Hemp for horses
How would you like to give your horse a super food that can ease joint pain and inflammation, support cardiovascular health, improve the condition of…
Category: Horse Nutrition
Natural Supplements for Your Horse
There are many natural supplements and beneficial ingredients for your horse. You just have to do your research, know what is lacking in your area…
Equine Nutrition: Understanding Labels
Nowadays, marketing strategies can make any supplement or feed seem like the next miracle product. Going by all the claims out there, we should have…
Freshwater Blue Green Algae
“Blue green algae and sea minerals can be used for a variety of problems including low heels, weak and crumbling hoof walls, and laminitis.” Your…
Slow Feeding Systems
Slow feeding is a term that’s much more widely understood and accepted now than it was even a few years ago. With more products and information…
Spring Grazing and Insulin Resistance
Spring is here, but we need to take it slowly when transitioning our horses from hay to pasture grazing. And for those of us with…
Horse Diet
A horse’s diet and the amount he is fed should depend on work requirements and body condition. Modern horses are often overfed and do very…
5 elements of Chinese Medicine: Water Horse
All horses embody common physical and behavioral characteristics of the Five Elements of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) – Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water. By…
Chinese Medicine – Metal & Earth Horse
The stocky school horse plods around and around the ring with a young rider on his back. He is kind and slow, providing a safe…
Amino Acids
There are 20 amino acids known that make up the building blocks for mammalian body protein. Approximately one-half of the amino acids are considered essential…
5 Elements of Chinese Medicine – Fire Horse
Is your horse flashy, sociable and easy to train? Is he sensitive, unfocused and vulnerable to anxiety? If so, he might be a Fire horse.…
Excessive Supplementation
Feeding a general nutritional supplement and a hoof supplement (or any two supplements) at the same time is generally not recommended. Why? Because it is…