Pro-biotic for horses??

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Perfect_Pirouette

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Also in vetinary but more traffic in here! Tried Pro-biotic yoghurt but he spat it out so short of syringing it to him daily which isn’t really feasible at the moment. So any ideas on any other things that are pro-biotic I could try?

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It was absolutely hilarious actually, honestly, you should’ve seen his face. He literally screwed up his face and made this ‘yak yak yak’ noise and spat it out. I was peeing myself. Then thought, right, that didn’t work, next :rolleyes:
 
leflynn said:
I feed mine Yea-sacc :)
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I could rave all day about yea-saac. I feed mine 10g a day, and he gets fed a small amount of fast fibre, a handful of chaff and roughly 10kg of hay a day and looks superb. I have never seen him look so well, his coat is gleaming! Also, he came off it for a few days as I ran out and feed shop had to order in, and the consistency of his droppings changed a lot. It definitely does something, I wouldn't go back to to feeding it now!
 
Does yoghurt contain useful horse pro-biotics?

I have used Naf Biotics for a stressy mare after worming to help her recover and also feed brewer's yeast to mine sometimes ... I wonder if it's just to help ME sleep better though, as the research is still unconvincing ...
 
bubbilygum said:
I could rave all day about yea-saac. I feed mine 10g a day, and he gets fed a small amount of fast fibre, a handful of chaff and roughly 10kg of hay a day and looks superb. I have never seen him look so well, his coat is gleaming! Also, he came off it for a few days as I ran out and feed shop had to order in, and the consistency of his droppings changed a lot. It definitely does something, I wouldn't go back to to feeding it now!
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My 20 year old gets yea sacc and completely agree with this - seems to keep her droppings consistent and she's in great condition (in very light work and is on circa 8 hours turn out (hay out as grazing now limited) and ad lib hay in the stable plus a couple of scoops of happy hoof). If I run out of yea sacc her droppings get less well formed in days so I'm not going to take her off it.
 
all supplements like pink powder and protexin are all just brewers yeast or yeasac (which is the same) much cheaper to buy on its own
 
Bio pro from feedmark is good. *whispers its on 3 for 2 at the mo*. I have also used pink powder successfully. I feed it when we transition to the summer paddocks from the winter,seems to help avoid grassy poos and bloated tum.
 
archiepoo said:
all supplements like pink powder and protexin are all just brewers yeast or yeasac (which is the same) much cheaper to buy on its own
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BY and YS aren't quite the same - YS is a live yeast. You can get similar results feeding either, but you need to feed more BY than YS.

I think this is because BY is a PREbiotic and YS a PRObiotic... In that YS has live bacteria, whereas BY just supports bacteria that is already there.
 
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