Frozen Hoof Boots
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After spending many sleepness nights I'm still trying to work out why my horse has had two colics within a month and has now been scoped with Gastric ulcers plus now being treated for hind gut ulcers. My boy from being a placid, cheeky, loving cuddly horse to being really bad tempered, irritable, bitey, very girthy etc. Saw a great first week on the Gastrogard which then tapered off so hence now treating for hind gut ulcers. He also was on two short courses of either bute or danilion for no more than one week as we've had numerious self harming incidents which have needed pain relief under vet advice.
We changed diet over many weeks prior to going barefoot and the first colic was two weeks after introducing HiFi Molasses free (which has soya oil in). A month later after introducing Fast Fibre two weeks later (has soya oil in) we colic again. I removed the HiFi gradually and went back to Alfa-A Original (doesn't have soya in) thinking remove what I've added and go back to square one. So far since then touching wood as I type no more colics but we are still on the Fast Fibre but he's just not his usual self.
What I'm interested to hear are there other people out there that have had colics or ulcers where you've then discovered your horse has an intollerance and if you did what feed did you move to instead? I see Simple Systems doesn't have Soya in it but Pure Feeds does
We need low starch and sugar.
Hopefully there's other people out there who've experienced this?
We changed diet over many weeks prior to going barefoot and the first colic was two weeks after introducing HiFi Molasses free (which has soya oil in). A month later after introducing Fast Fibre two weeks later (has soya oil in) we colic again. I removed the HiFi gradually and went back to Alfa-A Original (doesn't have soya in) thinking remove what I've added and go back to square one. So far since then touching wood as I type no more colics but we are still on the Fast Fibre but he's just not his usual self.
What I'm interested to hear are there other people out there that have had colics or ulcers where you've then discovered your horse has an intollerance and if you did what feed did you move to instead? I see Simple Systems doesn't have Soya in it but Pure Feeds does
We need low starch and sugar.
Hopefully there's other people out there who've experienced this?
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