Gastro-intestinal program

As a horse owner, you decide what your horse eats and can therefore have a
decisive influence on its health.

If the horse is exposed to contaminated feed, the healthy intestinal flora is continually weakened. It can take months or even years for the horse to show clinical symptoms, even if things have already got out of hand subclinically.

The first non-specific signs of reduced intestinal flora often appear in the form of skin and respiratory disorders or leg pain. Signs of ineffective intestinal flora often appear during the moulting period. Coat change takes time? Is the horse prone to allergies, infections or faecal water? Has the horse inexplicably lost muscle mass over the winter? Here, we can assume that the intestinal flora has been damaged, for example by having eaten oats, hay or silage contaminated by fungi and bacteria. The digestive tract, with its important functions in the immune system, and the liver as an organ of detoxification, are under enormous strain. There is often a feeling of helplessness, the causes are not obvious and the symptoms are often misinterpreted. In most cases, this is referred to as a “non-specific allergy”.
What the horse owner can do:
• Use the best quality hay
• Aim for long feeding periods (hay net)
• Feed the horse individually and according to its needs
• Feed high-quality nutrients (minerals, vitamins and trace elements).

Many of the remedies on the market seem too one-sided to guarantee effective, long-term help. Attempts are often made to combat gastric acidity with a proton pump inhibitor. The aim should not only be to combat the symptoms, but also to eliminate the causes once and for all. We can only achieve this if we adapt the feed to the horse’s natural, individual needs.