Microbiome Profiling is a new service WormCheck is offering that gives a summary of the bacterial population within your horses’ digestive system, based on DNA identification of the bacteria.

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Investigating if your horses’ microbiome is healthy or unhealthy may help with improving diet and other management factors to improve overall horse health. WormCheck aims to make microbiome profiling (via 16SrDNA next generation sequencing) available to horse owners. Faecal samples will come to the WormCheck lab for preparation before DNA is sequenced off-site. The results will be analysed here and a summary report with recommendations for diet/management changes will be emailed.

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Turn-around time for results may be up to 6 weeks: this is a common time frame for any DNA sequencing analysis when outsourcing to specialised laboratories.

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Horses that may benefit from microbiome profiling include:

• Horses that struggle either with obesity or with holding condition

• High performance horses that require high energy feeds

• Horses with consistently high faecal egg count results

• Horses with inconsistent manure/faecal water syndrome

• Horses with gut discomfort/recurrent colic
   

Costs:

Introductory pricing will be:

• $250 for the first horse

• $220 for all subsequent horses on a single order

To organise a collection kit, fill in the order form below and an invoice will be emailed. Following payment of the invoice, a kit will be posted. Invoices will be issued once the minimum number of orders is achieved (10+ kits)