Tag: natural

Toxins in your Horse’s Environment 

4 September, 2025

Toxins in Your Horse’s Environment: What You Need to Know. As horse owners, we do everything we can to keep our equine friends healthy from quality feed to regular vet checks. But one area that often gets overlooked is the environment they live in. Subtle toxins in paddocks, stables, and even hay can have a real impact on your horse’s health over time.  Weed Control Chemicals: A Hidden Risk  Many horse owners use chemical sprays to control weeds in paddocks and on hay crops. While these products can be effective at keeping pastures looking tidy, they contain chemicals that may…

Flea Control – Natural Alternatives

11 April, 2024

Flea Control – Natural alternatives are available so you don’t need to poison your animals with chemicals or drugs. Did you know? Choose Natural Alternatives Flea Control using natural alternatives can work equally effectively as the chemical products but will require more frequent use than the artificial treatments. It’s concerning when anthing topical has a warning to avoid contact with human skin yet is supposedly okay to apply to your animal’s skin? (Why is this supposedly okay… I wonder?) Personally, anything that is not safe for human skin contact should not be used on an animal. Regular grooming and running a flea comb…

Horse Diet – Feeding Naturally

9 July, 2021

Horse diets vary significantly based on the individual horse and its regular activities. The nutritional needs of a racehorse, for instance, are markedly different from those of a weekend leisure pony. The following is provided as a basic guideline and will need to be varied according to your horse’s breed, workload, and nutritional needs. Horses are grazing animals and naturally cover extensive distances in the wild (averaging 30+ km daily) to find food and water. Wild horses spend around 18-20 hours daily grazing on native grasses with relatively low nutritional content. This differs from the lifestyle of most domestic horses,…

Cat Diet – Feeding Naturally

3 September, 2020

Cats are strict carnivores and have a high protein requirement. Their diet should be totally raw, and should not contain any canned or dry foods. They can not survive on a vegetarian or vegan diet. 90% daily ration * It is good to include some large chunks of meat to encourage chewing.* If feeding minced meat, ensure it is free from all preservatives. 10% daily ration Optional extras How much to feed The amounts fed can vary depending on how active your cat is, so this is a rough guide only and you may increase or decrease quantities to ensure…

Fussy eater no more!

8 July, 2020

Fussy eater no more! I would just like to let you know how well my dog is doing since starting on your supplement, she was a very on and off eater, she is fed natural food, no dry dog food and eats all of her food raw, including vegetables. I put the Essentials in with her vegetable mix and she does not miss one meal now, she is a working dog, doing walking twice a day, backpacking in which she has achieved her Qld title, she also goes gig racing in the winter and this season starts weight pull, she also swims…

Coats Silky Soft & Smelling fresh

8 July, 2020

Coats Silky Soft & Smelling fresh Really love using DerMagic Peppermint & Tea Tree Conditoner on my big dogs after they come home from the beach. I don’t shampoo first – just rinse the sand off and then apply a big squirt of this conditioner …their coats dry silky soft and smelling fresh and stay this way for a week or two. – Anon

Urinary Incontinence – Help with ‘puddle problems’

21 March, 2018

Does your dog or cat need help with ‘puddle problems’ Urinary incontinence ? A damp and smelly pet, or a pet who doesn’t quite make it to the litter box or garden can become a frustration, and the constant washing and deodorising can become a burden for the household dealing with the issue. What Is Urinary Incontinence? This “leaky” problem is basically the loss of bladder control in your pet. The severity can range from occasional light leakage and dampness, to the point where they can’t hold on to alleviate themselves in the right spot – outside for dogs or…

Tips on Giving Herbal Remedies to Your Dog or Cat

15 March, 2018

Tips on Giving Herbal Remedies to Your Dog or Cat: We have listed some of our tips on giving herbal remedies or supplements to your dog or cat. The easiest way to give herbs or supplements to your pets is by mixing them into your dog or cats food. However, some cats or fussy dogs can smell anything added to their food and will refuse to eat it. So if you need to administer remedies regularly, this can become very distressing for both the animal and yourself. Once they see you with the bottle, they run a mile and hide!…

