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Three Ways Your Horse Can Benefit from Aquatic Therapy For decades, doctors have recommended swim therapy to treat human ailments such as back pain, joint pain and muscle and tendon rehabilitation. Swimming grants the body full range of motion wi…

There was such an amazing response to last week’s blog about management of chronic back pain at home and so much information I simply couldn’t squeeze into a single blog post that adding a “Part 2” seemed only fitting. I’m not sure t…

Equine allergies come in all shapes and sizes and rarely fit in a neatly outlined box with a generic treatment protocol. That’s what I had always been told and what turned out to be all too true with my horse, Mo. His battle with seasonal alle…

Let’s face it, there’s A LOT of stigma, hype and superstitions surrounding the ingredient psyllium use in horses. Traditionally, it’s been used for sand clearance in seven-day purges but, do you know why you feed it that way? Do you k…

It’s like those annoying word association exercises you had to do as a middle school student: “swing” is to “playground” as “chocolate chip” is to “cookie”. As horse people, ours has evolved into something along the lines of: “flunixin” is to…