Well a shot in the hind quarters would most likely be an intramuscular (IM) injection. It is not recommended for an owner to ever give intravenous injections by themselves. You should either have a pre-filled syringe or you can do it yourself(read and follow directions on the bottle). Once that is taken care of, you should have someone hold the horse, never tie up a horse that's about to receive an injection in case they freak out and run for it. Rub down the area with alcohol and press it slightly with your hand to get the horse used to the pressure in that area. quickly and in a straight downward motion insert the needle and gently pull back on the plunger, if blood comes into the needle you've hit a vein and need to pull it out and retry. Once you get the right spot with no blood firmly push the plunger down and inject the liquid into the muscle. Rub the area for a minute or so to distribute the liquid and relax the horse.
I've seen this a lot at my vet clinic.
Yes but your vet can give them a shot so they can't get it.
You can give them the shot on the large muscle that runs down the neck or one of the large muscles on the horse's hindquarters. Always inject the strangles vaccine on the butt. It can make the horse's neck or face swell.
probably not much, but they need them either way
Horses are vaccinated with a tetanus toxoid that is marketed for use in horses.
No. On many occasions has a person survived a gunshot to the head. An example of this is the rapper 'Obie Trice'
always let the vet give your pet (in this case horse) a shot
Horses are not to be shot ! ! ! !
Your stroke allowance will still be 0 as three quarters of nothing is nothing.If your handicap was plus 1 then three quarters would be plus 1 and you would give one shot at the hole that is stroke index 18.
Generally some sweating does occur although it varies with the dose, the mare and where she is in her heat cycle.
Iron Horse by a long shot.
If you don't vaccinate your horse against Influenza, then he will be more at risk of contracting this highly contagious disease.