Don’t Let Poor Digestive Tract Health Sideline Your Horse
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Horses with a healthy GI tract digest their feed more effectively so they absorb additional nutrients. They are less likely to suffer from digestive imbalances resulting in colic, diarrhea and ulcers.
Providing horses with ample opportunity to graze or offering free-choice hay is one of the best ways to keep their digestive tract healthy.
An unhealthy digestive tract can lead to subtle changes such as sour attitude, poor coat quality, and weight loss.
Certain horses are at greater risk for developing digestive imbalances that lead to colic, diarrhea and ulcers.
Horses with a busy lifestyle where grazing is limited and stress levels are high
- Performance or racehorses
- Young horses in training
- Horses that travel
Horses with certain dispositions
- High-strung/excitable
- Timid and easily stressed
- Overly aggressive
- Quiet worrier
- Herd-bound
Horses with a past history
- Prone to sour attitude and indigestion
- Treated for gastric or colonic ulcers in the past
- Recent or ongoing treatment with NSAIDs and/or antibiotics
Absorption of food in digestive tract
Unhealthy digestive tract has:
- Unbalanced microbial population
- Damaged tissue and ulceration
- Poor nutrient absorption
Healing digestive tract has:
- More of the good bacteria
- Healing tissue and less ulceration
- Improved nutrient absorption
Healthy digestive tract has:
- Well-balanced microbial population
- Healthy tissue and no ulceration
- High nutrient absorption
Neigh-Lox Advanced provides a scientifically advanced blend of ingredients that work synergistically to maintain your horse’s digestive tract in peak condition.
Fed daily, Neigh-Lox Advanced supports a healthy equine GI tract, which reduces the incidence of:
- Colonic irritation and ulcers
- Colic and laminitis related to hindgut acidosis
- Diarrhea
- Gastric ulcers
- Low immunity
- Oxidative stress and cell membrane damage
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