Natural Horse Concepts That Help Your Horse Thrive™
Create a Mind Shift
Throughout history there have been individuals as well as groups of “secret” societies who risked their lives because of their beliefs and their strong sense of integrity. In most situations, these people went up against organizations with a lot of power and money.
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When I first started down the natural hoof care route in 2002, I struggled with the concept of creating more movement for my horses. I hated confining them to a “dry lot” and I couldn’t allow my laminitic-prone horse out on a big pasture with lush green grass.
I know that feeling of being torn between my horse not getting enough movement and the danger of turning her out on pasture during high-risk times of the year.
As I’ve stated in many of my previous articles, movement is the number one ingredient to a naturally healthy horse and especially for healthy hoof form.
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What’s the first horse keeping practice that benefits the overall health of your equine companion?
Imagine that you’ve just walked out to your barn or you’ve arrived at your boarding facility excited to spend time with your horse. She whinnies for you and as you approach her stall she tries so hard to stick her cute nose through the bars to greet you.
As you pull her out of the stall, she steps out somewhat stiff as she usually does. You don’t think anything of it because you’re use to this and you may even think it’s normal.
As equine caregivers, we often wonder if what we’re doing for our equine companions is in their best interest.
Could it be possible that your horse keeping is inferior and your equine partner is trying to tell you something? What your horse is probably trying to tell you is that you’re breaking the first rule of natural horse care.
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The Horses of Soulful EquineWhen you think of a domesticated horse, how do you picture it? What does its surroundings look like?
The average person may picture a healthy equine in a comfortable stall sticking her head out the door to say hi. The barn she lives in is immaculate and doesn’t even smell like horses live there.
Or…
You may picture horses grazing on lush green pastures where they look happy, fat and perfectly content.
Traditional boarding situations that include keeping horses in stalls, small paddocks or grazing on lush green pastures, is different than natural boarding.
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Sometimes common sense trumps empirical evidence.
– Dr. Mercola
What does “healthy as a horse” really mean? If you want a healthy horse who do you believe?
Just imagine yourself in a situation, like Scrooge, in the movie A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. No… I don’t mean imagine being “like Scrooge”, in the beginning he was not very kind, but imagine you have the ability to see the past, present and future when it comes to horse health… and so your journey begins.
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