Oxbow joint support

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Some Oxbow joint support tablets arrived in the post today for Toffee - she's over 7 now and although she's on metacam we wanted a bit of something extra to help.
Except she won't eat them 😂 Any feeding tips for them? Her appetite is good so I don't really want to force feed her!
 
Merrypigs Sanctuary said:
Some Oxbow joint support tablets arrived in the post today for Toffee - she's over 7 now and although she's on metacam we wanted a bit of something extra to help.
Except she won't eat them 😂 Any feeding tips for them? Her appetite is good so I don't really want to force feed her!
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Yep. Grind it with a mortar and pessel. Mix it in with critical care. I tried making those oxbow joint supports into a paste like critical care, but it does not work.

Typically my old boar who was 7 needed them for his arthiritis, but wouldnt eat them. My fighting fit pig dot would eat them :hb:
 
What i did was make the critical care, pack it into a.15ml syringe . Squirt it back out, then mix the ground oxbow biscuit into that 15ml of critical care with my fingers, It goes sticky though and messy. And also alot of people hate 15ml syringes. But i like them
 
I find you have to introduce them slowly. Try softening half of the tablet with water and mashing it up into a paste and smear it onto a bit of pepper or lettuce and this helps them get used to the taste. Toffee might eat around the tablet at first but if you keep doing this daily, she should get used to the taste and will be able to eat it normally then. I find it takes a few days for them to get used to Oxbow tablets, then they start going crazy for them.
 
Lily & Rose said:
I find you have to introduce them slowly. Try softening half of the tablet with water and mashing it up into a paste and smear it onto a bit of pepper or lettuce and this helps them get used to the taste. Toffee might eat around the tablet at first but if you keep doing this daily, she should get used to the taste and will be able to eat it normally then. I find it takes a few days for them to get used to Oxbow tablets, then they start going crazy for them.
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I wish i tried this arghhhh:hb: this is a much better method
 
Thanks for the tip on how to feed these. I want to try them for Hamish but he has dental issues and they’re too hard. I’ll try mixing a ground-up version with CC 🙂.
When I bought them, I also got some Burgess parsley biscuits to fool Hamish’s cagemate that he was having the same. He was not fooled and wanted Hamish’s special biscuit 😂
 
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