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Can I mix Baytril with something?
- Thread starter Snowberry
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Fellie
Warren Veteran
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Sheldon thought all his Christmas's had come at once - getting banana TWICE a day no less - little did the imp know that we were giving him medicine.
As Mary Poppin says - "a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down"
I mix it with apple juice so I'm sure pineapple juice would be fine. However mixing it with juice doesn't seem to make it yummy - just tolerable, so you might still find he won't take it straight from the syringe. I wish you could mix it with metacam as metacam seems to be like sweets for my two!
elmoandfern
Mama Doe
I mix it in the syringe with Ella's kitchen
Apple is on baytril and metacam at the moment so I give her the baytril first and the metacam straight after (hope there is no reason why I shouldn't be doing that). She seems OK with that. If I just have to give baytril, I mix it with a small amount of Ribena (or supermarked own brand equivalent).
I mix with strong juices - pineapple should be good but if not carrot is always a winner here. Make sure they are pure juices (not 'juice drinks') with nothing added and not a 'no added sugar' type, as they contain sweeteners etc which aren't good.
Failing that, I have found that Critical Care masks the taste of any medication. Toast is a less healthy alternative but that can work too, but make sure you don't burn the toast as you don't want to feed carbon with meds. I've also used weetabix and oats, as they absorb the meds quickly.
Failing that, I have found that Critical Care masks the taste of any medication. Toast is a less healthy alternative but that can work too, but make sure you don't burn the toast as you don't want to feed carbon with meds. I've also used weetabix and oats, as they absorb the meds quickly.
Snowberry
Wise Old Thumper
Well I have tried everything and Strawbs is now on hunger strike refusing to eat anything at all other than grass!
Am going to have to get hubbie to pick him up and put it directly into his mouth when he is home from work but I wanted to avoid this as he hates being picked up.
Am going to have to get hubbie to pick him up and put it directly into his mouth when he is home from work but I wanted to avoid this as he hates being picked up.
Snowberry
Wise Old Thumper
He is refusing to eat banana at the minute as e knows I am trying to hide something!
He only wants grass and he doesn't want me to pick it for him- he wants to eat it direct from the garden.
