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suleilitha schreef:

Even over de bewering dat het wordt veroorzaakt door opsluiting in een stal, hoe kan het dan dat wij vroeger een pony hebben gehad die 24 uur per dag, 12 maanden per jaar, op de wei stond, samen met een andere pony en toch een fanatiek luchtzuiger was?

Anne_GTI schreef:

Zo eentje ken ik ook. Veulen liep nog gewoon 24/7 bij de merrie en was 6 maanden oud. De rikkenpaaltjes waren ideaal.

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What are the signs of gastric ulcers?
Adult horses with gastric ulcers often show no signs. However, they may show non-specific signs such as: weight loss, reduced appetite, poor physical condition, dullness, colic, diarrhoea, poor performance, or change in behaviour. Often the degree of ulceration doesn't relate to the severity of the signs. A horse with mild ulceration may show marked clinical effects; whereas those with extensive ulceration may not appear ill.

Foals usually show more obvious signs of pain. Diarrhoea is the most common sign, other signs include excess salivation, grinding their teeth ( bruxism ) and colic.

Ulcers and crib-biting
Recent work suggests a relationship between gastric ulcers and some stereotypies (previously referred to as vices ). Crib-biting and wind-sucking may be attempts by the horse to stimulate saliva production to neutralise stomach acid.

Professor Christine Nicol and her colleagues have been investigating the relationship between crib-biting and gastric ulceration in foals. They looked at what effect feeding an antacid diet had on both crib-biting behaviour and gastric ulceration.(5) They found that crib-biting foals had more signs of gastric ulceration than did foals that did not crib-bite. Foals that were fed an antacid diet for 14 weeks showed a significant improvement in the condition of the stomach. Although most foals showed a reduction in crib-biting behaviour over the duration of the trial, the reduction was most marked in the foals on the antacid diet. Eleven of twelve foals on the antacid diet showed either an improvement or no change in the gastric ulceration score - (ie they had fewer ulcers at the end of the study.) In contrast, only three foals on the base diet improved or did not change, and four grew worse.

They found that foals that showed the greatest improvement in ulceration score also tended to show the most reduction in crib-biting.

Daniel Mills and Clare MacLeod showed that feeding adult horses an antacid diet led to a reduction in cribbing activity after just one week. Further reductions in cribbing occurred when the antacid diet was fed for another five weeks. They also found that neither age, nor the duration of the cribbing behaviour prior to being fed the antacid diet, affected the effectiveness of the treatment. (6)