Protexin Equine Horse & Pony Gut Balancer Advanced Digestive Support

Protexin Equine Horse & Pony Gut Balancer Advanced Digestive Support
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  • 400g Tub £14.35
  • 700g Tub £23.19
  • 3.5kg Tub £95.00
  • 7kg Tub £170.39

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Gut Balancer supports optimal nutrition by providing key nutrients and by improving digestive function and efficiency.

  • Enhances Digestive Efficiency: Contains Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a probiotic yeast rich in essential amino acids and B-vitamins, to promote fibre digestion and optimize nutrient absorption
  • Dual-Action Prebiotics: Features Preplex prebiotics, combining fructo-oligosaccharide and gum arabic, to nourish beneficial gut bacteria and support a balanced intestinal environment
  • Daily Digestive Health Support: Designed for everyday use to promote a healthy gut, especially beneficial for horses during work, travel, dietary changes, or periods of stress
  • Palatable Alfalfa Base: Formulated with alfalfa meal for enhanced palatability, ensuring easy and consistent intake by horses and ponies
  • BETA NOPS Accredited: Complies with FEI Clean Sport guidelines, making it safe for competitive use and free from prohibited substances

The probiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae contains numerous essential amino acids, vitamins, including vitamin B6, and important minerals. S. cerevisiae promotes fibre digestion, maximising dietary potential through the release of safe calories from fibre, ensuring optimum nutrition.

All Protexin Equine supplements are complementary feeds - designed to provide nutrition, as well as support digestive function and efficiency.

BETA NOPS and Clean Sport
ADM Protexin are proud to be members of BETA and are NOPS accredited. All ingredients in our products are selected to ensure they are fully compliant with the FEI guidelines for Clean Sport.

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Reviews (101)

Summary of Reviews for Protexin Equine Horse & Pony Gut Balancer Advanced Digestive Support

Overall 5
Effectiveness
Ease Of Use
Value For Money
Absence Of Side Effects
99 out of 101 (98%) customers would recommend this product.
5 stars (84 reviews)
4 stars (14 reviews)
3 stars (2 reviews)
2 stars (0 reviews)
1 stars (1 reviews)

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Superb gut balancer
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By Julia Garner on 16 May 2026

Excellent product, settled my mare's tummy right away, now give her a scoop a day and she has been fine ever since

Customer recommends this product

Gut balancer
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By Beverley Powell on 4 May 2026

Have been giving to my horse for couple of years very impressed seems to have sorted her out

Customer recommends this product

Great product.
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By Sally Harniess on 7 February 2024

Use this to stop diarrhoea from PPID medication, on bets advice, I need to use daily and it works. If I stop using it then in a couple of weeks my mare is in a mess again. Tried a cheaper brand at double the dose and was only half successful, won’t be changing again! Only need 3/4 measure a day with Protexin. Only thing I’d improve is shape of pot and spoon so it’d be easier to get out!

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Perfect all round gut health
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By Debbie Pickford on 26 November 2023

My horse has been on this product for years, he is a lot happier in his ridden work and doesn’t get upset tummy when on the fresh grass

Customer recommends this product

1 person found this review helpful

Gut balancer
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By Janet Malphus on 8 February 2023

Still using, and work in progress

Customer recommends this product

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Q & A

Below are some recent questions we've received regarding Protexin Equine Horse & Pony Gut Balancer Advanced Digestive Support, including answers from our team.

8 March 2025 at 9:06am

Uveitis

Kate

My pony is on daily Butagran for uveitis. Will this supplement support his gut health. I'm concerned about long term side effects of anti inflammatory medication so want to support him as much as possible.

  • VioVet Staff

It is a gut balancer so it promotes normal digestive function, Protexin Gut Balancer is a palatable prebiotic and probiotic powder that can be used either continuously or simply in times of high stress or digestive upset to restore the natural gut balance. It will help support the gut and digestion system.

28 February 2025 at 5:13am

Pregnant mare and protein gut balancer

Antonios ANASTASIOU

Is it safe to give protein gut balancer to a pregnant mare?

