Feed for ulcers ?

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Just wondering what feed you would normally give to an ulcer prone horse? He is in full work and needs something slightly heating too if possible?
 
Anything with less than 8% starch. Personally I feed Saracen releve mix and cubes as 14% protein with the cubes and 8% or lower starch. Perfect for what I want with eventers.
I then combine this with speedibeet for the pectins. I like top spec ulca cubes as well. I tend to feed them in the summer and spring when grass is doing a good job and they need less hard feed.
Chaff is fed before riding and travelling and I have a large tub of limestone flour, brewers yeast and Gastric Comfort. The Limestone flour is fed daily along with the brewers yeast. The gastric comfort is fed when travelling, staying away or strenuous ridden work. I also have a supply of GG and dose half a tube before long journeys. I have actually done a spreadsheet as I am a nerdy saddo. I need to check it though.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/18uT...Stf7uK/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msexcel
 
I would also recommend trying aloe juice. I have this on my radar as well as trying some L-Glutamine after reading another thread which suggested it. I am also trying a different balancer with Theornine in it which supposedly helps with the creation of stomach mucus.

Would also suggest ensuring access to forage as much as possible.
 
I rate Allen & Page Soothe and Gain as a feed although don’t use it currently. It may be too conditioning for what you want though. I feed mine Aloe vera in every feed.
 
LEC said:
Anything with less than 8% starch. Personally I feed Saracen releve mix and cubes as 14% protein with the cubes and 8% or lower starch. Perfect for what I want with eventers.
I then combine this with speedibeet for the pectins. I like top spec ulca cubes as well. I tend to feed them in the summer and spring when grass is doing a good job and they need less hard feed.
Chaff is fed before riding and travelling and I have a large tub of limestone flour, brewers yeast and Gastric Comfort. The Limestone flour is fed daily along with the brewers yeast. The gastric comfort is fed when travelling, staying away or strenuous ridden work. I also have a supply of GG and dose half a tube before long journeys. I have actually done a spreadsheet as I am a nerdy saddo. I need to check it though.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/18uT...Stf7uK/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=msexcel
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Would speedi beet be similar to pink mash? I have a bag of that in the tack room currently. And definitely not a nerdy saddo! Just very well organised!!!
 
lynz88 said:
I would also recommend trying aloe juice. I have this on my radar as well as trying some L-Glutamine after reading another thread which suggested it. I am also trying a different balancer with Theornine in it which supposedly helps with the creation of stomach mucus.

Would also suggest ensuring access to forage as much as possible.
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How do you give them the aloe juice and how much? Just mix it into feed or mash?
 
I work in a feed store and keyflow sensicare is popular for ulcer prone horses but I don’t use it myself so not first hand account. We don’t stock it here but get it in especially for customers so it’s not like we push the product. Most buy pink mash too that use the sensicare.
 
Flying_Form said:
Oh gosh I thought alfalfa was okay for ulcers! Thank you for telling me this ??‍♀️
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Alfalfa seems to have gone very out of fashion at the moment, I think there are some horses who don't get on with it and get very 'hot'/ excitable on it and there was a line of thought that as a chaff it was quite spiky and so might not be so good for their stomachs. However it is the same as sugarbeet and has pectins in so is still good for their stomachs. You'll know if it suits your horse or not and can also see if you think the chaff is too spiky - it is possible to get alfalfa nuts or I think its fibrebeet that is a mix of alfalfa and sugarbeet.

Personally, if I had a horse that did ok on alfalfa and needed a bit more condition then I would still feed it.

I think there are mixed opinions on the pink mash, some people seem to really rate it, others have concerns about it being primarily made up of soya hulls.
 
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