Pro Gut Balancer powders

Modern horses and ponies are subject to many stresses and challenges, including moving from yards to new feed sources and management, strenuous competition and training programs, domestic and international travel to maintain distance, and high-starch diets to provide energy. This disruption can negatively impact performance in many ways, from a subtle decrease in energy production or a reduction in immunity, to a decrease in gut pH and disruption of the metabolic and immune systems, but certainly to a significant decline in health, well-being, and performance.

Pro-Gut Balancer is a unique combination of prebiotics and probiotics, along with a mannan 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 gut health:

1. * Probiotics (Greek for "for life") Pro Gut Balancer contains the only live yeast approved for use in horses, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, with the highest number of live colony-forming units (cfu) per serving. This live yeast plays several vital roles:
* By aiding fiber digestion, they use their hyphae to help break down the fiber particles. This allows fiber-digesting bacteria to colonize and digest the fiber more easily, producing volatile fatty acids (VFAs), which are a vital energy source for the horse.
* Oxygen scavenging pockets in the gut, which would otherwise be toxic to many of the beneficial microbes.
* By outcompeting lactic acid-producing microbes and encouraging the growth of those that can utilize lactic acid, it helps reduce the likelihood of a drop in the pH of the large intestine that can upset the delicate balance in the microbiome.

2. Prebiotics are typically fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS), usually obtained from sugar beets, but also found naturally in a number of fruit vegetables such as chicory, onions, asparagus roots, garlic, Jerusalem artichokes, leeks and bananas.
Unlike most carbohydrates, these FOS are largely unaffected by stomach acid and other digestive enzymes, but are instead selectively fermented by many of the beneficial bacteria in the hindgut. In other words, they act as a food source and selectively promote the growth and activity of beneficial gut bacteria that are associated with health and well-being.

3. Mannan-oligosaccharides (MOS): It is obtained from the cell walls of yeasts, and contains beta-glucans in addition to mannans, acting as a prebiotic.

Pro-Gut Balancer should be administered 7 to 10 days before, during, and 7 to 10 days after any stressful activity that may negatively affect the microbiome, such as long-distance travel, moving, broodmares going to stud, young stock beginning sale preparation, or after an illness or injury.

Elite competition and racehorses, with ongoing strenuous training and competition programs, can benefit from long-term daily use.

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

Key ingredients per 30g serving

Probiotic (Saccharomyces cerevisiae MUCL 39885)2.5 x 1010cfu
Prebiotic fructo-oligosaccharide (FOS)10g
Mannan oligosaccharide 2.5g
Omega fatty acids 32.2g

Additives per kg:

COMPOSITION: Whole micronized flax seeds (whole fat 35% oil), fructooligosaccharides (35.1%), dehydrated alfalfa, yeast products (mannan oligosaccharides MOS) (8.5%)

ADDITIVES (PER kg):

Zootechnical additives: 4b1710 Saccharomyces cerevisiae MUCL 89885 8.3 x 1011 cfu

Sensory additives: 2b Mixture of flavoring compounds (apple) 10g

Technological additives: E321 Butylhydroxytoluene (BHT) 100mg

Analytical components:

Crude Protein 15.0%
Crude fat 14.0%
Crude fiber 5.2%
Raw ash 5.0%
Sodium (salt) <1.0%
Magnesium 3.9%
Sodium (salt) 0.1%
Omega Fatty Acids 37.3%
Sugar 2.4%

For a 500 kg horse during peak break: 30 g per day. For maintenance: 15 g per day. Maximum: 60 g per day. 30 g measure (approx.) enclosed.