Your chickens already have bacteria in their guts.
The goal is to make sure the good guys have a decent neighborhood.
FlockLeader™ Thrive is a daily probiotic and prebiotic supplement for established poultry. It combines live beneficial bacteria, prebiotics, and plasma proteins to support normal digestion, nutrient utilization, and everyday flock health.
Add it to drinking water or mix it into feed, which is considerably easier than trying to explain gut microbiology to a chicken.
Thrive contains live, naturally occurring microorganisms selected for poultry digestive support. Prebiotics from dried chicory root provide a food source for beneficial bacteria, while animal plasma provides additional proteins as part of the nutritional formula.
The probiotic bacteria are dried to help preserve them during storage, then become active after being rehydrated. That's also why prepared Thrive water should be replaced after 24 hours rather than left sitting in the waterer.
No, you don't need to explain any of this to the chickens.
They just drink it.
Maltodextrins, animal plasma, dried chicory root, dried Enterococcus faecium fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus plantarum fermentation product, dried Lactobacillus casei fermentation product, and silicon dioxide.
Add 1 teaspoon of FlockLeader™ Thrive to 1 gallon of fresh drinking water daily, or mix 1 teaspoon thoroughly into 4 pounds of feed.
Discard unused supplemented water after 24 hours and prepare fresh as needed.
For young chicks, FlockLeader offers ARRIVE™, a probiotic and prebiotic supplement formulated for poultry during their first weeks of life.
Thrive is a nutritional supplement, not a replacement for a complete, balanced poultry ration or veterinary care when a bird is actually sick.
Healthy gut bacteria aren't particularly exciting.
Neither is indoor plumbing until something goes wrong.