Results of a new study published this month in Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice show that horses need to chew. Didn’t we already know that? At least with data coming out like this on a regular basis, perhaps eventually we will start to see a positive change in how horses are stabled, fed, [...]
Equine ulcers is a very important – and preventable -health (and pain) issue for horses, but the information about it is scattered all over the web; if someone else has organized it already, I have not found their site. See the ulcer page on my website. There is beginning to be a lot more data [...]
Probably not, and you are not even designed to be a grazing all day with a continuous output of gastric juices (i.e. acid). Yet somehow we expect horses to do just fine on two big meals a day separated by 10 hours or more. Back in 2005, the Journal of Animal Science published a study [...]
On Merial’s website for their ulcer preventive drug, Dr. Linda Schultz, DVM, PhD, writes a summary of the recently released study on ulcers and horses (mentioned in my earlier post of 9/28). In it, Dr. Schultz points out that: “Results showed that an amazing seven out of 10 horses transported and housed in off-site conditions [...]
When someone suggested last summer that Sage had ulcers, and probably had had them from the time she was a foal, it at once made a whole lot of sense yet was also entirely confusing. Everything I had come across up to that point said that ulcers happened in high performance horses, not pleasure horses. [...]