Many years ago Sharon and I decided to drive to Glen Rose, TX to visit the Fossil Rim Wildlife Center. As it states on their website, The Fossil Rim Wildlife Center exists to aid in the conservation of animal species under the threat of extinction in the wild. The experience was fascinating and if you’re ever in Texas it’s a great place to visit. It’s also a place you can put on your list for donations each year. [Read more…]
Natural Horse Care – Who Do You Believe?
This article is somewhat similar to one of our previously published articles called What Does Non-Traditional Really Mean? It’s “outside the norm“… depending on what “the norm” means to you.
Putting a natural horse care program in place when first starting out can be a challenging task. Like most industries, everyone has an opinion. I have come to find that the horse industry can be pretty extreme when it comes to most any topic. The “extreme” aspect usually resides on both sides of the spectrum.
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Acres USA – A Voice for Eco-Agriculture Review
In this article, I introduce you to another product as part of our Product and Service Review Series. I’m excited to bring this review of Acres USA to you. I hope that after reading it you’ll understand why I feel so strongly about their overall mission.
Many years ago, when I started on my path of learning about improving my health through proper nutrition, I never realized what would be involved. I started down this path as a young woman in my early twenties. At that time, all I wanted was to find ways to improve my athletic performance for playing college basketball.
Although I was doing most everything wrong from a diet standpoint, I learned at a young age that feeding my body correctly and staying healthy can be challenging.
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Natural Hoof Care for a Healthy Hoof – Hoof Form Samples
Ransom Performs at a Texas Parelli Event in 2009
In an article I published called Natural Hoof Care For A Healthy Hoof – Six Ways To Read Horses’ Hooves I listed some general guidelines you can use to identify healthy hooves in domesticated horses.
It is important to understand that there are no hard and fast rules and that most any rule has an exception …especially when it comes to an animal such as the horse who has survived for millions of years.
One of the most important lessons to take away from this series on identifying a healthy hoof is that there is more than one wild horse model. Hoof Form is all about adaptation and it can vary significantly from biome to biome. [Read more…]
Natural Hoof Care for a Healthy Hoof -Six Ways to Read Horses’ Hooves
I love the saying “our eyes are the windows to our souls.”
Let’s take that a step further and say, “Our horses’ hooves are the windows to their bodies.”
In a previous natural hoof care articles, I discussed the importance of looking at the horse from a whole-body standpoint.
In those articles, I mentioned that the hoof is a by-product of most everything else that’s going on in the body.
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