RE: [RC] probiotics that contain milk products, such as yogurt - Susan E. Garlinghouse, D.V.M.
Oh, baloney. Not you, Lori--- the
person that said don’t feed milk products to horses. We’re
not talking ten gallons of whole cow’s milk here, we’re talking a
couple spoonfuls of a live culture yogurt, so let’s not throw the baby
out with the bath water.
I’m fine with a live probiotics supplement,
I’m fine with freeze dried probiotics though I have a lot less faith in
their viability than I used to, and I’m more than perfectly fine with a
couple spoonfuls of live culture yogurt.
Susan Garlinghouse, DVM
From:
ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LTYearwood@xxxxxxx Sent: Friday, January 21, 2005
10:17 PM To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [RC] probiotics that
contain milk products, such as yogurt
The
yogurt seems to work for pro-biotics, as I have tried it and seen
good results.
However,
after seeing a post here on ridecamp about the oddity/danger of feeding a horse
something with milk in it -- the person who placed the post said horses don't
have milk in their naturl diet -- I began to do a little research. I
learned that others found it odd to give a horse something with milk in
it, too. For example, here is what Catherine Bird, author of A Healthy Horse The Natural Way, wrote:
"Some
natural heatlh practitioners recommend feeding yoghurt to a horse with a
troubled digestive sytem, to re-establish the bowel bacteria. In my opinion,
this unwise. After being weaned, a horese's gut is intolerant to milk products.
Milk products could even cause a colic episode in your horse is particularly
sensitive. Horses were never meant to drink other mammal's milk. Goat's milk is
for baby goats, cow's milk is for calves and neither are for horses, so please
avoid them.
If
you suspect that your horse has depleted levels of healthy bowel bacteria,
probiotics (a live, microbial feed supplement) designed to blaance the gut
bacteria of your horse are commerically available...."
I'm not
a scientist. Nor am I a vet. And like I said, yogort with milk had wokred for me. But this
above mentioned logic makes sense to me. So I now use live probitiocs in a
liquid form (they require referigation though) that are lactose free. My horses
respond very well and very quickly to it.
Lori
I used
to spend so much money on probiotics! Now I buy it at the health food market. I
