general horse care
Holistic Horse Health: Blue green algae as a feed for horses
As I was finding yet one more use for my empty algae containers I got to thinking. Since I started on a holistic horse health program about 20 years ago Simplexity blue green algae has been one of my most consistent recommendations as a feed for horses. Blue green algae has been part of the [...]
New Year’s Resolution: Do You and Your Horse Have One?
Are you busy making New Year’s resolutions for you and your horse? Are you hoping to go more places, win more prizes, or have more fun with your horse? More importantly, is there something that has held you and your horse back from your dreams and aspirations? Some of the barriers that I see in [...]
Holistic Horsemanship – Are you soft around your horse?
Don’t you love those little zingers you get from God. Here I am, not even through my first cup of coffee, having my morning meditation time with God and he zips in one of those zingers. With my horses I am always wanting them to be light and soft in their responses. I was asking [...]
Horse Temperament: Is your Fire or Wood mare bitchy?
I like to say , if your mare is mean then give her green. Green foods, that is, in the form of chlorophyl rich foods and herbs that will balance and support the liver. I have noticed my Fire horse temperament mare, Cerise, has been more irritable this year during our extreme drought. I have [...]
Holistic Horse Health: Why I feed probiotics
What is the first rule in feeding horses? Don’t make drastic feed changes. This is true because horses depend on a population of friendly bacteria to maintain healthy digestion. Drastic feed changes can alter the balance of healthy bacteria which can lead to colic or laminitis. Stress, drugs and weather changes can also alter the [...]
Natural Horse Health in Winter
When winter weather hits our natural human tendency is to do what we can to protect our horses from the cold, damp, and wind. This is a wonderful nurturing and protective instinct, and at the same time I frequently see people overdoing that protection, often at the expense of their horse’s health. This may seem [...]
Horse Temperament: Is your older Wood/Fire(Jue Yin) limping?
Horse temperament plays a part in how horses age. Tess, my 30 year old, Jue Yin mule has been limping lately. I know exactly why this is happening. After enduring a miserable, record breaking drought and temperatures over 100 for 90 days the weather has cooled off. When the weather was so hot the horses [...]
Holistic Horsemanship: Is your horse well trained AND gentle?
I once assumed well trained and gentle meant the same thing. That was multiple horse injuries ago. Now I understand there is a big difference. My mule, Tess, is a great example of the difference between well trained and gentle. I took Tess to a Buck Brannaman clinic when she was 17 years old. This [...]
Laminitis in horses: York Part 3
York Part 1 York Part 2 York ended up losing 3/4 of his hoof wall on the LF. His hoof wall jammed up into his coronary band and had to be filed and cut away to allow for new hoof to grow. The large wedge of dead laminar tissue between the detached hoof wall and [...]
Horse Temperament: Fire horse benefits greatly from tail detangling
My Fire horse temperament mare, Cerise, is so much softer in her topline after a special tail detangling session with Patty Parent. Cerise has always been very tight in her tail so I was intrigued when Patty explained to me what she was doing with horses. She mentioned several trainers who commented about the overall [...]
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