Hi there, fellow horse lovers! If you’ve owned a horse, you’ve likely thought about supplements. In fact, you’ve most likely purchased multiple supplements that you may or may not be currently feeding to your equine friend. We don’t even need to talk about the cost associated with supplements; let’s just completely ignore that part of this discussion and get right to the skinny.
It seems that all of us fret over how to maximize the potential, the fitness, and ultimately, the healthy lifespan of our horses. Sharing our lives with horses often puts them in situations where we have to help them meet their needs, as they are not out foraging on hundreds of acres as nature intended. The GI tract of a horse is one of the most supplemented and worried about systems, and rightfully so.
There are literally millions of microorganisms that live in intestinal tract of a horse. Despite our efforts as owners, it is common for the environment for these microorganisms to become upset and unbalanced, therefore needing extra support. A disruption in the GI biome does not necessarily mean episodes of colic, but rather a variety of other issues that we often don’t instantly attribute to gut health. Laziness, sudden spookiness or lack of focus, hard keepers, dull coats, skin irritations; all of these can stem from a lack of balance in the intestinal tract.
After years of playing catch up and being a step behind what our horses needed, we decided to follow a maintenance mode with our horses and added the ingredients in our FarmGalz Belly Balancer daily to our horses’ feed. In a short time it became evident that what those ingredients provided were essential to the overall wellbeing of our horses. We hope that you, like us, understand the old adage of “An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure” and join in the quest to support our equine partners with a whole health approach to wellness.
The use of natural, organic support can positively help maintain an environment to support those microorganisms that are the foundation to equine health, as well as to reestablish such an environment following treatment for ulcers, the use of antibiotics, or other factors that disrupt the necessary balance.