The Ranvet horse stomach ulcer treatment

by Bev Gidman SA

Case History - One
Sophi

I have a 4 year old pacer that has been very difficult to handle right from the word go. 

Sophi has always been a finicky eater and we have turned her out on a couple of occasions to try and get some weight on her as she looked like a greyhound with poverty lines, ribs showing and very tucked up. 

Sophi continually pulls her legs away from you in a jerking action and wanders back and forth when being shod. It takes two people to take her temperature as she will not let us lift her tail. Sophi gets in quite a tizz on hobble days and manures continuously with a watery dropping, on the track she constantly pulls her head down as if she is pulling. Getting her into the float was another matter, once Sophi was on the float she would constantly swing her head from side to side and march on one foot and then the other, and of course manure in the float all the way to the trial or race. 

Race day that was another disaster, it took three people to get the ear plugs and hood on because she constantly fights us, lurches forward, rears up, pulls herself sideways and lays into you when we finally get her into the trotting sulky after another fight to get the bike on without being kicked or jumped all over. After the race she was just as frantic jumping and kicking, until we let her have as drink of water, hose down time she swings from side to side. There is absolutely no way will she make urine in the urine stall, because Sophi is like a spring wound up ready to go. 

Finally after two years of frustration changing feeds and requesting advice from everyone qualified and unqualified we got on to Ranvet and I started using The Ranvet Ulcer Treatment after three days of using the product she started to eat, 21 days after using The Ranvet Ulcer Treatment we can see the weight difference Sophi has nicely formed manure, she actually used the urinal at the race track she travels well in the float and I can harness her up myself without the danger of being killed. I have no hesitation in recommending The Ranvet Ulcer Treatment to anyone.

Case History - Two
Sienna

From the time I started to educate her she started to kick the wall in the stall and when I had worked her she would continually pull at her rug, eventually tearing several summer rugs to pieces, when we eventually left her rug off all together she would continually bite her stomach and she would fence walk all day. Of course she was a finicky eater too. Once I started her on The Ranvet Ulcer Treatment she started to eat better but it took Sienna a couple of weeks to settle down and stop biting her stomach.

Case History - Three
Keda

From an early age Keda would drink at least 80 litres of water a day and continually chew on all the available trees we had close by and demolishing them, so we installed electric fence wire around his yard, but every chance he got he would grab at trees. He was lazy in his work and stumbled a lot. I started him on The Ranvet Ulcer Treatment within three days he started to drink a reasonable water supply and eventually he is getting a better colour in his coat he is working a treat now and doesn't worry about the trees at all.
 

ULCER UPDATE - 3M SCOPE WORKSHOPS

Over the last four months we have taken the Ranvet scope to areas such as Orange, Cessnock, Medowie, Dubbo, Kembla Grange, Berry, New Zealand and the Gold Coast.

Over 270 horse's stomachs have been scoped and then re-scoped. Percentage rate of ulcers within these numbers where 98% having what we call grade two and grade three ulcers in more than 40% of the stomachs. Some unfortunately had grade four ulcers.

The other findings from these scope workshops are every un-raced two-year-old also had bad ulcers. This in itself is sad, as the young ones are just starting their racing careers.

All horses that had bad ulcers when treated correctly with Ranvet's ulcer treatment experienced 100% healing.

It is strongly suggested to vets and trainers that when ulcers are found and treated they must go on a maintenance treatment after the initial 21 days.

The maintenance treatment that I have found to work is three times a week dose - 15ml three times a day. A 15ml dose straight after a race and then a full dose the very next day after racing - 15ml three times. Then back to the three times a week. If this is continued, the horses ulcers will be kept at bay and you will keep the horse up for a longer than normal campaign, as long as nothing else goes wrong of course!

The other thing to be aware of is, the spelled horse may very well still have ulcers when it returns from the paddock.

If the horse goes to the paddock with ulcers, the probability of it having ulcers when it returns to the stable are very high. One horse that comes to mind, spelled for 9 months, we scoped the horse and found grade three ulcers everywhere.

This was found to be the case in New Zealand as well as Australia. So the lush paddock will not help.

Also mares at stud have ulcers. Ranvet is about to do extensive research into this.

GEOFF DANIEL & HIS 5500KM RIDE ON HORSEBACK
by Francesca Coluzzi

The people of Tasmania have no axe to grind with Geoff Daniel. Although the designers of the National Bicentennial Trail may have left them off their map of Australia - Geoff has decided that you have not been right around Australia unless you have been around Tasmania as well.

Geoff's completion of the Bicentennial Trail, without Tasmania, is no mean feat - 5500 kms on horse back over all the harsh and varied terrain of the Australian outback.

Not easy for a 21 year old - but Geoff at 70 years plus has taken this in his stride.

He will complete the last leg of the journey on 28 February in 2002. After 5500 kms he is entitled to be a little saddle sore but he has been fit as a fiddle the whole time. The only minor problem was with his horses. With the stress associated with long float trips in hot conditions, the horses suffered dehydration. Ranvet provided Geoff with Electropaste. Almost Immediately, the horses benefited, even after the longest day in the float, Geoff said they are as fresh as a daisy.

Geoff spent 3 years preparing for his long journey and along the way his stamina and determination have impressed many people. As he is travelled around Tasmania others have now joined him, so they can be with him at the finish - if Geoff is any indication, life does begin at 60.

Below I've outlined some of the journey that Geoff has completed, the story is long and detailed, so I've only mentioned a few.

11th October 1998 - Set off on his journey from Healsville VIC

20th October 1998 - Climbed Howitt High Plains 1530m high, then went on to Omeo and across to the Snowy Mountains via Kosciusko and on to Mount Black Jack.

17th Feb 1999 - Rode over the Baal Bone Gap and the Woolomi National Park and onto the Sandstone Caves where it is said that Captain Starlight the bushranger hid a Stallion that he had stolen from Widden Stud, there is still a painting of the horse in the Caves.

3rd March 1999 - Just out of Aberdeen a thunderstorm hit with hail and Geoff was taken in by a stranger who told him to get "in the barn".

16th October 1999 - Crossed the Tropic of Capricorn got a little lost but found his way back onto the Trail.

20th October 1999 - Payne's Crossing - Fitzroy 34oC in the shade

24th October 1999 reached Marlborough in QLD and stayed with his son through the wet season.

2000 Geoff finished his ride in Cooktown, then he has come all the way back down Australia and just started the Tasmanian leg of the journey.

4th February 2002 - Geoff is now in Tasmania completing the last leg of the Trail and I said before he is the first person to do this, he is quite a character and has completed most of the Trail on his own along the way he has had riders join him on and off but at 70+ years of age he is doing something that people half his age have never tried.

I have plotted Geoff's journey on various state maps and it is only then that I realized what a true Legend Geoff Daniel is!

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