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have a stressy mare who is very hard to keep weight on,suspect long standing gut damage was a neglect case as a baby.she has always had loose pooh and is very windy.she is fed ad lib hay and small feeds x4 of alfa a oil and alfa beet and pink powder when she is very loose and feelgood 30 digestive supplementt daily.has anyone used any other digestive supplements they would recomend
 
We use Cider vinegar, it can make them a little hungrier but has helped with our stressy mare and one of the older ponies. We buy it in Makro because its cheapest there and put it in their feed morning and night. Pink powder and oil didn't help my mare at all.

As it can't really harm them and is meant to work in a natural way, we like it. I've never been a fan of over complicating feed as we have found this can cause its own problems and manufacturers of feed seem to have a solution for everything (at a cost). We believe in the Kiss rule - Keep it simple Stu...! and small feeds.

I'll now wait to be shot down by people who don't agree or feed lots of suppliments to their horses!!! Each one to their own though!

There have been loads of postings about brewers yeast recently - not had any experience of this myself but some people were raving about its calming qualities???
 
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I'm coming round to your way of thinking. My horse had colic last week, and I have cut her feed right back to basics, on a base of soaked fibre nuts. All the supplements (arthritis related) are on hold until such time as I think she needs them (if ever). The weird thing is ... she seems perkier than ever!
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I have a very stressy mare who've i've always struggled to keep weight on, but i few months ago i put her on cider vinegar and brewers yeast, and she is now far less stressy and starting to put weight on.
 
Its interesting to hear about the brewers yeast - I haven't tried it yet, partially because of the sucess we have had with old and young alike and cider vinegar.

I'm convinced with the more that we complicate their feed, the more problems we have. I'm also naturally suspicious of anything that costs me money - I know I have short arms and empty pockets but I do question whether we get sucked in to feeding them too much C--P, just like we do with ready meals and e numbers in humans?

We also use homeopathic remedies to help with detoxing and have found this to be a literal life saver. Our 40+ old Mare and her son 23yo, are perhaps only still here because of them (cushings/arthritis and laminitis). It also can compliment whatever else you are doing - Rhux Tox and Nux Vomica - one for detox, the other for the liver, you can get them in the supermarket/chemist in little green tubes.

Not everyones cup of tea, I know, but it has worked for us for the last 25+ years and for our cows when we had them.
 
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