Brewers Yeast

[Dreckly]

Evening all,

I am going to give Brewers Yeast a try for my boy's sweet itch - I have seen it and Marmite mentioned in little on here lately. Can anyone tell me where I can get it - I tried Tesco today or am I totally wrong and I would never find it in a supermarket!

 

[piebaldsparkle]

Feed merchants

 

[Walder]

feed merchants do it - i use simple systems - you can buy it online i think - just google x

 

[Spot_the_Risk]

Also sold by Equus Health, http://www.equushealth.org.uk/

I haven't tried it for my two sweetitchers - one mild one extreme, am using Brinicombes Think Fly granules since mid June and it is definitely working, flying things just don't land on the horses anymore, or if they do they take off again straight away. Sadly, horse flies seem immune to it (aren't they to everything except a hard slap?)
http://www.brinicombe-equine.co.uk/equine/products/supplements/think/think_fly_granules.php

I have no connetion with either company, except that we stock their (and others) products in our shop.

 

[Dreckly]

Thanks everyone - what a mine of information this forum is!!

 

[flyingfeet]

If you cannot get to a horsey shop, Holland and Barrett also stock the powder. I think £3 ish for 500g, so more expensive than buying in bulk!

I feed gold labels, but that's because we have a distributor in our village so I get it in 5kg's at a time.

 

[MagicMelon]

Also farm shops - they usually do it in bulk but you can often ask them if they'll put however much you want into a bag/tub. Much cheaper than buying actual horsey stuff!

 

[Tharg]

How does it work?, does it make the blood unpalatable to the horse or do they smell different.

 

[flyingfeet]

Yes it works

I can prove it - when I went away for 3 days my parents forgot to feed it

Dinks sheath swelled up and he had pin pricks of blood all over it (and that's with nettex or sudocrem twice a day).

I now feed two measures (looks not dissimilar to a cough medicine measure) and get no blood on his sheath. However I still fly spray and nettex, sudocrem or metanium his sheath twice a day.

 

[ruscara]

My horse was one of the very few on the yard who didn't itch. Then, a couple of weeks ago, I went to get more Brewers' Yeast and they'd run out, so I didn't get any, and now my horse is going mad rubbing his bum raw. Co-incidence?