Brewers yeast users.. help!!

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Sambo

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I have 2 Welsh D's who both react badly to midgie bites and also suffer with sweet itch... i have been told Brewers Yeast and marmite can help.

How much brewers yeast should you feed? And is it better in powder or tablet form?

Thank you!
 
I buy mine in sort of flakes, from the local supermarket and feed a small handful, or large pinch, each night with garlic as well. I find it stays much fresher this way. I also stopped feeding biotin as the yeast has plenty in it. So two jobs in one!
 
Just introduce in very small amounts as they either love the taste or refuse to eat their feed. You can build it up once its accepted, I feed about a tablespoon in each feed. You could try a bit of dried mint if you need to mask the smell.
 
I buy from my local feedstore and feed the recommended ammount for size, which is a full scoop which is provided with the tub. Whatever you do, don't feed garlic as it makes sweetitch worse.
 
I tried feeding mine a marmite sandwich, it was a comedy moment....he obviously is not a lover like me!
 
We mix ours into the feed as a powder... Just be warned- dog's are serious lovers of the stuff too! Or it might just be our very dimwitted puppy? If you don't keep an eye on him when you make the feeds up this is what you end up facing:
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Our horse scoffs it down too- mix it in with sloppy sugarbeet and he slurps away quite merrily. Think we get ours from our local feed merchant?
 
Thanks guys!!

I got some today from Holland and Barrets - and also got some marmite!

Both of them would lick the marmite out of the bottle! so that was a good start...

I put a tablespoon of brewers yeast in their dinner watered down, and also a tablespoon of marmite - i had to break the marmite up, but they ate both!

I don't give sugarbeet - otherwise that would have been perfect! They are both barefoot, so try to keep sugar to a minimum!

Fingers crossed it works!!!!
 
Sambo if they won't eat it dry then they might eat it in speedibeet which has no sugar. It's much more expensive than ordinary beet but you won't need much just to stick the brewers yeast to. My big horses have 50g a day each and their feet improved tons, we're barefooters too!

What a waste of Marmite!! Send it to me :)
 
Thanks!

He did eat it eventually, and my friends mare couldn't get enough of it!!

I will try it dry tomorrow, he doesnt normally like watered down feeds so could have been that too...

Will give speedi beet a go if all else fails!!
 
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