The wild one started to calm down considerably, and is no longer wall-eyed and scary. The drawback is that her frightened temperament has now lodged in her formerly mild sister. But by now everybody is just about well. Last Sunday, though, we had to give the girls one last dose of antibiotic. By that time we had shifted to oral antibiotic, since the horses cut such a fit about shots.
Oral administration is easy.
First you dissolve eight big pills in a 35 cc syringe full of water, then pinch off the plastic nipple with a pair of Visegrips, channel locks, or a neutron bomb. Next somebody grabs the horse, while the administrator stands at the horse s head with the horse to his left. With his left hand he reaches up and forces his thumb into the gap between the horse s front and back teeth. Then gently cram the syringe over your thumb into the horse s mouth on top of his tongue. Now begin to press down the plunger, and discover half way down that, kept too long, i.e., more than three nanoseconds, antibiotic pills set like concrete.