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| There is a fecal test that can be done to determine if there are ulcers. My vet charges $55 for this. Much easier and cheaper than scoping. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeomom3 - 2016-05-31 1:23 PM
komet. - 2016-05-31 12:52 PM rodeomom3 - 2016-05-31 8:27 AM komet. - 2016-05-31 8:14 AM It's amazing how horses lived through lions, tigers,bears,wolves and ulcers for 35,000 years before we came along...  Well, we changed how they live... They still eat pretty much the same thing.... Kick one loose on the front lawn and see what happens...
Processed from what? Plants....? Every autumn they would browse along and eat the tops (seeds) from oats and wheat and other plants.... Grain on the stem...
I find it truly amazing how an animal so large and powerful as a horse can be as fragile as they are... |
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| Horses also live longer now, since we are more educated on what we can do to keep them healthy. ;-)
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| magic gunsmoke - 2016-05-31 12:09 PM
There is a fecal test that can be done to determine if there are ulcers. My vet charges $55 for this. Much easier and cheaper than scoping.
My vet said that the fecal test is extremely unreliable ( If your referring to the Succeed test). |
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| Good to know. I have heard it can only tell if a horse has a certain gastric ulcer. It won't pick up on the rarer type ( forget the name) and poop must be fresh. |
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| magic gunsmoke - 2016-05-31 12:48 PM
Good to know. I have heard it can only tell if a horse has a certain gastric ulcer. It won't pick up on the rarer type ( forget the name) and poop must be fresh.
Yea I'm not sure what about the test made it unreliable but she told me not to waste my money. Same vet said that the lameness locator was also not as reliable as a trained eye/good vet for lameness. I guess at a AAEP conference they did a head to head test of lameness vets and locator and the vets did better at finding problems than the locator did. Its all a tool. lol |
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| Dex, banamine, antibiotics and previcox sounds like it overloaded her system. Ulcer guard will not work when you give it the day you leave, it takes a day or 2 to build up in their system in order to take effect. I'd look at getting a CBC ran, especially after being on all those Meds recently. Kidney and liver are 2 that'd take the damage from all the meds |
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Location: Fort Bragg North Carolina | Thanks for all responses! I'm still looking for a vet who has the equipment to scope in the meantime she is off previcox in the meantime |
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