pro-biotics after antibiotics?

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my mare has just been on high dose of anti biotics for 14 days due to a bad sinus infection (that is hopefully cleared but if not she is off to have bone removed as both upper and lower pouches were full and infected :() and only a week before that she was on a 5 days course for a cut (yes she is jinxed at the mo the poor girly :()

anyway - she's fed spillers conditioning chaff, spillers balancer, small amount of conditioning mix, cooked linseed and has ad lib grass and hay (lives out 24/7) plus access to a hymilaya (sp? :o) salt lick.

i do not think that the original balancer has pro-biotics (only the performance one states probiotics in the marketing blurb) - so is it worth giving her a course of something to get her gut back on track?

or as she is looking fine, shiney coat, poos fine etc do i just not worry? I've not worried before for anti b's for small cuts etc - but this has been a long course plus only just after another short course.

thoughts pls :)
 
I would give a probiotic after antibiotics as the antibiotic will kill of the good bacteria in the gut & a probiotic will boost the good bacteeria back up to a degree. I do the same for the dogs & people.
 
thanks guys

something i've never bothered with before but then again i come form a time when probiotics were not heard of for humans either ;)

but like to keep up with ideas :)
 
criso said:
So did mine but can difficult to get a pot of yoghurt into a reluctant horse
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Yup did not work to well here too although mixing it with speedibeet was the most sucessful I just buy Protexin it's easier.
I do give Protexin after antibiotics if their droppings have been loose and after worming.
 
Mine both loved it :D ! Tesco non-flavoured. Maybe yours would have preferred peach or raspberry Criso :D ?


I started doing it after a horse I had who used to smell particularly sweet (even the OH remarked on it :) ) smelled rank after he had antibiotics. Him, not his poo.
 
cptrayes said:
Mine both loved it :D ! Tesco non-flavoured. Maybe yours would have preferred peach or raspberry Criso :D ?

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Tried all sorts added to it. This was before we went sugar free and even mixed in old fashioned cane molasses that someone on the yard had and even then not more than a cursory lick and a polite no thanks.

This is the horse that eats nearly anything and hoovers all the minerals in tiny amounts of feed that other people have problems with but every so often he'll take against a food and then it's not up for negotiation.

Ever tried pouring yoghurt down the throat of an uncooperative tb?
 
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