Feeding to prevent ulcers & promote condition.

[Roisin_M]

Hi!
I'm about to take on a horse that has suffered in the past with stomach ulcers, he's 8yrs old and a typical stressy TB.

He really needs to put on some weight & condition, at the moment he's not doing any work, but i am going to begin gentle slow work, lots of road work and light schooling with the intention to eventually regulary hunting and some small comps.

So i've been scouring the web, books to find feed that is suitable and good for ulcer prone horses. Is anything in the below list a total no-no? would you personally recommend any of them?

Here is the list, I obviously won't be feeding it all at once!

allen & page Fast fibre
Spillers conditioning fibre
alfa a oil
alfa a balancer
hi fi balancer
rapeseed oil
veg oil
olive oil
flaxseed oil
unmollassed sugar beet
sugar beet pulp
alfa beet
pink powder
equine gold biotal
gastro gold
limestone flour

Thanks for reading!

 

[Firewell]

I feed my TB HiFi, fibre nuts and pink powder and he looks a million dollars. He's is light/medium work at the moment, ridden 6x per week and does a BD and a jumping competition every month, will event in the spring/summer. He is absolutely dandy on this diet, almost bordering on fat at the moment! He gets good hay and grass too.

I think if they have enough fibre TB's put weight on really well. It's good for their stomachs and doesn't stress them out.

Mine was pretty hot on Alfa a oil, it's very high energy and mine was rather full of beans on it!

Fast fibre did absolutely nothing. It's only 7% protein and 7% energy compared to the 9-9.5 of the fibre nuts. It wasn't enough to maintain condition on my horse, I may as well have fed him mashed up straw with sugar beet water.

Kwik beet is good as is feeding oils and my mums horse has the gold biotal and it seems to help.

Baileys lo cal is a good balancer and not too rich.

 

[beckieswann]

For a maintenance supplement I highly recommend protexin gut balancer. Cannot sing it's praises enough!