Runny bottoms! Probiotic suggestions please.

[Frank & Co.]

Both my horses have had loose droppings for a few days which I have put down to the warm/cold weather or change of hay, so not overly worried. But today one had bout of the runs with undigested chaff in. Bit better tonight. Have started sand out for a week in case it's sand ingestion but should I give probiotic too? Worming up to date and no obvious stress. Any suggestions? Thanks folks.

 

[rhino]

NAF Pink Powder! I swear by it

Hope horses are on the mend soon

 

[Mogg]

My sister's horse (15hh cob) had very loose droppings & gas following a change of hay. Vet recommended 6 tbsp of bog standard natural yoghurt mixed into feed for 10 days. After a few days of this his poo is lovely (well as lovely as poo gets )

 

[maxapple]

My sister's horse (15hh cob) had very loose droppings & gas following a change of hay. Vet recommended 6 tbsp of bog standard natural yoghurt mixed into feed for 10 days. After a few days of this his poo is lovely (well as lovely as poo gets )

My pony had the same after a change of hay. I put 1/2 a large tub of natural probiotic yoghurt in his feed daily and it cleared it uo within about 2 days x

 

[xmanda90x]

NAF Pink Powder! I swear by it

Ditto this, love the stuff

 

[Lollii]

Ditto this, love the stuff

And me, PP is great

 

[amandap]

Reduce grass and/or soak hay.

 

[howengold]

NAF Pink Powder! I swear by it

Hope horses are on the mend soon

ditto! I use it onmy veterans all the time xx

 

[blackbess78]

Used these probiotic syringes when my horse had similar problem -

Protexin Quick Fix
http://www.protexin.com/animal/product.php?id=26

They are easy to use, and worked for my horse.

 

[Silmarillion]

Another vote for Pink Powder as that's what I've used with great success in the past

I suspect any of the suggestions may help though - I've never thought of giving yoghurt before, might be worth starting with this as the cheaper option!

 

[Laafet]

Protexin is good but we use bog standard Tesco Natural yoghurt at work with the TB's and it works wonders and is much cheaper than most of the other 'equine' products available.

 

[Frank & Co.]

Thank you all - much appreciated. Checked with vet and they said pink powder too! Might try one on PP and one on yoghurt and see what happens.

 

[treacle_beastie]

Protexin worked well form mine too as a haylage balancer

 

[Daisy11]

Either pink powder or live yogurt

 

[Daisy11]

Either pink powder or live yogurt

 

[photo_jo]

A few years back one of the leading irish studs tried out all the various yoghurts on scouring foals and discovered that cheap own brand fruit yoghurt was just as good as natural probiotic etc etc. They tested the bacteria in the lab as well and came up with same result