'Mad Maddie'
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How Fiona transformed Mad ‘Maddie’
Here is a great story that came in today - thank you Fiona for sharing exactly what you did. A classic example of how looking at the total diet made all the difference in the end...
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"Hi Jenny,
This is ‘Maddie’ who has been transformed since using Calm Healthy Horses products and following your grazing instructions. The photo was taken at our recent Gisborne Dressage Championships, where we won Reserve Champion in the Introductory section. A major achievement for a horse who would spook at the horse in the next door arena in the middle of her test, sending us both sailing to the furthest point in full fright flight mode!!!!
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Being able to participate at the dressage competition was not bad for week 6 on Calm,Healthy Horse products, where normally there would have been lots of head flicking, spooking, (as in flying across the arena), unable to concentrate to maintain any rhythm, and lots of over-reaction to requests to change gait!
She is now a pleasure to ride to the beach, and to do dressage and sports events.
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The following video shows Maddie with a little friend riding her at a children's sports event, completing a little show hunter course.
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It is now week 10 on Calm Healthy Horse products, showing you a perfectly behaved, relaxed happy pony! Maddie and Karma the little girl both love to jump!
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Maddie is 14.2hh, East Coast Bred, Whangara (where the movie Whale Rider was filmed!).
I followed your instructions as best I could by putting her in a paddock with plenty of shade and a shed, the same as a dry lot.
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She had unlimited meadow hay soaked.
Two feeds a day of MVA Minerals, GrazeEzy, and SOS following the Packet instructions ( I increased the SOS on about week 3, after discussions with you).
Her feed remained the same Gum nuts and meadow chaff, lots of salt.
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I needed to mix all this with watered down molasses as she was being picky - which did the trick and she would lick the bucket clean.
The last issue she had was cough/runny nose, and this disappeared about week 10.
I wished I had followed your whole process from the start instead of trying bit and pieces of yours and other what I thought were cheaper products, because I could have solved all my problems several years ago!!!!"
Fiona S.
Gisborne