Horse

Preventative

Amaferm maximizes digestion and promotes good health. It unlocks valuable nutrients in pasture grasses, forages and feeds, to help your horse optimize feed usage while helping you minimize feed costs.

Problems/Challenges

Agalactia

Anything that compromises intake for the mare can lead to a decrease in milk production. Many conditions associated with foaling such as mastitis, metritis, or sickness can lower feed intakes. Amaferm directly stimulates the  microbes in the digestive tract to keep a mare on feed or to get her back on feed.

Antibiotic Therapy

Unlike probiotics, Amaferm performs as an adjuvant during antibiotic therapy. Proven to stimulate beneficial microflora, even in the presence of antibiotics, Amaferm re-establishes a healthy gut for speedier recovery.

Boarding

Horses were designed to be grazers. Confining them in a stall or paddock is stressful. They may not show any outward signs, but stress can alter the microflora in the digestive tract and even a small disruption of normal flora will sacrifice performance. By stimulating the beneficial microbes, Amaferm helps take away the ups and downs of daily stresses.

Breeding

Much research shows breeding to be a “luxury” function. This means an animal will only reproduce when all other nutritional requirements are met. Amaferm increases beneficial microflora in the gut to increase digestion – which, in turn, makes more nutrients available to meet the animal’s needs, including   reproduction.

Colic

Colic can arise for many reasons, but the bottom line is gas build-up in the colon, resulting in intense pain. Some of the reasons for colic include changes in weather or feed, de-worming, etc., which cause an altering or shifting of the microbial populations in the hind gut. These changes in population change the microbial end products, i.e., over-production of gas. Amaferm stimulates the normally-occurring microbes to overcome change and return populations to a normal balance.

De-Worming

Parasites impose stress and rob your horse of nutrients.  So the removal of parasites is of critical importance. However, helping the horse recover from the parasitic load, as well as the stress of worming, is where Amaferm can be of benefit.

Foal Heat Scours

Hormonally induced changes in milk composition cause shifting of microflora in the foal’s digestive system, which results in diarrhea. Amaferm stimulates beneficial microflora to help prevent pathogens from taking hold.

Hard Keepers

The digestive system in a hard keeper is compromised for some reason. Regardless of the cause, the result is less effective use of nutrients. Amaferm stimulates beneficial microflora and VFA production to help meet the extra energy needed to maintain body condition.

Heaves

A horse with heaves has increased maintenance demands because of the   extra energy required to move air. Often, the horse will have difficulty maintaining weight. Amaferm increases digestion to help meet the extra energy needed to maintain body condition.

Laminitis

Chronically-affected grass founder is common in horses during spring. Even though it’s high in energy, lush spring grass passes through a horse so quickly,

it actually leaves the animal in a somewhat negative energy balance. This results in a breakdown of stored body fat to meet energy requirements. In a horse that may already have compromised liver function due to fatty liver, the outward result is sore feet. Amaferm increases both the rate and the extent of digestion, which helps the horse meet its energy requirements and prevents the breakdown of body fat.

Performance

The lifestyle of today’s performance horse challenges its digestive ability and can result in an inefficient digestive tract – thus, limiting optimal performance potential. An inefficient digestive system could be a limiting factor in your chance at the winner’s circle. Amaferm increases digestion, which fuels beneficial microflora and VFA production to help meet the extra energy needs of performance horses.

Senior Horses

As a natural part of the aging process, senior horses have a harder time absorbing and utilizing nutrients. Amaferm helps seniors by increasing nutrient availability as well as surface area in the gut to increase absorption of those nutrients.

Vaccinations

When we vaccinate a horse, we expect its immune system to produce the desired immunity. If this is going to happen, it is essential that sufficient nutrients be available for the immune system after the animal’s primary nutritional needs are met – maintenance, growth and development. Amaferm stimulates microbial digestion to help provide the extra nutrients required by the horse’s immune system.