Regulate Bowel Movement

[maisik]

Some of my horses have very frequent bowel movement. They do not have anything wrong medically. Would anyone suggest anything to slowdown/regulate their bowl movement...?

[Mehitabel]

frequent is good! unless you're talking about every five minutes, of course, but once or twice in an hour is perfectly normal and desirable. overnight in stables you should expect 6-8 droppings as an average.

[puzzles]

Wow, really? I never knew that - be sure i'll be watching out for that in the future!

feeding plenty of good quality forage will help to ensure healthy bowel movements, as will feeding a prebiotic/probiotic/live yeast culture.

:-)

xx

If you're still concerned, you can always contact an equine nutritionist for free - for example Baileys Horse Feeds :(http://www.baileyshorsefeeds.co.uk/about/contactus.htm)

Or Blue Chip:
(http://www.bluechipfeed.com/contact.htm)

:-)

xx