I'm finding with my new "project" 6 year old gelding/hard keeper that he will eat his oats and Empower (Nutrena's basically rice bran pellets) and some shredded beet pulp, but does not eat the quantities of hay (whether alfalfa, bermuda or orchard grass) my other endurance horses eat. (Teeth have been recently checked, floated.) Will probiotics help him want to eat more hay??
----- Original Message ----- From: Susan Garlinghouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 11:26 AM Subject: Re: [RC] probiotic help wanted > > > >Okay, it's the annual contest to get more calories into >my daughters mare > than she burns; hard keeper mare, >greyhound build. Horse has 3 kinds of > hay in front of >her, perpetual tub of beetpulp, grain and oil, teeth > >checked, > > I don't think probiotics are the silver bullet to *every* hard keeper > problem, but they do seem to help a fair percentage of the time. I've > always used Fastrack or Yea-Sacc 1026 (which is hard to get OTC but is in > Grand Vite and a few commercial feeds), but I couldn't say there are clearly > superior standouts. I like Fastrack because it has a few more species in it > than just Lactobacillus. > > Good luck. :-) > > Susan G > > > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. > Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= > > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
