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Location: Willows, CA | This is a classic ulcer situation. Stalled, empty stomach part of the time and possible teeth issues add up to this. Check for worms, have teeth done, add a slow feeder system if they have to be kept in a stall so that they have around the clock access to some forage. We all have to work with the situation that we have, but this situation is where we typically see ulcers, just as you did last year after the horse was kept in like this. Treating for ulcers the days that you haul and run is simply putting a bandaid on the situation. If, in fact, the issue is ulcers, there is no option but to run the full course to cure them, and change the daily management of the horse to prevent them from starting all over again. | |
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| winwillows - 2016-02-11 9:46 AM
This is a classic ulcer situation. Stalled, empty stomach part of the time and possible teeth issues add up to this. Check for worms, have teeth done, add a slow feeder system if they have to be kept in a stall so that they have around the clock access to some forage. We all have to work with the situation that we have, but this situation is where we typically see ulcers, just as you did last year after the horse was kept in like this. Treating for ulcers the days that you haul and run is simply putting a bandaid on the situation. If, in fact, the issue is ulcers, there is no option but to run the full course to cure them, and change the daily management of the horse to prevent them from starting all over again.
She has a slow feeder, food 24/7, she is stalled but she also has a run 24/7. It's the best I can do. She has already been cured and rescoped clean for ulcers. Teeth have been done. She was wormed in December. And gets wormed every 3 months on a rotating wormer. Spring she gets a power pac. She was treated for the ulcers and is kept on a daily maintenance and my vet said to give her 1/2 dose of omeprazole before the day of the race, day of, and day after. Her ulcers have not came back. I have done absolutely everything for this horse in terms of the ulcers. I'm very well educated on them. I do the omeprazole just as an extra added protection. It must be working so I'm not going to change that specifically. I also give her some soaked grain before I just ride to soak up any stomach acid that could possibly cause any sort of discomfort for her.
My next step is a fecal. After that, I'm out of ideas. | |
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Location: Willows, CA | By rescoped for ulcers do you mean recently, or last summer when you treated. Some alfalfa rather than soaked grain might be a better source buffer to stomach acid when you run. Current clinical studies seem to show little advantage to on and off med treatments on run days. You As to her teeth, how long ago was that. There may be issues with feed or hay contamination, but I usually see mouth or ulcer problem being the cause when this happens. | |
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