The reason why you should never train your horse on an empty stomach
Us humans can be influenced by starting the day on an empty stomach. But is this the same with horses? One of the members of Morgan Lashley’s online training wondered and Morgen let her experience speak. Horses have a very different gastrointestinal tract than humans. The big difference is that the stomach acid isn’t produced at the moment that horses are eating, like it’s with humans. Our stomach acid only gets released when we’re eating and it’s absorbed by our food.With horses the stomach acid is constantly produced, which has to be neutralized.
This is done by the saliva that horses use to swallow their hay. Because horses has to chew more on hay, there’s also more saliva produced, which neutralizes the stomach acid and protects the stomach to stomach ulcers. Stomach ulcers can be caused by stomach acid. Because when a horse moves without food in his stomach to absorb the stomach acid, the acid can splash against the stomach wall. This can cause irritations and can eventually lead to stomach ulcers.”Splashing stomach acid in an empty stomach can give irritations on the stomach wall and eventually lead to stomach ulcers.”