maintaining digestive health can be a challenge

The health of your horse relies on the proper balance of bacteria in its digestive system. Unfortunately, dietary and environmental changes, birthing/laying, weaning, medication and transporting, among other common management practices, can tip the digestive balance in favor of harmful bacteria. However, supplementing your horse’s diet with probiotics can re-establish digestive balance and restore your horse’s health from the inside out.

noveQuin probiotic & digestive aid is eFFective For

Colic

Upset stomach

Shedding

Ulcers

Founder/Laminitis

Weakened immune systems

Autoimmune disorders

Cushing’s

Weight management

Performance and endurance

Coat appearance and hoof quality

Enhancing appetite

noveQuin optimizes digestive health throughout a horseís liFetime

Foals

A foal enters the world with a sterile digestive tract; although, it quickly acquires millions of bacteria, both beneficial and harmful. Usually the beneficial bacteria are able to keep the harmful bacteria in check; however, harmful bacteria grow much more

quickly than the beneficial ones and can take control of the foal’s young digestive system, with potentially disastrous results.

Adding probiotics, enzymes and beneficial yeast to a foal’s diet helps strengthen its immune system and defend against harmful bacterial overgrowth. Probiotics also help stop and prevent diarrhea, loose stools and scours. This will lead to bigger, stronger, healthier animals at weaning.

Adulthood

As a horse matures it faces many stressful situations: weaning, transporting, trailering, showing, changes in housing, changes in weather, sickness, breeding, foaling, injury and chronic pain to name just a few. This stress increases acidity in the horse’s gut,

which can kill off beneficial bacteria; so can the administration of antibiotics. Introducing probiotics into

the horse’s diet can speed up the recolonization of the digestive tract with beneficial bacteria and prevent the harmful effects of digestive imbalance, including colic.

Since probiotics and enzymes improve the digestion and absorption of nutrients, even healthy horses can benefit from supplementation. Optimal digestive health means better hair coats, stronger hooves and superior athletic performance.

Old Age

Older animals are not able to digest, absorb and metabolize nutrients as easily, leading to decreased

body weight and deteriorating overall health. Muscle mass begins to decline and connective tissue becomes lax, causing sagging of the topline and

belly. The horse’s immune system also suffers, which increases the risk of infections and delays healing.

As a result, improving your older animal’s digestive health is vitally important to their longevity. By supplementing it’s diet with probiotics, enzymes and beneficial yeast, your horse will have more appetite, absorb more nutrients, and increase it’s weight, improving the quality of your horses’s overall health.

beneFits oF digestive enzymes

While microbes like bacteria do the bulk of the work in a horse’s digestive tract, enzymes also play a significant role. Enzymes are essential for complete, rapid digestion of feed, especially fiber. When enzyme levels are low, feed remains undigested and can ferment in a horse’s intestines. Instead of providing nutrients to the horse, this decaying feed nourishes harmful microorganisms which produce toxins and gases that can lead to colic and damage to the gut.

As a result, digestive enzyme supplementation can accelerate the rate of feed digestion and boost nutrient absorption. Novequin contains:

Protease to break down proteins

Amylase to digest starch

Hemicellulase and cellulase to break down fiber

the noveQuin diFFerence

A single 10-gram serving yields:

7.7 g of Brewer’s Yeast

1.15 g of calcium carbonate

770 mg of vitafiber

2 billion colony-forming unites (CFUs) of Novequin’s proprietary probiotic blend, including E. faecium and L. acidophilus

19,000 HUT of protease

11,500 DU of amylase

1,500 HCU of hemicellulase

1,150 CU of cellulase

Unlike other probiotic and digestive products on the market, Novequin does not contain inulin. Inulin has been shown to increase gas production in humans and may do the same in horses. Instead, Novequin uses Vitafiber, a natural prebiotic found in Tapioca, which provides a healthy medium for beneficial bacteria to live and boosts the health-promoting activities of probiotics in the hindgut.