People who have never personally experienced a horse in this state call it ‘bad behaviour’ and put it down to ‘lack of discipline’ or...

The situation most people find themselves in is where keeping their horse on a green paddock all year round is their only option and we...

Innate Nutritional Wisdom? Who has it? Most humans don’t. Rather we are more inclined to eat ourselves sick, mainly due to lack of...

Understandably many horse owners don’t have much of an understanding of what ‘Good nutrition’ means. If the horse’s diet is not meeting...

Forage analyses of Cow Parsley and Cleavers bring up surprising results! We are all for adding diversity to the horses diet but only if...

Interestingly this example plus one relating to fresh herbs like Cleavers & Cow Parsley in Part 2 reveal surprising results. These are...

What is normal? Horses typically urinate every 4 hours or so and produce 5–15 L of urine per day. (The bladder can hold 3–4 L of urine)....

Of course CHH would advocate that grass-free options (not just yards or stables) need to be standard facilities when charging for grazing.

Horses need appropriate Forage/Nutrition as well as Appropriate Movement/Social Interaction with other horses and an appropriate, safe...

The majority of ‘grass-affected’ horses show signs of increased sensitivity/excitability eg: footy, spooky, hyper-sensitive,...

Believe it or not, laminitis and headshaking have the SAME root cause. (as do the vast plethora of other troubles horse owners face (SIJ,...

While there is consensus that increasing bio-diversity in our horse’s diets is desirable, there are two schools of thought as to the...

Most horse owners are aware that any changes to the horses diet should be made gradually in order to give the flora populations of the...

The horse’s hooves need to be both robust and at the same time sensitive to pressure so they can safely negotiate various terrain. The...

The feedback we receive from cases everywhere, all of whom have their different vets/farriers/trimmers/nutritional approaches, means we...

Rightfully so, there is a lot of attention placed on the equibiome and its effect on the horse and his health. The following study done...