How dietary choices and feeding schedules help prevent and manage equine gastric ulcers, improving horse comfort and performance.
Gastric ulcers cause chronic pain that affects every aspect of a horse's life, from eating and drinking to movement and behaviour. Horses cannot communicate this pain clearly, so it often manifests as reluctance to work, girthiness, poor performance, or behavioural changes that owners may misattribute to training problems. Recognising ulcer risk and addressing it through nutrition is one of the most impactful welfare interventions for horses in performance settings.