3 tips to prevent colic in your horse.

Horses are ‘monogastric herbivores’ or, in layman’s terms,  vegans with one stomach. Horses are well designed for their original environment where they traveled for many kilometres and grazing up to 16 hours per day. They are not so well designed for the domestic environment with limited pasture diversity and one or two feeds per day […]

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Is Iodine the right stuff for your horses wound?

At our First Response workshop yesterday I covered the topic of what to use to clean and heal wounds.  I talk about the products that shouldn’t be used on wounds.  At every workshop almost everyone is surprised to hear that Betadine should not be used on wounds as a first line cleaning solution.  Horse owners […]

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Not all Honey’s are Equal in Equine Wound Care

The use of medical-grade honey in wound care in humans is backed by some serious high-level studies.  Recently this has been further supported in horses by a research study conducted by the University of Sydney Veterinary Department. so what kind of honey should you use on your horses wound? Medical grade honey is classified as […]

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