What do you do if your normally balanced performance pony starts behaving a little well, peculiar? Would you jump to the assumption that he’s getting a distended head, or would you try to give the problem deeper analysis?
Don’t jump to conclusions. If you find your horse all of a sudden doing things that aren’t normal for him, you may want to desist from dismissing it all as his attitude. You may want to get your vet over to do a bit of investigation.
Your pony may possibly be signalling equine ulcer symptoms to you.
Here is what should get you alert:
your horse refuses to jump
he plays up in the street smart way
he kicks at the trailer
he pins his ears back when you prepare to mount him
he bites or kicks as his girth is being tightened.
If more than one of those behavior patterns happen at the same time, don’t dismiss them as unrelated. Each one of them arise from equine ulcers. In recent times, gut and colon ulcers have been branded serious health treats by vets and animal health researchers. They can be of certain concern if they afflict performance horses and horses under coaching.
Ulcers are usually found among these classes of horses because of:
irregular high carbohydrate meals
irregular access to hay or pasture
loaded training sessions
high stress ways of living
over the top use of drugs, in particular the non-steroidal and anti inflammatory type.
When providing treatment for horses for ulcers, I like to give them pelleted senior horse feed. This feed is far easier to digest than grains. Also , I’ve found through long experience that bolstering feed with Simplexity Health and Stomach Soother, singly, both together and both or either with SUCCEED can be of great help.
I describe these products below.
Simplexity Health Products
These products are primarily based on powerful acidophilus, bifidus, enzymes, and blue green algae. When added as a supplement to pelleted senior feed, they’re extremely calming to the digestive system. They enable training horses with ulcer symptoms to stay in training without a degree of risk of unwarranted effects. Acidophilus and bifidus are probiotics that help heal stomach ulcerations; the enzymes help in simple digestion without aggravation. The blue-green algae boosts the process of healing while serving as an easily accessed power source extracted from the glycogen in the blue-green algae cell wall.
Stomach Soother
This product has been designed in particular to treat equine stomach ulcers and digestive distress. The product is a product of the tropical fruit natural papaya, local to Central America and Mexico. Papain, the active ingredient in papaya, is comparable to the digestive enzyme pepsin. It provokes appetite, calms esophagus and stomach membranes and quells bowel inflamation.
Papaya is also rich in essentials like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, iron, potassium, niacin, riboflavin, and thiamin. Ulcer formation can be absolutely forestalled with a dose of just two ounces twice each day. Horses with ulcer symptoms experience a calming effect after papaya intake. This product has a long shelf life if it is refrigerated once the container is opened. The maker of this product is working on small containers with contents adequate for one day’s dose, to help out those that do not have access to chillers handy.
SUCCEED
SUCCEED is an organic product with polar lipid-rich oat oil and flour of oat, rich in fiber soluble in beta-glucan, extraction of yeast, and L-Threonine as well as L-Glutamine, the amino acids. Polar lipids, which are water-soluble fats, considerably aid bloodstream absorption of nutrient elements and sustain healthy tummy linings. Digestion rate is improved by soluble oat fiber. Standard volumes of digestive microbes are sustained in the intestine by yeast extract. The amino acids L-Glutamine and L-Threonine make a contribution to the healthiness of digestive tract mucous lining.
SUCCEED is available in paste form to enable each day administration to horses that are off feed, a positive indication of equine ulcers. SUCCEED is also available in granule form that serves as feed supplement, to be added once or twice daily.
I have found SUCCEED to be positively great for horses subjected to ulcers in the bowel. Most pony owners have discovered that combining SUCCEED and Stomach Soother gives the best results.
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