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Feeding a Pregnant Mare
What extra feeding is required for mares in foal?
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Dec 23, 20223 min read
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5 Horse Diet Basics
There are so many options that horse feeding can be confusing. It doesn't need to be complicated.
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Dec 20, 20223 min read
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Dress Your Hoof with Two Household Products
Household products used as hoof dressing that make a difference to hoof health.
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Dec 17, 20222 min read
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Is Your Horse Sleep Deprived?
Adequate sleep is a welfare, performance and safety issue. How do you recognise sleep deprivation in horses?
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Dec 15, 20224 min read
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Parasite Management Naturally
With very high rates of resistance of worms to current dewormers, horse owners need to be holistic in managing parasites.
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Nov 23, 20224 min read
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Spring! 3 ways to help prevent laminitis
Here are 3 ways that you can help to limit grazing without limiting movement.
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Aug 28, 20223 min read
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Ageing a Horse by its Teeth, and Calorie Considerations for the Older Horse
There's a very common myth that horses grow teeth throughout their whole life. That's not true.
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Jul 29, 20222 min read
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To Rug or Not to Rug
Some things to consider when rugging a horse.
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May 11, 20223 min read
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Supplements by Subscription
You won't need to think about it. Simply dose using the scoop that's in the bag and just as you should run out, you will receive a new bag.
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May 5, 20223 min read
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Is your horse overweight on pasture?
Being overweight, or even a healthy weight does not mean a horse's nutritional requirements are being met by pasture alone.
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Oct 11, 20214 min read
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Is Your Horse Underweight on Pasture?
There are a range of reasons your horse might be underweight on pasture. Maybe you don't have a lot of pasture. It could be a health issue.
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Sep 11, 20216 min read
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Why are you Feeding Your Horse?
If your horse is a healthy weight on pasture then what is the reason that you are feeding your horse more? A lot of clients are surprised.
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Aug 31, 20212 min read
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Two Lessons about Horse Health from Wild Horses
By looking at wild or domestic horses that travel long distances over rugged terrain we can examine what factors contribute to soundness
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Aug 29, 20213 min read
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Treating Stomach Ulcers with Products from the Supermarket
Gastric ulcers in horses are very common. What can the horse owner do to help their horse manage ulcers naturally and affordably?
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Jul 25, 20216 min read
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Devil's Claw - A Natural Alternative to Bute for Chronic Pain
Natural, affordable pain relief for your horse - supported by evidence.
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Jun 28, 20214 min read
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5 ways to Combat Hoof Thrush with Household Products
Many of the off-the-shelf hoof products in the saddlery contain ingredients that are products you might already have at home
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May 23, 20213 min read
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On Worms and Wormers
Since we were all advised to worm every horse at six weekly intervals by an animal pharmaceutical industry keen to cash-in on that recommendation, we now have widespread resistance to the common equine wormers that are available on the market. The tricky thing about worming is that there is so much contradicting advice. There are those who would have us feed our horses diatomaceous earth or pumpkin seeds. There is no evidence that any natural therapies work at all, but the la
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Feb 26, 20214 min read
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Growing Quality Hooves
How can you improve the quality of the hoof your horse is growing?
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Feb 18, 20213 min read
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Scrambling. What can you do about it?
What is scrambling and what can you do about it.
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Feb 10, 20214 min read
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Can you make my black horse blacker? Yes! ...Maybe
A faded, rusty or dull-looking coat can be a symptom of copper deficiency and we can assist by adding copper, but it’s not so simple.
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Jan 26, 20214 min read
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