Please recommend a digestive supplement

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What digestive supplements are on the market?

Horse gets loose droppings from haylage in winter.

Have used haylage balancer and pink powder in the past with little effect. Currently on equine gold that seemed to work for a while but now horse scouring badly again. At end of tether with it x
 
Good quality Hay, best and cheapest digestive suplement:D. Seriously,feed some hay as well. This will alter the ratio of easily digested fibre to slower breakdown fibre,it will help to reduce scouring. If you start adding fancy suplements you will totaly complicate the problem. The problem of haylege is that it is "too much of a good thing"
 
I would change to hay if you can. Not all horses get on with haylage and it is obviously upsetting your horse's tummy.

Another vote for Brewers Yeast, cheap and effective, but I would still change to hay and feed this as well.
 
I'm feeding about 60/40 haylage/hay this winter rather than 100% haylage (would normally feed all haylage) and my horse is much better on it. His bed is far drier plus he gets grumpy on all haylage so he's much nicer to deal with now :)

I'm giving him Yea-Sacc (get it from The Metabolic Horse website) at the moment, to help his digestion. He won't have that all year round though, just when needed. He also has brewer's yeast but gets that every day.

I also like Protexin Gut Balancer and Baileys Digest Plus, if you want a branded supplement, but TBH I'll stick with just Yea-Sacc now.
 
Thanks for all that advice, hay been ordered to mix in with haylage so hoping that will do the trick and i can cut out any digestive supplements x
 
My gelding had this 4 weeks ago from haylage.

I would suggest PINK POWDER. how much did you give??? I always find it works given correct dose.

once the richness from the grass has gone you can try introduce haylage again.

This normally happens when to much sugar still in grass and to much in haylage = overdose.

I would give wet hay till grass is less rich , its what I am doing, as my boy got nappy rash down his bum from the diarrhea from the haylage,
 
A lady at my yard swears by bran for keeping one of hers from having a runny bum. Sounds slightly counter productive considering its traditional use but a handful of bran in each feed keeps his droppings firm. She once stopped feeding it and the problem came back so it definately works for him :)
 
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