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Probiotics Make a Healthy Horse
There is still much confusion in the world yet about probiotics and how they are useful in maintaining our horse’s health. What are probiotics and what do they do?
The term probiotics comes from the Greek word “for life”. Thus antibiotics mean “not for life” as anti means “against”. Probiotics are living microorganisms, or beneficial bacteria that when ingested help the digestive system maintain a state of balance. Addition of probiotics to your horse’s diet results in the promotion of a number of health functions, including enhanced digestive support and reducing colic and parasite infestation.
As far back as Roman times people utilized fermented foods like yogurt and sauerkraut, both as food preservatives to limit spoilage, and to support their intestinal and overall health. These people knew they felt better if they consumed these foods, they just didn’t know why or what was in them to improve their health. If the Romans knew what to do, why is it today that people are skeptical of probiotics and their importance in our horse’s health (as well as yours)?
The processed feed diets so often fed to horses in most cases can upset the balance of bacteria needed for the support of your digestive tract. Also, many feed products are being pasteurized or have high heat added in the production process, destroying the helpful bacteria your horse needs for promoting good digestive health. Horses are natural grazers, and today most spend their time in a box stall on a feeding schedule and often intense training and showing plans. All these abnormalities to a horse mess with his normal intestinal processes. Maintaining great digestive health is akin to maintaining great overall health. When your horse is in great shape and overall health, your horse will naturally feel better and perform better and live a disease free life.
Did you know?
* About 80% of the immune system resides in your digestive tract.
* 500 species of bacteria, over one trillion live inside the digestive tract
* The weight of this bacteria constitutes about two to three pounds.
* Some of these bacteria are referred to as “good” and some as “bad”. The ideal ratio between bacteria is 85% good and 15% bad.
What sorts of factors influence the balance between good and bad bacteria? Diet, geographic location, age, stress, and health issues are some of the key factors. The ration between good bacteria and bad bacteria is one of the most critical factors of optimal horse health. Helpful bacteria prevent the growth of undesirable bacteria by competing for both nutrition and attachment sites in the tissues of the colon.
Therefore, keeping the right balance of bacteria becomes critical in supporting your horse’s immune system and keeps the digestive tract functioning smoothly. This reduces the chance of upset stomachs, bellyaches and colic. Probiotics are important and should become an essential part of your daily feeding program.
About the Author
Audra Jensen has 65 head of horse and is concerned about maintaining their health. For more information about probiotics: totalsupplements
equine studies?
I really need some help. I’m a junior in high school, and I want to spend the rest of my life working with horses. I have a 3.2 GPA, and I’m 35 out of a class of 248. I’ve been working in barns since I was in 8th grade, over the summers. I did one summer for free. The other two I spent mucking stalls, turning in/out, feeding, and grooming. I want to train/breed/groom/board. I’m planning on majoring in Equine Studies. I was looking at UCONN in CT, but then I came across Wilson College in PA. The tuition there is 34,000 a year, approximately. Does the equine industry really care where you graducate from? Or is what matters how well you do and who you apprentice under? I don’t want to come out of college with debts I can never pay off. I need a little help, and some guidance. On how to go about all of this, what to do. What will get me somewhere. What won’t screw me over in the end. I’m planning on moving down to North Carolina when I get out of college. If that makes helps any.
Don’t mean to burst your bubble but I’ve heard equine studies doesn’t offer very good jobs after graduating in the UK. I’m planning on doing equine science and specialising in nutrition or doing a course in journalism at the same time so I can write for a magasine on equine science based topics.
Apparantly the best and well paid job you can get is still just mucking out and sweeping floors.
However I’ve just gone to look at my equine careers booklet that I got from a university and it tells you what some of the BEST careers are that you can get with equine studies and equine science.
There are only 4 people in the booklet that did just equine studies and their jobs are:
stud stallion groom
assistant director at blue star
carriage driving yard manager
rights of way executive for the british horse society.
Okay so they’re not BAD jobs but listen to some of the ones people have got doing equine science or equine science AND equine studies:
higher education lecturer
stud owner, journalist and lecturer (one person)
PhD students in veterinary medicine
PhD students in biochemistry and molecular biology
research assistant
Yard managers
Subjectarea leader
Lecturer
Manager of Mammalian genetics unit
study technician
PhD student and lecturer
Editorial assistant
stud secretary
As you can see the jobs from equine science mainly involve less “dirty-work” and are probably better paid.
So if you are interested and good at science as well I think you should look into doing equine science. I’m UK based so I’m not too sure about some of the things you’ve asked!
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