Diet for gastric ulcer prone horse

[jose]

Hi all, haven't been on for a while....am looking for recommendations on diets / supplements for my mare who suffers with gastric ulcers. She was originally diagnosed Nov 07 and treated with a course of gastroguard, afterwards all was ok for 3 months before she started showing similar symptons (increased wind sucking / colicking) so had another course of gastroguard. I then put her on U-Guard supplement and Winergy Equilibrium (she also gets Topspec Calmer in case of any stressful situation) on which she's been ok till now but is beginning to show signs that the ulcers have returned (she's had 4 mild colic attacks in last month). Vet recommends another course of gastroguard to get rid of them, however I really need to find something that is going to stop them for good! She has access for forage 24/7 (either grass / hay) and is only in light work so can't understand why she keeps getting them....HELP!

[chestnuttymare]

Brooke windsucks but has never shown signs of ulcers, i still give her a wee scoop of naf mint in her dinner. It might help. Mint is good for digestion.

[liberationsquare]

Piggy has been gfetting worse with his windsucking but is showing no signs of gastric ulcers. He gets a bit mint in his tea to. Try it and see. lots of mixes and ahrd feed dont help....if you feed this have a look and see what you can cut out,

[eyesdontlie]

chianti used to crib bite for scotland but it did improve when I changed his diet he was fed on alfa a oil and allen and page sustain as he was in hard work he also got fed gastro gaurd from nutri science he was never diagnosed with ulcers but I know that they can be linked to crib biting and with this diet and ad lib hay he hardly used to crib bite at all and never seemed to get stressy about it either.

the diet I have eyes on would also be good as it is high fibre and he looks fantastic on it he is fed hi fi top spec feed balancer and top spec fibre plus cubes.

I did try loads of supplements 0n chianti I even fed him ginger!! but that nutri science ones seemed to make the biggest difference as long as the feed is as low in starch as you can get that is why allen and page is very good.

[pippi]

Sorry not much use, but someone on another website advised of an anti acid in the feed everynight for windsuckers (my friends horse did for britain hence I paid attention!I do believe it works!). We have a shetland on our yard who has a serious gastric ulcer brought on by sweet itch in the summer and separation anxiety in the winter. Answer? My shetland. Paired them up and no more gastroguard which she was more on than off!!
She just needs a companion stabled and out that she is with 24/7 and I have heard a goat will do the same job? Im an old thing though, I still feed straights and think a white girth looks cool! If I could just get a hold of the flappy over reach boots.....

[bingbong]

Jan 9, 2009 0:51:31 GMT 1 pippi said:

Im an old thing though, I still feed straights and think a white girth looks cool! If I could just get a hold of the flappy over reach boots.....

ahhh aha ha ahahahahahahahahaha!!!
i remember those days

i think i might still have the flippy flappy over reach boots and i laughed at the thought of grace with a white girth - oh the shame

[pippi]

Aye could be worse though could be a white string girth!!

[bingbong]

[jose]

Thanks guys....have tried feeding mint before...made not a jot of difference . Will have a look into the Nutri Science stuff though thanks eyesdontlie...not heard of that one before
x

[getatem]

i used to use the supplement from nutri science with my mare that i sadly lost , it was amazing and worked wonders it used to be called gastro care then i think its prob the same stuff though , i use pink powder with buzz which seems to help with his digestion xx

[misstickle]

Lots of fibre helps. may be worth looking at something like simple systems

This website may help www.equinegastriculcers.co.uk/which_horses.html