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Founderguard®

Virginamycin feed additive for horses for the prevention of grain induced laminitis.

Used in conjunction with high grain diets to maintain low blood D-lactate (of gut origin) and reduce the risk of laminitis.

Product Features & Benefits:

  • Highly palatable: easy administration

  • Preventative therapy: protects against this disease that is usually not detected until it is too late

  • Pellet formulation: action in the hindgut

  • Allows high grain diets to be fed safely: provides an easy way to get the full potential out of every horse

  • Available in 1 kg bucket

 

Dosage & Administration:

Administer 5 g/100 kg bodyweight daily as a single or divided dose. Pellets contain 10 g of Virginamycin per kg. 

  • Founderguard® should be given for at least 3 days before any change in diet.  

  • Because starting Founderguard® can cause a mild reduction in appetite, it should be gradually introduced over 4 days.

 

Withholding Periods:

  • Meat: 63 days
  • Detection time: Nil
  • Possible withholding time: No race day administration

 

Founderguard® is a Restricted Veterinary Medicine. Available only under Veterinary Authorisation. Registered pursuant to the ACVM Act 1997, No. A6863.