The Benefits of Probiotics on Animal Health

We think that bacteria can cause severe illnesses by making you sick. However, do you know that humans and even animals have bacterial flora lining in our intestinal tracts? These bacterias can prove beneficial to your health, and when you fall sick, there is an alteration in the balance of the bacteria.

Various situations prove that with the imbalance of bacteria in the gut, it can cause huge problems like trauma, injury, chronic illnesses, and stress. Even our food digestion and absorption of all the important nutrients is done by the bacteria which are found in the intestinal tract, so a minor imbalance can also lead to many serious diseases.

Some of the major ingredients that can be used to make probiotics that help to restore balance in our gut include  Lactobacillus thermophilus or Lactobacillus acidophilus, Enterococcus faecium, and Bifidobacterium bifidum. These healthy bacteria can also stop unhealthy bacteria from causing any kind of harmful illness. Even these healthy bacteria also produce vitamin B which is important for both animals and humans.

As animals age, along with their diet, stress, or even the use of medications, the amount of healthy bacteria in their intestine decreases. Giving probiotic supplements to animals that are old, injured, ill, stressed, or not eating well can help strengthen their intestinal health and even ward off diseases.

Probiotics are also available at many health food stores in capsules, liquids, and live-culture yogurt. Animal Health Products can even give an additional bump to the nutrition of your animal’s health. An active blend of herbs, enzymes, vitamins, probiotics, and nutrients can support proper digestion and bowel health by maintaining healthy gut flora and pH to support normal digestive function.

Here are some benefits of probiotics on animal health:

Improved growth rate:

Microorganisms are used as probiotics in animals. They are linked with efficacy in the gut. Strains of probiotics can also be improved with feed intake, feed conversion rate, daily weight gain in farm animals like chicken, pig, sheep, goat, and cattle.

Milk production:

If you want to have more production on milk, fat, and protein content, then feeding animals with probiotics is a good decision to make. By consumption of higher serum cholesterol and total lipid concentrations, it has been seen that there is an increase in blood and milk parameters. Microbes are selected in milk products for their ability to produce organic acids, and these microbes are selected because of their health-associated properties.

Egg production:

Probiotics can also increase egg production, egg quality, eggshell weight, shell thickness, and serum calcium while decreasing the egg contaminations. It also helps in reducing plasma cholesterol and triglyceride.

Bacillus clausii is a gram-positive, rod-shaped, motile, and spore-forming bacterium that lives in soil. They are classified as probiotic microorganisms which can help to maintain a symbiotic relationship with the host. Bacillus clausii can also be used as a probiotic treatment to protect animals’ guts from infection, chronic diarrhea, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, Helicobacter pylori, and to treat infections. It is also effective for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome-related symptoms.