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Signs – edit!

• Poor performance
• Reduced appetite and weight loss
• Altered temperament – difficult to ride, bucking, refusing at jumps
• Teeth grinding, crib biting and windsucking
• Colic or diarrhoea
• Back pain

Contributing Factors – Edit

The horse in its natural environment spends up to 16 hours per day feeding in a herd. The naturally acidic stomach contents are buffered by saliva produced in response to this regular eating and the glandular part of the stomach is protected by a mucous/bicarbonate protective layer with rapid cell turnover. In a stable or on poor grazing the horse spends less time eating with a lower volume of forage, so decreasing saliva production.

Treatment 

Management needs to adjust to increase the frequency of feeding and the type of forage. A 4 week course of gastrogard may be prescibed where the severity and extent of the ulcers indicates.

Prognosis

Following treatment most horses show a big improvement in performance, with better temperament, better appetite and improved condition.