The Horse's Maine & NH 153A Pickpocket Rd. Brentwood, NH 03833 & Maine and NH's Own Equestrian Newspaper January 2017 $2.00 Cyan Magenta Yellow Yellow Black 1 Happy New Year! We have lots of news, articles from Bethany Larsen, Liselle Batte, Dr. J, NE Equine, a Pony POSTAL CUSTOMER POSTAL Club Review, and Bill Rice/The Other Side is back! ECRWSS January 2017 The Horse'sThe Maine Year & NH Ends are Starting! Page 1 A Few Guidelines for Submitting Articles For the most part, putting articles into The Horse's Maine A MULTI-DISCIPLINE MONTHLY NEWSPAPER EXCLUSIVELY FOR & NH is very easy. Email your THE StatEWIDE EQUESTRIAN COMMUNITY OF MAINE & NH articles and photos to us. Just remember that articles should be A monthly newspaper for, by and Publisher: Bald Hill Press news, news about your group or 13 Cole Farm Road, Dayton, Maine about Maine and NH residents. Opin- Editor: Lynda McCann your barn. 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The stomach is then inflated ulcers? world oblivious to time and more claim to be truly knowledgeable is a common condition in horses with air so that the entire stomach If your horse is prone to gas- importantly the passage of time; even now, I do know which end and foals. While any horse can can be visualized. The parts of tric ulcers, there are several steps one day flows seamlessly into the the money goes in and which end develop gastric ulcers, they tend the stomach that are examined that can be taken to help prevent next and things seem just fine. the manure comes out. Progress to be more common in horses include the cardia (entrance to the recurrence of ulcers in the future. Then you get an email from an old by anyone’s measure I am sure! in high levels of work. Studies stomach), the greater and lesser A preventative dose of omeprazole friend asking how have you and Some found my writings amus- have shown that the prevalence curvature, and the pylorus (where (250 lb dose or ¼ tube for a 1000 your horses been and you realize ing, some thought perhaps it was of gastric ulcers can be as high as the stomach exits into the small in- lb horse) can be given before that maybe in your wandering you a horror novel and some are still 60-90% in show horses and Thor- testine). Before the gastroscope is stressful events such as traveling, may have strolled further off the wondering exactly which space- oughbred racehorses. The equine removed, the extra air is removed competitions, or switching barns. path than you thought. Such is ship dumped me on this planet stomach consists of two sections, from the stomach to prevent colic Since omeprazole takes three days the case regarding these musings but I will do my best to bring you the squamous (non-glandular) due to gastric distension. to reach its full effect, this should called a View From the Other up to date. portion and the glandular portion. be started at least three days prior Side… seems like I hung up my First and foremost we still www.feedstoretoyourdoor.com to the event and continued for the computer just the other week and have all seven horses. We have a duration of the event. Feeding a passed the writing baton on to oth- 35 year old that is convinced he is higher fiber, low starch diet will ers. Apparently I wandered way three and has no teeth but is first lower the gastric pH, and help over into the Other Side as, when in line to eat. Then there is the to prevent ulcers. Hay or pasture asked for an update, I couldn’t 28 year old that keeps reminding should be made available as fre- even find my computer much less the 35 year old that 28 is not so quently as possible. Feeding hay remember when I last put thoughts old after all. Then comes good in a nibble net is a good way to to word. So here we are miles old Widget Head aka the White from where we left each other and Devil aka Potaca, the horse who The two sections are separated by Grade 3 squamous ulcers provide continual access to small a line called the margo plicatus. amounts of hay throughout the somehow a lot older than I was carried me so many miles in so along the margo plicatus Ulcers in the squamous portion day. If possible, hay should be then, seems the horses got older many places around the country of the stomach develop from the Gastric ulcers are graded on fed before grain meals to provide too, can someone please explain and the horse who demands to excess production of gastric acid, a scale of 1-4 based on their a buffering effect.