How to Protect Your Horse from Ulcers

population. Fermentation products and yeast feed the microbes living in the hindgut cecum and large colon. This makes digestion more efficient and promotes B vitamin synthesis to heal the digestive tract.
Offer additional B vitamins. Stress from pain or difficult situation uses up B vitamins at a rapid rate. Offer a Bcomplex preparation that includes all 8 Bvitamins but that does not have added iron there is plenty of iron in forage and supplementation is rarely needed.
You know what stresses your horse
An unfamiliar environment loss of a buddy stalling training travel and performance can result in more acid production. Did you know that a horse that is moved into a stall after being used to pasture turnout is likely to develop a gastric ulcer in less than a week? Make adjustments to your horses lifestyle that would reduce stress. Even a horse that appears calm can have an ulcer.
The best way to avoid an ulcer is to allow your horse to be a horse. And the best way to do that is to give him pasture turnout the more time the better. It not only gives him a steady supply of forage but it lets him walk around have a chance to run and buck and visit with other horses. I realize that it is not always feasible to give your horse all the turnout he wants but keeping hay in front of him at all times while confined will go a long way toward protecting his digestive system.