Chaffhaye
I have been so concerned lately about my horses not having any fresh feed. I have always had the luxury of pasture even if it was never enough to meet all their needs. Because of the extended drought my horses have not had any fresh feed in about 18 months. It is typical for pasture [...]
Food Energetics by Steve Gagne
I have been working on different feeding programs for Five Element horse temperaments and I have recently read a book named Food Energetics by Steve Gagne. This book goes way past the nutritional makeup of food and talks about the many other components that are also important. For example, Steve looks at the historical use [...]
Feeding a horse during a drought
Man the weather is dry here in South Central Texas. I have lived in the Hill Country all of my life and I can remember many periods of dry weather but nothing like this. The humidity has been in the single digits and the wind blows constantly. The temps cool down at night but [...]
Variety in feed for horses
Feeding a horse can be a real challenge especially if the horse has health challenges. Once you have found a horse feeding plan that is just perfect you of course don’t want to change anything. The problem with this is that feed for horses in the wild is varied and always has multiple choices and [...]
Feeding a horse real food vs. natural supplements
I was responding to a post on my forum about feed supplements and the fact that our horses sometimes need the same supplements we do. I do agree that your health challenges can be similar to our horses and I think this may be because we are drawn to horses that are the same type [...]
Five element feeding – Five flavors
Most people think of food from only its nutritional value which they consider the same for every horse but when viewed energetically foods have different effects on different horses depending on their Five Element type. In addition to looking at foods from a standpoint of different types we should also look at what we feed [...]
