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[RC] Daily Wormer - sherman

In reading recently that the extra calcium in alfalfa may help prevent ulcers, I also wonder if the complete removal of alfalfa from our horses’ diets (other than on ride day) may have contributed to more ulcers?  In reading the Decade Interviews, looks like long ago many horses were fed straight alfalfa and while I know this is not recommended, maybe a pound or two a day would reduce the incident of ulcers?

 

Kathy

 

Jody wrote:

Back years ago we didn't *seem* to have the ulcer problems.  Now, it seems tons of horses are affected by them.  I have often wondered, have I been lucky or what to have had several horses in this sport since 1979, and shoved all those elytes down them for years and not had ulcers.  We tend to blame the elytes, when maybe it was something else like daily wormers that are used so much more now a days.