Holistic Horse Health: Remi takes a swim
Remi has been doing so fantastic in his shoes with the fill in pads. I intend to get him barefoot again but with all the rain we had last summer he wore his feet off too fast. His hooves have been tough and without flair on his holistic horse health program of di magnesium malate, [...]
Holistic Horse Health: Managing and feeding a horse during wild weather
Last week was sunny and warm which was quite a contrast from the previous week of sub freezing temps. Unfortunately, this is typical for Central Texas in February. On Monday night it was 80 degrees and by Tuesday morning it was 24 and we did not get above freezing for 3 days. We had multiple [...]
Holistic Horse Health: Comparing cost in feed for horses
Nutrition is critical for a holistic horse health program. When evaluating the cost of feed for horses you have to consider quality over price. I recently bought 2 bales of alfalfa hay for horses and I paid $15 for one bale and $12 for the other. The $15 bale was expensive but very green and [...]
Holistic Horse Health – No pain, no gain?
The no pain, no gain attitude should not apply when you work with horses. It is one thing to tolerate pain yourself and push yourself past your limits but quite another thing to ask your horse to do the same. Some horses love doing a job and will willingly work through moderate pain but others [...]
Holistic Horse Health: Equine symptoms that persist
Why can’t there just be a pill to cure all those stubborn equine symptoms. We would pay any amount of money for something easy to make our horses well! But it is not so easy. You see those stubborn equine symptoms are not just simple conditions. They are the result of a process that has [...]
Holistic Horse Health: The miserable merry go round of horse ulcers
First you have stress, then you have ulcers, then pain causing more stress. Or you have pain, then ulcers and then more pain and stress or you have ulcers, then stress… See how horse ulcers can become a miserable, never ending merry go round for the horse and owner. What to do and where to [...]
Holistic Horse Health: Do your horse’s hair coats look like crap?
Despite a solid holistic horse health program my horses were not slick and shiny and I was really annoyed by this. I pride myself on taking the best possible care of my horses but after 18 months of drought followed by a hard, wet winter my horse’s coats looked like crap. The hair was long, [...]
Holistic horse health: Do you have a lazy horse?
My friend, Stephanie, had a horse we all thought was simply a lazy horse but we were wrong. Marcus was a jumper and Stephanie would have to kick him constantly to get him around the course. Even with a good holistic horse health program, Marcus remained a lazy horse who would get slower each day [...]
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