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Learn how to improve your animal's hoof with live yeasts.

Learn how to improve your animal's hoof with live yeasts.
Yeasts are eukaryotic and unicellular microorganisms belonging to the kingdom of fungi (Kingdom Fungi). They are immobile, chemo-heterotrophic, that is, remove nutrients from the surrounding environment by external enzymatic digestion and facultative aerobes, which means that they can survive in the presence and absence of oxygen, however for fermentation, anaerobic conditions are necessary . However, its reproduction, which occurs asexually through budding, requires aerobic conditions. For yeast nutrition, we need a source of carbon and a source of nitrogen, organic or not. Water is also an indispensable factor for its survival (Ana, Vieira, & Ifg-inhumas,2012).

Mechanisms of action of yeasts in animals:
Probiotics are used to provide digestive enzymes and try to establish a desirable balance of intestinal organisms and may be a source of live yeasts such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae for animals (OITICICA, 2007). Probiotics are viable microorganisms, sufficient quantities that reach the intestine in the active state and thus exert basic positive health effects, such as (transient) modulation of host intestinal microflora and the ability to interact directly with the immune or mediated system microflora are basic mechanisms (DE VRESE &SCHREZENMEIR, 2008).

Yeasts and Biotin
The yeasts in the animal's organism also participate in stimulating the production of some vitamins, such as B vitamins (de Moura et al., 2009).
Vitamins are directly linked to the formation and maintenance of hull quality, and vitamins A, D and B complex, and especially biotin, are worthy of note (BERTENCHINI, 2013).
And as we know, nutrition is one of the main factors that influence hull quality. Being that the deficiency of minerals, proteins and vitamins in the diet affects the keratogenesis and the external appearance of all the parts of the hull. Scaly and brittle hooves suggest that the animal is deficient in the specific substances that constitute the helmet, biotin (Zúccari1, Shiroma2, & Bertozzo, 2014).
We know that according to Oliveira, 2011 equines synthesize the B vitamins and for maintenance animals supplementation is practically unnecessary.
What is seen there, however, are animals that have fragile hooves have insufficient supply of biotin, this occurs because, the digestive health of the animal is in trouble, therefore the yeasts, allowing a better condition in the TGI, also stimulates the production of these B vitamins.

Prevention of laminitis

Currently carbohydrates are present in large quantities in equine diets, but there is a need to balance structural and non-structural carbohydrates, since the intake of high amounts of starch in the horse's diet may not be fully digested in the small intestine, reaching the cecum and colon, and promoting intestinal microbiota imbalance (BRAGA, 2006). This change in the microbiota may result in a sudden drop in pH and may cause gastrointestinal disturbances, thus leaving the horse more susceptible to colic and laminitis. Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast has been studied in equine diets in order to improve the fermentation of the fibrous fraction and to avoid that undesirable changes occur due to the excess of concentrate in the diet, mainly by the fraction of hydrolyzable and fermentable carbohydrates, such as starch ( Gobesso, Taran, Gonzaga, Françoso, & Centini, 2011). It is observed, therefore, that the supplementation with active yeasts, can prevent pictures of laminitis.

How these benefits guarantee the quality of the hull:
The health of the hull is directly related to the animal's nutrition, for an animal with strong and healthy hulls, it is necessary that there is a balance of its diet, while the active yeasts, will help in the digestive health of the same, modulating its intestinal microbiota and potentiating the production of vitamins important for the growth and integrity of the hull.

Note Univitta.
"Thinking of helping breeders and owners who have problems with their animal hooves, Univitta launches Foot Balance, an essential vitamin mineral supplement that helps maintain the integrity of hooves through products with high bioavailability and It is indicated for horses and cattle at any stage of development.

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Postado Por: Letícia Simões

Letícia Simões
Veterinary Medicine Student USP Pirassununga FZEA, trainee in the research laboratory in digestive health and performance of horses, currently involved in an experiment on nutrition of the equine hull and works in the marketing of Univitta Animal Health.

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