Equine America Equine America - Pro Gut Balancer - 450gr

Modern horses and ponies face numerous stresses and challenges - including relocating yards to new management and forage sources, demanding training and competition schedules, national and international travel to shows, and starch-rich diets to provide energy. This disruption can negatively impact performance in several ways, ranging from subtle decreases in energy production or reduced immunity, to decreased intestinal pH and disruption of the metabolic and immune system, but certainly to a significant decrease in health, well-being, and performance.

Pro-Gut Balancer is a unique combination of pre- and probiotics, along with a mannane oligosaccharide (MOS), to help maintain the health of the microbial population in light of the many challenges facing modern horses and ponies.

Benefits of Pro Gut Balancer:

• Pro-Gut Balancer provides a unique triple-action approach to maintaining intestinal health.
• Probiotics (from the Greek "for life") Pro Gut Balancer contains the only live yeast approved for use in horses, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with the highest number of colony-forming units (CFUs) per serving. This live yeast plays several essential roles:
• Aids in fiber digestion by using its hyphae to help separate the fiber particle. This allows fiber-digesting bacteria to colonize and digest fibers more easily, producing volatile fatty acids (VFAs) that are a vital energy source for the horse.
• Flushes oxygen pockets in the intestine, which would otherwise be toxic to many beneficial microbes.
• Outcompetes lactic acid-producing microbes, and encourages the growth of those that can use lactic acid, thereby reducing the likelihood of a drop in pH in the hindgut that can disrupt the delicate balance of the microbiome.

Prebiotics are typically fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), usually obtained from sugar beet, but are also naturally present in a number of fruit and vegetable sources such as chicory, onions, asparagus roots, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, leeks, and bananas.

Unlike most carbohydrates, these FOS are largely unaffected by gastric acid and other digestive enzymes, but instead they are selectively fermented by many beneficial bacteria in the hindgut. In other words, they act as a food source for, and selectively encourage the growth and activity of beneficial gut bacteria that are associated with health and well-being.

Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS): Obtained from yeast cell walls, contains beta-glucans as well as mannans, acting as a prebiotic.

Pro-Gut Balancer should be fed for 7 to 10 days before, during, and for 7 to 10 days after any stressful activity that could negatively impact the microbiome, such as long-distance travel, moves, broodmares going to the stud, young stock starting sales preparation, or after illness or injury.

Elite competitions and racehorses, with intensive training and competition programs, may benefit from longer-term daily use.

A complementary feed for horses and ponies, as part of a balanced diet.