What do you do if your usually balanced performance pony starts behaving a little well, bizarre? Would you jump to the assumption that he’s getting a distended head, or would you attempt to give the problem deeper analysis?
Don’t jump to conclusions. If you find your horse all of a sudden doing things that aren’t normal for him, you may want to desist from dismissing it all as his attitude. You may want to get your vet over to do a bit of investigation.
Your horse may quite possibly be signalling equine ulcer symptoms to you.
Here’s what should get you alert:
your horse refuses to jump
he plays up in the street smart way
he kicks at the trailer
he pins his ears back when you start to mount him
he bites or kicks as his girth is being tightened.
If more than one of those behavior patterns happen simultaneously, don’t dismiss them as unrelated. Every one of them arise from equine ulcers. Just recently, stomach and colon ulcers have been branded serious health treats by vets and animal health researchers. They can be of particular concern if they afflict performance horses and horses under coaching.
Ulcers are most commonly found among these classes of horses because of:
irregular high carbohydrate meals
irregular access to hay or pasture
loaded training sessions
high stress ways of living
unrestrained use of substances, particularly the non-steroidal and anti-inflammatory type.
When treating horses for ulcers, I prefer to give them pelleted senior horse feed. This feed is much easier to digest than grains. I have also found through long experience that bolstering feed with Simplexity Health and Stomach Soother, singly, both together and both or either with SUCCEED can be of serious help.
I describe these products below.
Simplexity Health Products
These products are based mostly on potent acidophilus, bifidus, enzymes, and blue green algae. When added as a supplement to pelleted senior feed, they are intensely soothing to the gut. They enable coaching horses with ulcer symptoms to remain in coaching without any risk of undue implications. Acidophilus and bifidus are probiotics that assist in healing stomach ulcerations; the enzymes help in easy digestion without problem. The blue-green algae boosts the healing process while serving as a simply accessed energy source derived from the glycogen in the blue-green algae cell wall.
Stomach Soother
This product has been designed specifically to treat equine stomach ulcers and digestive distress. The product is an extract of the tropical fruit natural papaya, local to Central America and Mexico. Papain, the important ingredient in papaya, is similar to the digestive enzyme pepsin. It provokes appetite, soothes esophagus and stomach membranes and quells bowel inflamation.
Papaya is also loaded in necessities like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, iron, potassium, niacin, riboflavin, and thiamin. Ulcer formation can be completely stopped with a dosage of only 2 oz twice per day. Horses with ulcer symptoms experience a very soothing effect after papaya intake. This product has a long life if it is refrigerated once the container is opened. The maker of this product is working on little containers with contents enough for one day’s dosage, to help those who don’t have access to refrigerators to hand.
SUCCEED
SUCCEED is an organic product with polar lipid-rich oat oil and flour of oat, loaded in fiber soluble in beta-glucan, extract of yeast, and L-Threonine as well as L-Glutamine, the amino acids. Polar lipids, which are water-soluble fats, greatly help bloodstream absorption of nutrients and sustain healthy stomach linings. Digestion rate is improved by soluble oat fiber. Ordinary volumes of digestive microbes are sustained in the bowel by yeast extract. The amino acids L-Glutamine and L-Threonine contribute to the fitness of bowel mucous lining.
SUCCEED is available in paste form to enable every day administration to horses that are off feed, a positive sign of equine ulcers. SUCCEED is available too in granule form that serves as feed supplement, to be added once or twice daily.
I’ve found SUCCEED to be absolutely superb for horses going through ulcers in the iintestine. Most horse owners have found that combining SUCCEED and Stomach Soother gives the most impressive results.
How To Detect Ulcers In Your Horses And Treat Them
What do you do if your usually balanced performance pony starts behaving a little well, bizarre? Would you jump to the assumption that he’s getting a distended head, or would you attempt to give the problem deeper analysis?
Don’t jump to conclusions. If you find your horse all of a sudden doing things that aren’t normal for him, you may want to desist from dismissing it all as his attitude. You may want to get your vet over to do a bit of investigation.
Your horse may quite possibly be signalling equine ulcer symptoms to you.
Here’s what should get you alert:
your horse refuses to jump
he plays up in the street smart way
he kicks at the trailer
he pins his ears back when you start to mount him
he bites or kicks as his girth is being tightened.
If more than one of those behavior patterns happen simultaneously, don’t dismiss them as unrelated. Every one of them arise from equine ulcers. Just recently, stomach and colon ulcers have been branded serious health treats by vets and animal health researchers. They can be of particular concern if they afflict performance horses and horses under coaching.
Ulcers are most commonly found among these classes of horses because of:
irregular high carbohydrate meals
irregular access to hay or pasture
loaded training sessions
high stress ways of living
unrestrained use of substances, particularly the non-steroidal and anti-inflammatory type.
When treating horses for ulcers, I prefer to give them pelleted senior horse feed. This feed is much easier to digest than grains. I have also found through long experience that bolstering feed with Simplexity Health and Stomach Soother, singly, both together and both or either with SUCCEED can be of serious help.
I describe these products below.
Simplexity Health Products
These products are based mostly on potent acidophilus, bifidus, enzymes, and blue green algae. When added as a supplement to pelleted senior feed, they are intensely soothing to the gut. They enable coaching horses with ulcer symptoms to remain in coaching without any risk of undue implications. Acidophilus and bifidus are probiotics that assist in healing stomach ulcerations; the enzymes help in easy digestion without problem. The blue-green algae boosts the healing process while serving as a simply accessed energy source derived from the glycogen in the blue-green algae cell wall.
Stomach Soother
This product has been designed specifically to treat equine stomach ulcers and digestive distress. The product is an extract of the tropical fruit natural papaya, local to Central America and Mexico. Papain, the important ingredient in papaya, is similar to the digestive enzyme pepsin. It provokes appetite, soothes esophagus and stomach membranes and quells bowel inflamation.
Papaya is also loaded in necessities like Vitamin A, Vitamin C, calcium, iron, potassium, niacin, riboflavin, and thiamin. Ulcer formation can be completely stopped with a dosage of only 2 oz twice per day. Horses with ulcer symptoms experience a very soothing effect after papaya intake. This product has a long life if it is refrigerated once the container is opened. The maker of this product is working on little containers with contents enough for one day’s dosage, to help those who don’t have access to refrigerators to hand.
SUCCEED
SUCCEED is an organic product with polar lipid-rich oat oil and flour of oat, loaded in fiber soluble in beta-glucan, extract of yeast, and L-Threonine as well as L-Glutamine, the amino acids. Polar lipids, which are water-soluble fats, greatly help bloodstream absorption of nutrients and sustain healthy stomach linings. Digestion rate is improved by soluble oat fiber. Ordinary volumes of digestive microbes are sustained in the bowel by yeast extract. The amino acids L-Glutamine and L-Threonine contribute to the fitness of bowel mucous lining.
SUCCEED is available in paste form to enable every day administration to horses that are off feed, a positive sign of equine ulcers. SUCCEED is available too in granule form that serves as feed supplement, to be added once or twice daily.
I’ve found SUCCEED to be absolutely superb for horses going through ulcers in the iintestine. Most horse owners have found that combining SUCCEED and Stomach Soother gives the most impressive results.
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