  • VioVet Staff

Yes, Protexin Gut Balancer is safe for use in pregnant and lactating mares.

29 April 2023 at 8:24am

Lasting effects

Hannah

How long does 1 scoop take stay in the horses system? Only asking as I usually fees around the same time every day but they have now gone out for summer... so if it is fed at a slightly different time through the day will this make a difference?

  • VioVet Staff

Changing the time of day of dosing should not make a significant difference to the effect of the supplement. Ideally the dose should be given at the same time of day each day, but if you wish to move this time then you can do this without issue.

19 February 2022 at 8:09pm

How long will a tub last for?

Lisa

How many scoops is in each of the tubs?

  • VioVet Staff

This depends on how you are dosing and what for, each scoop equates to 10g of product:

Normal use
5 - 10g (1/2 - 1 level measure) added to the daily food.
A 400g tub will last 40 to 80 days
A 700g tub will last 70 to 140 days
A 3.5kg tub will last 350 to 700 days
A 7kg tub will last 700 to 1400 days

Stress use
10 - 20g (1 - 2 level measures) added to the daily food.
A 400g tub will last 20 to 40 days
A 700g tub will last 35 to 70 days
A 3.5kg tub will last 175 to 350 days
A 7kg tub will last 350 to 700 days

11 August 2021 at 11:15pm

How much to give

Karen

What amount do you have to feed daily for a 15.2 27 year old

  • VioVet Staff

The dosing for this product does not vary with the weight or age of your horse, it is as follows:
Normal use: 10g (1 level measure) added to the daily food
Stress use: 20g (2 level measures) added to the daily food

4 September 2020 at 8:49am

Laminitic

LAR

Is this ok for a horse with previous laminitis?

  • VioVet Staff

Generally you want to avoid high sugar supplements if your horse is prone to laminitis. This supplement has a low sugar content and so is safe to use.

2 April 2018 at 9:41pm

Expiry date?

Zoe Blaauw

  • VioVet customer since 2017
  • From: Hampshire, United Kingdom

If I feed 10g twice a day, the 7kg would last a year, is the expiry longer than that?

  • VioVet Staff

Hi Zoe,

Thank you for your query.

Please be advised our current stock of Protexin Gut Balancer has an expiration date of 01/20 so you would have plenty of time to feed daily for a year. I hope this can be of some help to you, but if we can be of any further assistance in the meantime please let us know at [email protected].

25 March 2018 at 5:23pm

Usage length

Victoria Lane

If i feed two scoops of this a day, how long will a 700kg tub last for?

I.e how big are the scoops?

  • VioVet Staff

A scoop is 10g so at a rate of 2 scoops a day the 700g tub would last 35 days and the 7kg tub would last 350 days.

26 June 2017 at 8:54am

Hind gut

Aimee Holt

  • VioVet customer since 2017
  • From: , United Kingdom

Hi there

I already feed acid ease, can you tell me what the difference is in product? I think my horse has a hind gut issue. I'm also already feeding yeasacc. Anything else you could recommend?

Thanks

Aimee

  • VioVet Staff

Acid Ease acts to protect and soothe the gut lining where the Gut Balancer will help restore the normal balance of microbes in the gut. This balance is very important to maintain efficient digestion and absorption of nutrients. Gut Balancer is the product I would recommend if you are concerned about hind gut issues. You can safely feed this alongside Acid Ease.

25 February 2017 at 6:43pm

Horse eating poo

Cdev

My horse has been noted to be eating poo - he's turned out 24/7 and given extra haylage over the past couple of months through the winter with 2 small hard feeds a day. Would this be worth trying as the poo eating suggests maybe some gut issues?

  • VioVet Staff

Good bacteria in the hind gut of a horse help to break down food, manufacture certain essential vitamins and keep "bad bacteria" at bay. If the hind gut has gone into dysbiosis and the balance of good bacteria to bad bacteria has been compromised you are right that a horse may eat poo to re-establish the correct balance of bacteria in the gut. Of course there are exceptions to this rule but using a probiotic is a good place to start. Protexin Gut Balancer would be the ideal product to use here so I would certainly give it a try.

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