Encysted Worms: Should I Be Worried?
After my recent posts on worming and fecal egg counts, one question kept coming up: “If fecal egg counts don’t detect encysted worms, how…
Category: Horse Care
How to take Fecal Egg Counts
How to Know What’s Actually Going on Inside Your Horse — The Fecal Egg Count Explained In my last post I talked about worming…
Strategic Worming for Horses: A Natural, Sustainable Approach
Are You Worming Your Horse Out of Habit — Or Out of Need? Here’s a question: when did you last worm your horse, and…
When Fencing Fails – and the Lesson I’ll Never Forget
When “Safe Enough Fencing” Isn’t Safe A few weeks ago, I lost my beautiful Arabian mare, Aria.Her death wasn’t from old age, or an…
Horse-Safe Herbs & Shrubs
Healing Horse-Safe Herbs & Shrubs for Your Border Garden Growing a garden just for your horses beside the paddock or yard not only looks…
Hybrid Horse Keeping – Equicentral and Tracks combined
There are many ways to achieve what you want and just as many opinions on what is best when it comes to keeping your…
Amazing Healing of Horse’s Huge Flank Wound
Warning: this post contains some graphic images of wounds and blood. Keeping horses will always involve coping with injuries. This is one of the…
Insight To Equus by Tomas Teskey
A Holistic Veterinary perspective on health and healing. The equine world would be a better place if this 250-page color-filled hardbound book was on…
Aiming for self-trimming horse hooves
By Cynthia Cooper A self-trimming horse is a barefoot horse that wears their hooves naturally, without the intervention of tools to maintain soundness and…
Would Your Horse’s Noseband Pass the Pressure Test?
If you use a flash or drop noseband, you may be surprised at the results of a recent preliminary equine study. Jayne Peters from…
Ask Cynthia – ‘Hoof Handling Problem’
I wonder if you can help me. I have been practicing natural horsemanship for over 5 years and am learning every day. I have…
Spare a thought for the average racehorse
by Cynthia Cooper Recently we had Melbourne Cup Day where the whole of Australia comes to a standstill at about 3pm to listen to,…
The Plight of Ponies By Vanessa
At an agricultural field day, I came across a small metal pen housing cute young miniature ponies. Three of them were in a tiny…
Travelling by boat to Flinders Island
by Cynthia Cooper Have you ever thought how would your horse cope if it had to be transported by boat….in a ‘bull crate’? A…
Why I Use Chemical Wormers – Encysted Strongyles
By Cynthia Cooper I would love to be able to worm my horses more naturally, and years ago I tried it that way, but…