GutBitters *Gut support during grass flushes / changes
An effective synergistic blend of organic gut-supporting bitter herbs, known to support the hindgut during grass flushes/changes.
Key Benefits
✔️Grass flush-affected hindgut function.
✔️Gastrointestinal health and digestion.
✔️*Recommended to feed for a minimum 2-weeks to resettle the hindgut, but can safely be fed long-term.
✔️*Blended as a dried herb feed to stimulate digestion.
*Please note this is a nutritional, functional food supplement and not veterinary medicine. See Dr Kellon's Horse Sense - 'Nutrition is not 'Alternative' Therapy.
For the latest research and updates, see our main
Herbal Nutrition by Condition/Gut System
page.
Details
It's that time again - the grass flushes and our horses get cow-splatty loose droppings, especially common when our horses are switching from a winter on stemmy, fibre-rich hay to an abundance of fresh, juicy, green grass-shoots.
And we've all seen the radical changes in what comes out the other end - loose, watery 'cow splat' droppings, caused by the sudden high percentage of 60% higher in water than hay, sugary neon-green grass blades, with a significant reduction in cellulose fibre going through the hindgut, causing disruption in the gut flora.
It's simple enough to reverse by restricting access to the green stuff and keeping an adlib hay supply passing through the hindgut, but what can also help is feeding 'bitter' herbs.
See our Blog The Bitter Reflex for how bitter herbs can really help your horse at this time of year.
Composition & Feed Guide
Produced to ecological standards and free from agro-chemicals. See our Quality page for for Organic Certification Documents.
Feed Guide
- 5g/100kg bodyweight (i.e. 25g daily for a 500kg horse), in daily feed.
- 1-yr shelf life.
Dried organic herbs, roots & barks:
Angelica archangelica , Arctium lappa ( Burdock ), Matricaria recutita ( Chamomile ), Taraxicum off. radix ( Dandelion ), Foeniculum vulgare (Fennel), Oreganum vulgare ( Oregano ), Artemisia absinthium (Wormwood) & Achillea millefolium ( Yarrow )*
* Grown especially for us organically and biodynamically by Organic Herb Trading Co. https://www.biodynamics.com/what-is-biodynamics
Recommendations
- Ensure stemmy hay is available 24/7.
Contraindications
- Supplements of any kind should be fed with caution to the pregnant mare so always seek veterinary advice.
- Avoid if your horse has:
- chronic gastric ulcerogenic conditions
- chronic respiratory congestion.
- A depressed metabolism.
Reviews
- 25.4.23- Well well, what a difference. This spring grass has caused my TB mare with a normally perfect gut to develop cowpats after 3-days, but within a day the SpringBitters have returned her droppings to a healthy normal consistency! Impressed! Emma
The content in this website is intended as a sharing of knowledge and information from our own research over many years, together with clients' experiences and our own personal experience over 5-decades of horse care. This website is about enlightening towards a more naturopathic approach to support a healthy lifestyle for our horses. Any information contained within is not intended as a substitute or replacement of veterinary or other professional advice, and we would encourage everyone to make their own equine healthcare decisions based upon their own research.
* Trading Standards EC Feed Hygiene Regulation (183/2005), Registration No. GB280/4203
* HACCP certified facility (an international standard that ensures we meet food safety standards)
* Registered in England. Company Number 11075894, Reg'd Office: Unit 4 Rookery Farm, Radstock BA3 4UL
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