Pink Powders - How long to work

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I started my broodmare on NAF Pink Powder (had runny botty from switching from hay to haylage) - she's getting 2 scoops per day. How long does it take to have an effect if it is going to help?

I am sure it's only taken my mare 24hrs to have a positive effect! We're now onto day 3 of the course and her dung is 80% better already. Just wondering if it could really be the Pink Powder working so quickly, or simply be that her system has ajusted on its own to the new forage? Jolly impressive stuff if it IS the Pink Powder
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Naf Pink powder?
I put Ted ont he concerntrate rate. Expected it to take the normal 10-14 days and within 3 or 4 he was full of it, his muck was much healthier and he felt better in him self!

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I could be wrong but it was my understanding that feeding it at 2 scoops a day makes it a "balancer" and that you have to feed it at 4 scoops a day as a "probiotic" and to help with loose droppings.

My mare was quite loose when I first got her and I noticed an almost immediate improvement when I put her on Pink Powder. Glad your mare has picked up so quickly
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Yes NAF (I've amended the opening post!)

So, it might be the powders having an effect then?! Bought a 10 day tub and grumbled about the cost, but glad I bought it after all
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My mare suffers from loose..very loose droppings with good grass
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I found pink powder had little effect to help her, however, I can recommend Biotal Equine Gold, its almost miraculous and at £15.50 for a months worth is really good value, it also worked in 3 days....
 
Yes, I understand what you mean about the doseage rate. I'd initially read the instructions to mean that the 4 scoops-dose was only necessary as a 'loading dose' after antibiotics etc, so bought the small tub. Although, thinking about it later, I realised the effects of a course of antibiotics and switching forage will have similar upsetting effects on the gut flora. DUH!
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I suppose I could have started her on the 4 scoops straight away but I'd bought the small tub as a trial. This mare is a super-duper fussy eater and I started her on the 2 scoops to introduce the taste. She was/is suspicious of it, and has been slow to eat her feed with the powders in. I feed her at night so she has until morning to pick at it. The feed is gone my morning, and in the two days following starting the 2 scoops-dose I have noticed a significant change to her dung. Much improved.

Now I am not sure whether to up the dose to the 4 scoops or just keep on with the 2. That's why I was trying to gauge whether the 2 scoops could actually work that fast, or whether the rapid improvement was simply down to her adjusting on her own.
 
Oh, should ad that although her dung is a better texture - it smelled quite distinctly unpleasant whilst mucking out her box this morning. Hadn't smelled noticeably bad until this morning. Haven't altered anything in her diet apart from the switch to haylage but she's been on this for 10 days now. Could this smell also be the Pink Powder? Or something more ominous.....
 
I put my ned of protexin which has a higher number of bacteria in it ( 4 million more i think) and it took about 3 days to really notice the difference and the condition he has put on since then is amazing!
 
I bought the smaller 700g tub for £13.95 and gestimated it would last a Horse about 10 days. Was I wrong?!

Gosh, do hope so as would be a nice surprise to find out it lasts longer. I was reading the label in the shop and probably didn't calculate it right. Fingers crossed I was wrong (for once
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Hmmm I dunno but my protexin is £14 and lasts a month with one scoop a day! pink powder about same price I think I just prefer the protexin but Pink powder a good, relatively cheap way to get in the bacteria you want and those extra vits and mins!
 
The mare's on ad-lib haylage and 1.5 Kg D&H Mare & Youngstock Mix so does not really need any additional vits & mins. Just something to get her botty back to normal.
 
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