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How many Tums can I give a horse?
If you want to see if your horse has stomach problems, you can give it 1/2 cup of Mylanta (Calcium Carbonate) or 20 Tums 3 – 5 times per day for several days. If you see any type of changes, you need to treat your horse. It may or may not have ulcers, but a change means there are stomach problems.
What can I give my horse for stomach ulcers?
Performance Fibre is ideal if you have a fussy feeder. Include alfalfa in the feed for horses with ulcers. Research has shown that alfalfa is a better buffer to acidity than other fibre sources due to its protein and calcium content.
Can you give a horse Maalox?
Oral antacids, such as Maalox and Mylanta, work to neutralize the stomach acid that has already been produced and are often recommended by veterinarians, although they have not been approved for use in horses by the FDA.
Is calcium carbonate safe for horses?
CALCIUM CARBONATE is a very good source of calcium. Calcium supplement for horses. When the diet does not contain sufficient amounts of calcium. Foals, young horses, lactating mares and hard-worked horses: 1-2 measured doses daily, mixed well in feed.
What’s the best way to give a horse medication?
To administer medications, halter your horse, slide the syringe up one side of the horse’s mouth inside the cheek, and try to dispense the mixture onto the tongue. Hold your horse’s head up until he swal-lows. Use this same technique when dosing your horse with paste medications that come in pre-loaded syringes.
How many antihistamines can you give a horse?
The dose was 10 per day, based on the fact a horse is approximately 10 times the size of a human therefore 10x human dose (1 per day).
What kind of TUMS should I give my Horse?
Horses known to enjoy peppermints should go for the regular-flavor Tums. Others might find one or more of the new fruit flavors more appealing. We can’t guarantee your horse will go for Tums, but a surprising number of test horses did, including those with stomach ulcers that were severely off feed.
Can you use magnesium hydroxide on a horse?
(please see bottom of my 1st post for the canadian amounts of dosage ingredients of magnesium hyDrOxide in Mylanta to compare to the amounts in the american product). As well, judging from your response I gather that you yourself have never used this as temporary relief method on a horse or know of anyone who has.