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| My horse has not been hauled in several years. When I haul him now, he is a nervous wreck. I know his stomach must be in knots the way he is acting. What do you use? I have had him looked at by a vet and they said he had no ulcers, but just a nervous stomach. What do you recommend? I am sure there are some threads on here about this and I just missed them. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | GLP - 2015-05-13 3:34 PM My horse has not been hauled in several years. When I haul him now, he is a nervous wreck. I know his stomach must be in knots the way he is acting. What do you use? I have had him looked at by a vet and they said he had no ulcers, but just a nervous stomach. What do you recommend? I am sure there are some threads on here about this and I just missed them.
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| Southtxponygirl - 2015-05-13 3:35 PM
GLP - 2015-05-13 3:34 PM My horse has not been hauled in several years. When I haul him now, he is a nervous wreck. I know his stomach must be in knots the way he is acting. What do you use? I have had him looked at by a vet and they said he had no ulcers, but just a nervous stomach. What do you recommend? I am sure there are some threads on here about this and I just missed them.
I haul mine with a buddy
Oh-uh the old gray horse will NOT be happy to hear that! LOL. I think I will try that next time. When you do that do you use some kind of a stomach soother? |
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Location: 31 lengths farms | I've thought about trying that new pharamone product you put in their nose from Valley Vet for my mare that is being naughty to haul. |
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| I would still treat for ulcers, as research shows over 80 percent of performance horses have ulcers, if he is a nervous horse, I bet he has them.
A scope only goes into the stomach, not into the cecum or hind gut.
If your vet didn't scope and says he doesn't have ulcers, he is a poor vet.
My nervous horses, I haul with a buddy, you can always get a mini
I also always have hay infront
I also give omeprazole the day of and the day after during events, but I may be changing my program to administering a stomach soother 20 min before hauling, and 20 min before running if longer then 4 hours since first dose |
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| cheryl makofka - 2015-05-13 5:05 PM
I would still treat for ulcers, as research shows over 80 percent of performance horses have ulcers, if he is a nervous horse, I bet he has them.
A scope only goes into the stomach, not into the cecum or hind gut.
If your vet didn't scope and says he doesn't have ulcers, he is a poor vet.
My nervous horses, I haul with a buddy, you can always get a mini
I also always have hay infront
I also give omeprazole the day of and the day after during events, but I may be changing my program to administering a stomach soother 20 min before hauling, and 20 min before running if longer then 4 hours since first dose
By stomach soother are you talking about the omeprazole, or something else? |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | I give my one gelding that gets like that a dose of pozzi relax about 1 to 2 hrs before loading...and I put coastal hay and a flake of alfalfa in the trailer in a hay net for em to keep em busy...if they're real bad 1 cc of ace squirt in the mouth like you do wormer about 30 mins before going doesn't hit em hard like it does if you inject it and 1 cc is a light dose for a regular sized horse.if he's just nervous though I'd try the pozzi relax.. |
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| I have my horses on Formula 1 Blue label. I feel that has helped them a tone with hauling and while being at the barrel race. I also use Aculife patches everytime they go on the trailer. I use them on the calming points and it works so well. I can answer any questions about both if you want ot message me. |
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Location: MS | I have one that I don't haul without Oxygen's Jail Break. She has a very nervous stomach.
I've used it on her for years. Only thing that helped.
She even got to the point that she wouldn't load until I gave it to her. Then she'd jump right in. |
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| thanks for all the replies. If one thing doesn't work I will definitely have options.  |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | I use Oxy-Calm paste. Calms but doesn't knock them out like other calmers will. |
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