Need a tube of Bute...

...you can't pick it up from your vets? I'm confused.

 

Malta Veterinary or the vet in Maple Park would have it... Maybe even Bethany Vet, the large animal one is across the street but I don't know if they stock things like this there.

I've done the applesauce concoction in that big syringe, it's definitely a PITA!

 

Maple park vet is out

She drove to Byron today to get a tube..

 

Call Virgil Vet Clinic.

 

in a situation like that wouldn't it be possible to call Kendall Road Equine Hospital ?

Wouldn't that have been closer then Byron

Just wondering?

 

Will the horse eat applesauce? I've often bought those lunch pack single serving size applesauces and you just pop the pill in there, let it 'melt' overnight in the sauce, then mix it on their grain.

 

I keep a little electric coffee bean grinder in my feed room for grinding up pills.

Works great and once pulverized and mixed with some grain or soaked beet pulp they don't seem to avoid the med as much as trying to get a pill down their throat.

 

My horses will eat bread so that's a good way to get a regular pill into them too.

 

My horse is a walking garbage can and it is nice that he will lick the powdered bute right up...lol

 

I have always been told not to bute for an abscess. It takes away the inflammation needed to build in order for it to bust...... In other words you are prolonging the pain your horse is in by giving the bute.

 

No, it's antibiotics that will delay the abcess, not bute! By all means, give something for the pain.

 

Absess popped tonight...yeah!!!

 

Actually, I've found that bute does help my gelding with abcess pain. I've been dealing with a stubborn abcess with my gelding for 3 weeks (I'm 99% sure it's an abcess, because he is prone to them). I originally soaked for 4 days, and gave bute, and nada. I stopped the bute, and he was sound. Two weeks go by, and he's dead lame again. Can't find a painful spot with the hoof testers, but there is heat up in his coronet band. I dread the thought of soaking again, because of the cold weather. I'm afraid I'll have to.

 

Phenylbutazone is a non-selective, non-steroidal antiinflammatory drug which works for all pain, most notably orthopedic pain. It is also the most commonly prescribed pain reliever for foot abscesses.

 

Isnt it nice to have "our own" vet here on the forum!!! ty doc T :-*

 

If soaking is not something that can be done because of the weather, I highly reccommend Animalintex to help with something like this.

This stuff works so good.
Follow the directions. Soak in hot water. Wrap foot, pay attention to where you think the abcess is, keep the plastic side away from the foot. Wrap w/ vetwrap. I am telling you with in a day or so, your absess will have been brought to the surface.
You can cut it so you have the size you need.

If you do this, and there is still nothing after 4-6 days, there you have may have something else wrong.

I have done soaking and wrapping with animalintex and have great success with it.