Flying_Form
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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?
Feed for ulcers ?
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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 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
Barton Bounty
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I recommend a no soya, no alfalfa, no cereal diet 
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lynz88
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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.
Would also suggest ensuring access to forage as much as possible.
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Aloe juice works for me too ?
meleeka
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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.
Flying_Form
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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!!!
Flying_Form
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Oh gosh I thought alfalfa was okay for ulcers! Thank you for telling me this ??I recommend a no soya, no alfalfa, no cereal diet
Flying_Form
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How do you give them the aloe juice and how much? Just mix it into feed or mash?
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This is the best company on the market for service and price. It comes with a pump, so basically 10 squirts into feed.
I fed 100ml per day for a month and started to reduce gradually to 80 per day
This is the best company on the market for service and price. It comes with a pump, so basically 10 squirts into feed.
I fed 100ml per day for a month and started to reduce gradually to 80 per day
Callieann
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I was told by vets to feed mine alfalfa chaff and Speedy beet
Peglo
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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.
Squeak
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Oh gosh I thought alfalfa was okay for ulcers! Thank you for telling me this ??
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.
moorhillhorses
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Agree and before riding a syringe of the Ulc maintenance from Ponease and a handful of chaff. Has made a huge difference in our horses xI recommend a no soya, no alfalfa, no cereal diet
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The difference is remarkable isnt it! ?
MereChristmas
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After all the medicines were finished my pony seems to be fine on Allen and Page Fast Fibre, Spillers Ulca Balancer and salt.
Before the Ulca balancer he had Spillers Lite and lean.
I have some powders to use before stressful times.
I can’t use chaffs because the pony has diastemas.
https://www.animalcare.co.uk/animalcare-launches-equizol-uks-first-equine-omeprazole-granules/
Before the Ulca balancer he had Spillers Lite and lean.
I have some powders to use before stressful times.
I can’t use chaffs because the pony has diastemas.
https://www.animalcare.co.uk/animalcare-launches-equizol-uks-first-equine-omeprazole-granules/
ecb89
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The new dengie ulsa lite chaff is really soft
Hormonal Filly
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Did you use this for maintenance or to treat potential ulcers? Considering trying it for my mare, no other ulcer symptoms apart from being sensitive at her girth area.