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Problems of Domestication

TheHorse.com Article #2202

Domestication has created problems for the horse, including stomach ulcers. Stress of confinement and unnatural conditions, stress from emotional and physical aspects of athletic careers--all the stresses that go with trying to adapt to human management--can create ulcers in horses. Ulcers, once thought to be mainly a problem in confined foals, also plague adult horses. Racehorses and other performance horses have an especially high incidence.

Many common management practices used with performance horses contribute to ulcer development--high grain–low roughage diets (increased stomach acid due to infrequent high-concentrate meals, with lack of roughage in the tract to help buffer the acid); lack of continual grazing; stress of confinement combined with periods of intense exercise; use of anabolic steroids; the steroid-like plant substances in some feeds; and use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.

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Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS)

Horses are grazing animals and need a regular intake of roughage, which common feeding practices of stabled horses almost always fail to provide. Horses have small stomachs and constantly secrete stomach acids that aren’t neutralized completely through twice-a-day feedings. Acid accumulation may result in the development of stomach ulcers, also known as Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome or EGUS

Gastric Ulcers

Did you know...?

It has been reported that up to 90% of race horses and 60% of show horses have gastric ulcers!

Severe ulceration of the stomach, caused by excess acidity, can develop rapidly in horses deprived of feed or not consuming feed. Compared with being turned out to pasture, stall confinement alone appears to be an important factor in the development of gastric ulcers in horses. The Stable Grazer automatic hay feeder can help fight the battle against ulcers by feeding frequent, small meals reducing acid build-up in the stomach.