Saracen PRO YEAST 1KG

Suitable for:

• Any horse or pony to help maintain normal digestive efficiency
• Performance horses who are training, travelling & competing
• Those horses and ponies requiring hindgut support to maintain a normal environment
  

Benefits

• Helps to maintain optimum microbial health, activity and function
• Supports optimum fibre and feed digestion and efficiency of utilization
• Aids and supports the maintenance of a normal hindgut environment and stable pH
• Contains the highest CFU count per registered feed rate

Maintaining hindgut health is vital as horses rely on energy production through the fermentation of fibre in the hindgut. To maximise energy extraction from fibre a symbiotic relationship with the hindgut microorganisms needs to be achieved.

These microorganisms require an anaerobic (without oxygen) environment with a pH of 6.5‐7 to thrive
and when the environment is not at these ideal conditions, this can have a detrimental effect on health
and performance.

Risk factors include:

• High starch diets
• Changes to feed and forage
• Rich grazing
• Stressful events
• Lack of forage/fibre

All of these things can lead to the pH of the hindgut being lowered and the proliferation of lactic acid-producing microorganisms in favour of fibre digesting microbes which leads to a change in the microorganism populations in the hindgut. This change exacerbates the reduction of hindgut pH as higher levels of lactic acid are produced and this then becomes a cycle, making it difficult for the horse to rectify hindgut health.

At a pH of 5 or lower hindgut acidosis can occur, and you may see symptoms such as:

• Poor appetite
• Colic
• Stereotypic behaviours such as cribbing

However, you may also see no symptoms even if your horse is experiencing hindgut issues.

Ingredients

• Calcium Carbonate
• 4b1710 Saccharomyces cerevisiae MUCL 39885 (Vistacell)

Nutrition

Fibre 0.6%

Protein 7.0%

Oil 0.4%

Ash 81.2%

Calcium 32%

Phosphorus  0.16%

Sodium 0.63%

Moisture 2.6%

Feeding rate:

10g per day