am hesitant even doing that... hearing about the issues a poorly done shot can cause.... So I know how and have done it... but would rather have someone else do it.

deb

I'm also comfortable giving shots, even IV shots, so per my vet, I give the banamine IV instead of IM. what I really want to learn is how to draw blood from chickens.

-Kathy

LOL... that original sentince should have read " I am NOT comfortable...." sorry.

deb
Lol, I guess I just like doing that sort of "stuff".

Seriously, It's quite a relief to give an IV shot of banamine to a horse and see improvement in just a few minutes, Definitely a skill that I'm glad to have, though I don't always hit the vein on my first try.

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-Kathy