Brewers yeast?

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My horse started to get Sweetitch at the end of last summer. I used a sweetitch rug and Nettex Itch Stop cream to help and will be putting the rug back on soon.

She is a good doer and I would like to start feeding Brewers yeast. How much should I feed and what would be good to mix it with? She currently gets a small handful of Spillers High Fibre nuts when she comes in - but these won't hide the brewers yeast.
 
I use Marmite instead of brewers yeast (same active ingredient) With the marmite i just feed a good sized blob/tea spoonful. Originally i was putting it on a piece of bread but soon realized he would like it off the spoon or bottom of the bucket.
 
Hi there, we feed brewers yeast and have done for quite a while, both individually and as part of a supplement that includes brewers yeast , seaweed and linseed.

It is quite powdery so you might be better mixing it with a chaff and a little water rather than it coating a slightly mollased mix.
Otherwise, we feed simple system horse feeds and our little shetland gets sweet itch so he has instant linseed which i add some water to and form a little ball - he gets this as a treat, but the linseed is great for the skin and inflammation - you could add the brewers yeast to that.
Brewers yeast smells of fish and chips to me so it can be quite pongy so it depends on how fussy an eater you have!
 
My good doer/fussy eater/sweet itch mare (sounds like a dream!) gets it in a handful of unmolassed chaff for tea. She gets about 30g a day in this mixed up with a little water (and has for a month now as a ramp up to midge season) and I will prob up it by another 10g at the end of feb. I started at 10g, then went up after a couple of weeks as she was a little suspicious of it at first, but she eats right up now and enjoys it. She also gets about 1 teaspoon full of microionized linseed in her tea (which she loves!!) as I believe it is good for their skin. No garlic at all though!

P.S. I get mine from natural horse supplies as it is the cheapest place I can find it, unless you buy it in 20kg sacks from charnwood milling.
 
I get mine from natural horse supplies too, feed it twice a day in a chaff and balancer feed (about a tablespoonful per feed) and it has made the world of difference to my 13.2hh pony's sweetitch (it's practically non-existant now). I started with Marmite and banana sandwiches (yum!!), but this way is cheaper.
 
Does BY help to keep little biting insects off then? I have just started using it on one of mine to help improve her coat but if it helps with the insect issue also they can all have it!!!? :)
 
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