Lovely green pasture - makes you feel good just to look out on it doesn't it.  Or that lovely fresh smell you get when you open an very expensive bag of horse feed.  You just know your horse is getting all the goodies he needs to stay well .................think again.  What your horse is eating every day may be slowly destroying his health.


Are you feeding your horses like cows?

Horse owners Australia wide are getting the totally wrong information on the dietrary needs of their horses.  Information sourced from studies done on pastures that are designed for fattening up cattle.   Feed companies and even Nutritionists working for them are basing their suggestions on incorrect information.

Even the trusted literature offered to horse owners from Agricultural Institutions has now been proven to be incorrect when it relates to the equine metabolism.  Horses quickly become insulin resistant on these diets with all the horrible health consquences that follow.  Many living all the time with sub clinical laminitis just waiting for a trigger to send them into full blown laminitis with all the drastic life threatening consequences that stem from it.

Please read the information offered by Dr. Kathryn Watts on her website. She came to be passionate about this aspect equine health because she foundered both her own horses by following exactly the dietary requirements offered to her by leading equine nutrition experts.  


Articles on Laminitis and Carbs in Forage by Kathryn Watts
with Support by The Animal Health Foundation

 

Articles by other authors


Are you killing your horses with kindness?

Dr. Ann Nyland researcher and best selling author strips away the hype, myths and empty claims surrounding many popular "natural" health methods for horses. While herself an advocate of "natural" she believes we need to be informed about certain products and methods and be wary of false claims about them.  We must make more informed choices.

Written for the layperson she researches many of the commonly held beliefs about herbs and feed additives and you will be surprised at the results and probably change some of your current feeding practices. 

For example she writes: "In this book I am not saying, "Do not use it because science hasn't yet found that it works," not at all! Far from it. I am saying "Here is cold hard evidence that certain things WILL harm your horse!"

See www.horsecarenatural.com to order.