Brewers Yeast

[Snow Falcon]

I've been feeding this to my mare for a number of years as recommended by a vet due to suspected ulcers/possible digestive issues (scoped clear). I now see from another thread that research has suggested that it causes issues. EEEEEKKKK.

So what do you feed for good digestive health?

 

[TheMule]

That article didn’t have any sources as far as I could see and is written by someone who seems to have zero relevant scientific background, so I question its credibility.
The latest research I can find is here- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31429174/

 

[CanteringCarrot]

For digestive health, an actual probiotic might help. For a horse with ulcer concerns, keeping good quality forage in front of the horse helps, alfalfa with its calcium content can help, but mostly finding the cause of the ulcers, eliminating that, and treating the actual ulcers (gastro/ulcerguard).

The article on Brewers Yeast is mostly BS/very loose and includes one "source" where the data provided was misinterpreted and not applied correctly by the author on that website (not the person that did the research).

If the horse scoped clear, then the horse wouldn't have suspected ulcers? Unless you are referring to hind gut, then sucralfate (sp?) Would be worth a try.

What is giving you the impression of gut issues?

 

[ycbm]

That article didn’t have any sources as far as I could see and is written by someone who seems to have zero relevant scientific background, so I question its credibility.
The latest research I can find is here- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31429174/

That's about yea-sacc, the live version, which is fed at 15g a day and well proven.

I'm also concerned about the lack of citation in that article but it's talking about the stuff fed at 50g a day that's already been brewed with and then dried.

I'm going to swap back to yea-sacc for safety, does anyone in the Cheshire/Derbyshire/ Staffordshire area want to share a delivery of 5 25kg sacks with me at £60 a sack?
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[Pearlsacarolsinger]

I've been feeding this to my mare for a number of years as recommended by a vet due to suspected ulcers/possible digestive issues (scoped clear). I now see from another thread that research has suggested that it causes issues. EEEEEKKKK.

So what do you feed for good digestive health?[/QUOTE


I used to give my Draft mare BY but after a while she got skin rashes/bald patches from it . I think she had probably developed Cushings by that point which made her more reactive. She did test positive later. I gave her Aloe Vera juice to prevent gastric ulcers which I suspected that she had when I got her, as I knew she had been over-fed on a high strach/high sugar diet for the last 9 months. I found that I mustn't run out, or she became grumpy again within 48 hrs. When we were snowed in one year, I managed to find some AV tablets in the back of a cupboard, which I used as a stop-gap!