Oral Baytril has a very bitter taste which rabbits don't usually like. Here are some recipes which will make the drug more palatable:

1. Cherry Compounding Recipe - courtesy of Linda Eisert


Ingredients:

28 Tablets of 60 mg Baytril
28 ml glycerine
160 ml sugar-free cherry syrup

Directions:


Using a razor, shave the purple/pink coating off the tablets or crush the tablets and use tweezers to remove the coating. Mix the powder with glycerine and syrup (available from a pharmacy). Shake well prior to each use. Refrigerate. Good for 3 to 6 months. Should be a pink color. If dark purple, throw out. Concentration is 10 mg/ml.

2. Tasty Baytril Mash - BenBun's Seal of Approval - courtesy of Sharon Lloyd

Mix uncoated Baytril, crushed into powder using the back of a spoon, with 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon of baby food (peaches, bananas, sweet potatoes, or your bunny's favorite). The less food you use means the less mix you will have to get into the bunny! All of these are wet enough to get easily into a feeding syringe and, yup, we managed to get almost all of it into that tiny, lovely mouth, despite Ben's amazing ability to "Just say no!" to meds.

3. Baytril Colada - courtesy of Jackie Smith-Burns

My vet mixes Baytril with Pina Colada mix (sans rum :-). You can do any meds with it. Very, very sweet. I had a gp suck it from the feeding syringe.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Always ask your veterinarian before administering a drug to your rabbit.