Welkom Kitbits, bij mij was het ook van belang om op dagen dat het weer ineens omsloeg, dus hoge druk en lage druk gebieden die wisselden om dan te zorgen voor voldoende beweging ter ondersteuning bij extra gas dat ontstaat.
Hier is een stuk van een artikel dat ik ooit heb opgeslagen over dat onderwerp, DA en klinieken komen dit soort dieren veel tegen en mijn Whizz had daar vroeger ook echt last van. Veel minder toen ik hem probiotica ben gaan voeren op advies van kliniek. Wijzigingen in het weer en wijzigingen in voerschema's e.d. hebben allemaal hun effect bij gevoelige paarden.
Horse owners everywhere are familiar with the phenomenon that rapid changes in weather systems tend to cause colic symptoms in their horses. It never fails that a thunderstorm moving quickly through the area will cause a sharp increase in calls for the treatment of colic. Oddly enough, no scientific studies have been done that prove there is an association between colic and rapid weather changes, but it is commonly accepted among equine veterinarians that there is a connection.
One of the most common weather related colics is the gas or spasmodic colic. Horses have unique digestive systems in the fact that they are hind gut fermenters. This means that there is an abundance of good bacteria and other microbes in the colons which digest feedstuffs, and break it down into usable nutrients that the horse can absorb and utilize. The byproduct of this fermentation process is gas. In the normal situation, the gas and fecal contents of the colon stay at a certain confortable volume in the colon, and the horse is not painful
During long periods of high atmospheric pressure – long stretches of hot and sunny weather – the gas within the colons that is produced is also compressed by the high atmospheric pressure, keeping it smaller within the confined space of the colon. Because of this compression, the microbes can actually produce more gas than they normally would in the colon. Then, when a rapid weather system rolls through – like a fast moving thunderstorm – there is an associated low pressure atmospheric change. This low pressure causes a release of the pressure on the gas within the colons, and the gas rapidly expands, causing the colon walls to stretch and the horse, as a result, is uncomfortable and shows signs of colic pain.