Hind gut ulcers/acidosis advice

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Hi - my mare has just been diagnosed (last 3 weeks) with hind gut ulcers/acidosis. She has started succeed in the last 2 weeks and is starting Equishure when it arrives. What I am wondering is what do people feed their horses? She has ad lib hay but we are moving yards and I need to decide on feed for her as I'm not a fan of what our current yard use. Thanks
 
I fed my mare who had this: ad lib hay, out all day in field, 2 small feeds of grass nuts, unmolassed chaff, micronised linseed and gut restore from thunder brooks. She also had a detox from Trinity that the trimmer recommended.
 
Talk to your vet re diet, every horse is different so what suits one may not suit another. Ad-lib forage is a must, as is low sugar/starch

for my HGA mare my vets suggested an exclusion diet Start with just forage then add anything else one ingredient at a time, take notes for a week or two to see if there are any effects, then try the next ingredient.

You may find you are better with 'straights', for example my mare has soaked grassnuts, a high-spec vits and mins powder, a little micronised linseed and Equisure (she can't take alfalfa, sugar beet or wheatfeed which are in a lot of commercial feeds).
 
Mine is 15 months down the line, the one thing that made the biggest difference was the Equishure.
Initially we fed grass nuts, plain chopped straw chaff and linseed. He did ok on this as well as making sure he was in for 8 hours a day off the grass to eat a lot of hay. Over last winter we swapped the linseed for Omega Rice which is rice bran and linseed to add calories. He's a big TB and had lost a lot of weight.
After 6 months he was a different horse in the best possible way :) I moved him off the grass nuts and back onto Keyflow feeds as he was in a decent amount of work and grass nuts just isn't enough for him. He's thrived on this. I'm about to start him in their Pink Mash to add a bit of bulk to his feeds and allow me to feed less mix while he's doing a bit less work over January.
I feed Protexin Gut Balancer when he changes grazing to help him adjust, though I do that with all my horses so it's not specific to him.
I have kept him on the Equishure as I am too scared to stop it. I will keep it going long term if I have too.
 
Oh, mine can't have alfalfa or sugarbeet and maybe not copra either. I've also avoided feeding haylage, he's only recently had a couple of tiny haynets of it as a treat, and he didn't go back out on 24/7 grazing until 8 months after diagnosis.
 
who is your vet and how did they diagnose? my vet said hind gut ulcers don't exist but I am sure my horse has this. you sound like you have a very good vet.



tilly49 said:
Hi - my mare has just been diagnosed (last 3 weeks) with hind gut ulcers/acidosis. She has started succeed in the last 2 weeks and is starting Equishure when it arrives. What I am wondering is what do people feed their horses? She has ad lib hay but we are moving yards and I need to decide on feed for her as I'm not a fan of what our current yard use. Thanks
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