Terri
Well-known member
I have a quiestion about the article that came up when I got on the horse pages. I tried to e-mail the author, but It keeps getting returned as an invalid address.
This is part of the article.
(If a horse has been ill, and antibiotics have been used
to rid the horse of persistent infection, the drugs may
have killed off the beneficial intestinal bacteria as well
as the bad. (The good bacteria, present in the gut of
all horses, help prevent invasion by harmful bacteria or
fungi. In addition, they help the horse gain the maximum
nourishment from his food.) Eating manure may help the
horse replenish the good bacteria. )
Well,
I have a mare that was starved and abandonded. I have had her for 14 months now and she had gained a little over 400lbs and still needs a little more. (mostly muscle over the rump and back). She was on antibiotics in oct and then again in Jan. for pnemonia. My vet gave me some tubes of probotics but she wouldn't take them. (She is much bigger and stronger than me now.) I bought some of the powder probotics to put in her feed. My vet gave me 2 tubes and said to give her 1/3 tube a
day, so I gave her the powder for 6 days. Her manure looked good for about a week and then went back to the way it was. So, what I need to know is, how long do I need to give it to her. She is on Nutrena Prime and pasture, she won't eat hay at all. Only the leaves out of alfalfa. I haven't had a chance to talk to my vet yet,due to a couple of deaths in his family. This mare has had a problem with her digestive system since I
brought her home. Aside from being starved she was full of tapeworms and when she would go, it looked more like a pile a colt would leave, not a 15 hand mare. She was given mineral oil once for compaction and is now on a laxative (sand clear) once a month because its sandy here. And I'm parinoid now about colic.She has been wormed for the tapeworms twice this year, once in Jan and once in Feb. She was also wormed for them in Oct, but tested positive for them in Jan.
I would appreciate any input. Thank you.
This is the email address listed for the article. If you can get it to work please forward this. Mayby its just my computer. We had a virus in Jan and its been kind of funny ever since.
[email protected] <[email protected]>
This is part of the article.
(If a horse has been ill, and antibiotics have been used
to rid the horse of persistent infection, the drugs may
have killed off the beneficial intestinal bacteria as well
as the bad. (The good bacteria, present in the gut of
all horses, help prevent invasion by harmful bacteria or
fungi. In addition, they help the horse gain the maximum
nourishment from his food.) Eating manure may help the
horse replenish the good bacteria. )
Well,
I have a mare that was starved and abandonded. I have had her for 14 months now and she had gained a little over 400lbs and still needs a little more. (mostly muscle over the rump and back). She was on antibiotics in oct and then again in Jan. for pnemonia. My vet gave me some tubes of probotics but she wouldn't take them. (She is much bigger and stronger than me now.) I bought some of the powder probotics to put in her feed. My vet gave me 2 tubes and said to give her 1/3 tube a
day, so I gave her the powder for 6 days. Her manure looked good for about a week and then went back to the way it was. So, what I need to know is, how long do I need to give it to her. She is on Nutrena Prime and pasture, she won't eat hay at all. Only the leaves out of alfalfa. I haven't had a chance to talk to my vet yet,due to a couple of deaths in his family. This mare has had a problem with her digestive system since I
brought her home. Aside from being starved she was full of tapeworms and when she would go, it looked more like a pile a colt would leave, not a 15 hand mare. She was given mineral oil once for compaction and is now on a laxative (sand clear) once a month because its sandy here. And I'm parinoid now about colic.She has been wormed for the tapeworms twice this year, once in Jan and once in Feb. She was also wormed for them in Oct, but tested positive for them in Jan.
I would appreciate any input. Thank you.
This is the email address listed for the article. If you can get it to work please forward this. Mayby its just my computer. We had a virus in Jan and its been kind of funny ever since.
[email protected] <[email protected]>