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Location: Texas | What grain do you feed your ulcer prone horses? |
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| Omni cubes, if you have a distributor close by. I travel 2 hours one way once a month to get mine. They are alfalfa cubes with a very small amount of oats and flaxseed in them. They are soft enough you don't soak them. Easy, peasy. I love them. If, however, I couldn't get them any more, I'd buy alfalfa cubes, oats and flaxseed and just mix them. The cubes have worked on my ulcer prone horses (3). |
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Location: Peg-Leg Julia Grimm | No or very little grain. Less than 2# per feeding. By that I mean real grains. Not the bagged pelleted sweetened processed feeds that the big name companies are selling as "grain". There may not be very much actual grain in that stuff.
Try to get the calories the horse needs into him with hay (preferably alfalfa) and as much quality grass hay as they will eat. Horses with ulcers are more likely to willingly eat alfalfa than any other feed. That's what I've noticed about horses with digestive problems. I have used Forco for a horse like this and it will help with gut issues related to eating grain. THE has an awesome product called GastroPlus that has proven to heal ulcers. But if you continue to haul and stress the horse you will need a maintenance plan. Some people dose the horse with GastroPlus on the days you will haul and be away from home to ease any new issues and prevent a relapse. |
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Location: Texas | Thank you both! I know they are not supposed to have molasses or sugar. Was hoping for an easy buy. He does get alfalfa twice a day and free choice grass hay. |
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| I've given up on everything but alfalfa, rice bran (stabilized), and whole oats. |
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Location: Tuttle Oklahoma | I feed rice bran and alfalfa. My very hard keeper gets 1 lb Max E Glo for morning, 1lb Max E glo in afternoon and 1.5 lb Renew Gold at night and easy keepers just get 1 lb Renew Gold. |
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| Look into Tribute feeds. I feed Tribute feeds to my.ulcer.prone horse. Love it. |
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Location: OH. IO | readytorodeo - 2016-04-01 5:33 PM
Look into Tribute feeds. I feed Tribute feeds to my.ulcer.prone horse. Love it.
Have fed kalm ultra from tribute for years and LOVE IT. |
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Location: Where you need a paddle... Oregon! | I'm doing free choice alfalfa hay and orchard grass, whole oats, flax, and Renew Gold. Pasture 24-7 with a little over an acre to graze by herself. I was feeding coconut oil but she quit eating it. I've fed it to her in the past, so not sure why she turns her nose up now, except that I bought the refined kind this time that doesn't smell or taste like coconut. |
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Location: Got Lobsta? | Renew Gold made a HUGE difference in my horse! |
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Location: God's country...aka TEXAS | Renew Gold is the best |
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Location: Somewhere between S@%&# stirrer and Saint | Omeprazole |
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Location: Central Texas | I feed mine Renew Gold and Chaffhaye. I also did a full treatment with Omeprazole and then Vet put him on Ranitidine and slowly reduced that until he was off all meds. Knock on wood he has been fine for almost a year now. He also has free choice coastal hay and 24/7 access to pasture. I try not to ever have to have him locked up in the barn. |
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Location: North Dakota | Alfalfa Hay, grass hay (free choice), beet pulp, 1 lb of Ultium, and Platinum CJ. When I haul he gets a dose of Gastrogard and 10cc of Equisure each day we are gone from home. |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I feed Renew Gold, Chaffehaye and NuTrack Digestive Aid |
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Location: Louisiana | Alfalfa, alfalfa, alfalfa. :)
And 1lb Renew Gold per day really helped my gelding bloom. He also gets about 1.5lb whole oats once per day to mix his supplements in. He's currently on nothing for ulcers and is doing great. I am about to start hauling him again and do plan on giving something extra to help prevent them. I've given In the Zone paste before and have some on hand, but I've also been looking into the Oxy products.
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Location: Alberta, Canada | I've recently switched my ulcer mare to Buckeye Gro N Win. She is also on omeprazole daily, but even on omeprazole, getting anything into her was tough. Since starting buckeye, she licks her pail clean and has never been easier to keep ulcer free. I've heard fantastic things about Renew Gold as well but being in Canada we can't get it here easily :( |
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Location: Kentucky | readytorodeo - 2016-04-01 5:33 PM Look into Tribute feeds. I feed Tribute feeds to my.ulcer.prone horse. Love it.
I feed Tribute Kalm N EZ, love it. |
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| Murphy - 2016-04-05 9:40 AM
readytorodeo - 2016-04-01 5:33 PM Look into Tribute feeds. I feed Tribute feeds to my.ulcer.prone horse. Love it.
I feed Tribute Kalm N EZ, love it.
Has anyone had success ordering the Tribute feeds from AMazon????? They have a good no molasses, Low starch option that might be easier for me than mixing my own mix.
Edited by FLITASTIC 2016-04-05 12:07 PM
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Location: mi | FLITASTIC - 2016-04-05 1:04 PM Murphy - 2016-04-05 9:40 AM readytorodeo - 2016-04-01 5:33 PM Look into Tribute feeds. I feed Tribute feeds to my.ulcer.prone horse. Love it. I feed Tribute Kalm N EZ, love it. Has anyone had success ordering the Tribute feeds from AMazon????? They have a good no molasses, Low starch option that might be easier for me than mixing my own mix.
I feed the Kalm N Ez and really like it. My ulcer prone boy could not handle Oats even just a small amount for adding supplements.
As for ordering it from Amazon never even thought of it until someone mentioned it on here. It is about $10 more per bag on Amazon then what I pay at my local feed store. So that free shipping isn't really free. You might be able to just call Kalmbach feeds yourself and see what it would cost to get some delivered to you.
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