Gut health for horses

Digest-Easi is a digestive aid and mycotoxin binder for horses. It helps to maintain great gut health and encourage better utilization of nutrients and fibre, so your horse gets all the goodness out of their feed.

With a proven prebiotic to keep the hindgut microbes happy and healthy, a proven digestive enzyme to help break down sugars and starches and gut conditioners to soothe and restore a healthy foregut. The ingredients in Digest-Easi PLUS will also calm a grumpy gut, soothe the digestive system and provide assistance to the small intestine aiding digestion.

Horses benefit from Digest-Easi PLUS added daily to their food! By supporting the gut, hindgut and digestive function your horse will feel calmer with fewer girth issues and stomach upsets.

Digest-Easi PLUS contains in addition Mycofix, a proven and effective MYCO-TOXIN binder to lessen the impact of mycotoxins. Mycofix is registered for use in horses and does not bind to nutrients or affect the diet in any way.

Digest-Easi PLUS adds comfort to the gut and improves gastric function. It also helps control SPOOKY behaviour with an effective mycotoxin binder profile whilst assisting gut health and digestion. Add daily to your horse’s meal, even fussy eaters will enjoy the highly palatable natural (100 %) liquorice taste of Digest-Easi PLUS!

When Digest-Easi PLUS is fed with a high quality, fibre diet, see hoof health improve, coats shine, manure becomes better formed (no more loose manure) and your horse is much happier, healthier and calmer! This is because Digest-Easi PLUS enhances your horse’s gut and digestive process so feeding becomes efficient, nutrients are better absorbed and your feed bill can be reduced.

HORSES feel GOOD on DIGEST-EASI PLUS!!! Try our fortified total gut health blend! We pack a lot of active ingredient into our 50 gram low dose scoop! Offering excellent value!

 TIPS TO AVOID GUT DISCOMFORT

***A pain in the hindgut ***

The focus is often on the horse’s stomach which produces acid and is also commonplace for ulcers.

However, don’t forget the hindgut! This is the large colon where highly specialized fibre microbes live, and they don’t take kindly to sugars being dumped here!

In fact, these microbes are so specialized they are only equipped to break down fibre. In the event of a horse eagerly grazing fresh grass or stressed (fructan) pastures – a source of indigestible sugar. This sugar content flows into the hindgut and spells danger for microbes – causing a pH shift and death to microbes. This will equal a bout of gut pain for your horse.

This stomach ache (digestive upset) causes grumpy behaviour, pain and discomfort. When large numbers of microbes die off, the hindgut (colon) becomes acidic, causing sensitivity, acidosis (acid conditions), or worse laminitis or colic.

This acidity comes from the dying microbes. This acidity in turn causes runny manure, pain, and if severe can lead to diarrhoea, and hindgut acidosis. When prolonged this condition can cause ulceration of the colon.

FAST REMEDY – feed plenty of fibre! Feed hay!

Couple this with Digest-Easi PLUS -, which is packed full of proven ingredients and goodness to slow the rush of feed, aid the breakdown of sugars and starch and settle the digestive tract.

***A pain in the hindgut *** points to remember

1. The stomach produces acid to break down food (a potential area for ulcers)
2. The hindgut doesn’t produce acid but turns acid from sugar arriving here (potential area for ulcers)
3. Help the stomach and the hindgut to keep your horse happy and healthy
4. Always start with fibre! – This will buffer the stomach and feed the hindgut microbes.

Hay, chaff or ensiled forage is the easiest way to soak up that acidity! Make it the base of your feeds and feed before riding or travelling!   Feed in conjunction with Digest-Easi PLUS.

***A pain in the hindgut***

Management tips to help out THE HIND GUT

1. Feed rapid growing spring grass in moderation.
2. Always ensure access to hay. This will buffer and slow the rush of feed through the digestive system.
3. Digest-Easi PLUS slows the rush of feed, has digestive enzymes, and a proven prebiotic to maintain hindgut health. In addition, a proven mycotoxin binder complex to capture ingested moulds.
4. A hindgut buffer such as Equi-shure that survives the stomach acid and that is released in the hindgut which also helps to keep conditions neutral.