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Location: Riding or working in Texas | My favorite 4 year old well almost 5 year old mare is a very picky eater. She is also a hard keeper which dose not help.. She gets great feed twice a day all the grass she can eat and a healthy flake of alfalfa. She is on a regular exercise program and for the most part she looks great.
Here is my frustration she will go through spells where she refuses to eat all of her feed or hay for about a week she eats a little but wont clean it up. I have wondered if its maybe she is in heat and that affects her ?? She tends to drop quite a bit of weight in this time i always get her back but.
Im not sure.. she is wormed, teeth are kept up on, no ulcers... ?
Any ideas would be welcome i will try to upload pics..
I have six other horses on the same or similar feed program and they look amazing
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | She is getting Thomas Moore Pellet 12/8 with empower boost . she is turned out on great pasture coastal grass, then at night same feed as am with a hefty flake of alfalfa. |
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| I know people are tired of hearing it but- check her for ulcers. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GLP - 2016-10-30 10:02 AM I know people are tired of hearing it but- check her for ulcers.
This^^^ and maybe change her feed, sounds like she may not be likeing what your feeding her.  |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | i have had her checked vet says no i also have her on an ulcer preventative and give her ulcer guard before every race.. and how weird that its periodic that she goes through these spells
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | She eats it great most of the time i can try changing it up. She would prefer sweet feed but im not going to use that as her main dish lol darn mare |
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| Have you treated for hind gut ulcers? Leaky gut? I have always found that anytime they go off feed it usually has something to do with their digestion, maybe not ulcers specifically. That or pain somewhere. A horse's nature is to hide pain for survival, although some don't seem to have that instinct, 
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | I haven't treated her for back gut ulcers. vet did check for ulcers would the back gut have shown up? |
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| Turninhard - 2016-10-30 12:51 PM
I haven't treated her for back gut ulcers. vet did check for ulcers would the back gut have shown up?
From what my vet told me, no. I had a mare that coliced. We got her over it but she was still showing pain. Took her back to the vet where she stayed all day for observation. He told me I needed to treat her for hind gut ulcers. He said there was no way to check because of how long the horse's gut is. I treated her and she has not shown any sign of pain.
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | okay thats good to know thank you! what did you do to treat for hind gut ulcers?
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| Turninhard - 2016-10-30 1:31 PM
okay thats good to know thank you! what did you do to treat for hind gut ulcers?
Some people have fed Rantadine(?). But I already had Cur Ost Stomach and the Adapt, so I fed that. My sister has had great success with THE's ulcer meds. |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | ok well maybe i have been combating hind gut ulcers then i use alo juice and ranitadine (sp?) just generic omeprazole, on a daily basis as ulcer preventative.. thank you so much for brain storming with me ! |
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Location: OH. IO | are you aware that your feed seems to made on the same property as medicated cattle feed?you do know this is a HUGE issue right now correct???I just did a quick research on your feed,personally,i wouldnt feed it.good luck. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Turninhard - 2016-10-30 12:31 PM okay thats good to know thank you! what did you do to treat for hind gut ulcers?
THE GastroPLUS does wonders for gastric and hind gut ulcers. $110 shipped and they have a new GI Ulcer Support. 80 scoops is $80. Cheaper than some other alternatives and something that can be fed long term without adverse effects.
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Location: Texas | the most fail safe method to check for ulcers is with gastroscopy. There's no way to get a scope into the hind gut. We diagnose hindgut ulcers based on the combination of clinical signs, history, we look at a CBC/Chem for evidence, you can ultrasound to try and get a picture of the colonic wall, and theres a fecal occult blood test that's not super reliable. |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | @ jake 16 I was not aware of this however i have been following the feed scare. is is possible to get feed that is not processed in this manor? I am very good at picking feed and the contents of this feed is why i chose it as to the fact that my horses look great on it! thank you for researching it!
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Location: OH. IO | Turninhard - 2016-10-30 8:50 PM@ jake 16 I was not aware of this however i have been following the feed scare. is is possible to get feed that is not processed in this manor? I am very good at picking feed and the contents of this feed is why i chose it as to the fact that my horses look great on it! thank you for researching it! It is possible:) there is a list of feeds on the thread about nutrena check that list to see if anything is near you.i believe they are listed on page two of that thread.
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | Thank you for the information on ulcers !!! it seams i need to have a second opnion from a vet about the ulcers that seams to be the direction everyone is going.. I had realy thought that there was a possibility that it was when she was in heat because it seams to go hand and hand .  |
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Location: Riding or working in Texas | @ Jake 16
i will read the thread thank you !!!
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