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grazing

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...
equine diet

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....

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...

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...
5 Elements of Chinese Medicine – Fire Horse

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...

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...

Five Elements of Chinese Medicine

Each horse embodies common physical and behavioral characteristics of the Five Elements of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM). By understanding how Five Elements and their patterns...
fats

Fats

Everywhere you turn these days, people are talking about fats. More specifically, essential fatty acids or EFAs. Flax-based cereals jump out at us from...

Holistic Advice from an Expert

No stranger to holistic equine medicine, Dr. Kelli Taylor is a native western Washingtonian who grew up cultivating her love of horses from a...