Raw Feeding Dogs & Cats – A Vet’s Perspective

28 July, 2016

Raw Feeding Dogs & Cats has been a much debated topic due to the potential risks of food poisoning, salmonella infection and the dangers of feeding bones to dogs. So it may be of interest to note that much of this information (or mis-information) relates back to the very nature of the gastric environment of the dog and cat, which in turn, is directly related to diet. Gastric Acidity, Digesting Bones, Gut Transit Time and Salmonella The gastric acidity (gastric pH) of the stomach of a dog or cat eating a diet predominantly made up of raw meat is very…

Pottenger Cat Study

15 April, 2016

The Pottenger cat study came about like many great discoveries, Dr Francis M Pottenger accidentally found that his laboratory cats were noticeably healthier when fed on a diet of raw meats rather than cooked meats. Dr Pottenger, a human doctor, was involved in using cats to assess the potency of adrenal extracts for use in human medicine. Pottenger’s cats were fed on table scraps from the local restaurant. When the restaurant closed during the off season, he was forced to source his meat scraps directly from the local abbatoir (which came raw). During the time he was feeding the raw…

Laminitis and Founder – What to watch out for

6 April, 2016

There is a difference between laminitis and founder – Laminitis is inflammation of the laminae (which is the tissue that attaches the coffin bone to the hoof wall). Founder, is where the laminae have let go allowing the coffin bone to ‘sink’ within the hoof capsule. Laminitis nearly always precedes founder. Laminitis is a CHEMISTRY problem, which is relatively easy to rectify if action is taken early enough. However, once the laminae have ‘let go’, it is now a PHYSICAL injury or a mechanical problem which is a whole different kettle of fish to recover from. To rehabilitate a foundered…

Cool Energy Feeding for Horses

10 March, 2016

How do you know if a feed is going to be ‘heating’ for your horse? It is actually quite easy when you understand the following information on how the horse’s digestive system works. Food that is first chewed and thereby mixed with saliva passes into the stomach which has a very acidic environment because it is expecting to have to start the breakdown process of high fibre forage. This material then moves into the small intestine (which is actually quite long and narrow) where the ‘simple’ sugars (for example from growing grass or molasses) are quickly absorbed into the bloodstream….

Big Head disease recovery

30 September, 2015

Nutritional Secondary Hyperparathyroidism Recovery In December 2010 my horse was diagnosed with signs of big head disease. The swellings on each side of her head were extremely large and appeared over a matter of weeks. She was reluctant to go forward and spent hours each day standing around with an extremely depressed look in her eye. Her coat was dull. When she was ridden it was almost impossible to get her to canter and when she did she had very short, choppy strides. Apart from the facial swellings the other signs I mentioned appeared twelve months before she was diagnosed,…

Equine Lethargy Mystery Solved!

24 September, 2015

One day I noticed my horse had suddenly become very stiff, and was dragging his front legs and appeared quite lethargic. I knew something was wrong as he was normally very forward moving and this particular day, he just seemed really tired. I had only had Chief for about 5 or 6 months but he was always energetic. I had noticed he was spooking at things a lot more frequently than he had when I first got him, but didn’t make any connection with this at the time. I took him to our vet who said he was most likely tying-up so we treated…

Calm Healthy Horses Plan

8 September, 2015

Tick off any symptoms that you find from the Horse Symptom Checklist. Make the recommended diet changes in the CalmHealthyHorses Plan for one month, then, revisit the Checklist. If necessary continue the process for another month or until your horse is completely back to normal. This may take several months for more serious problems such as Head-Flicking. The Calm Healthy Horses Plan will help eliminate digestive flora problems, mineral imbalances, mycotoxin overload and correct the natural buffering system. Your horse will be calm and healthy and riding will be enjoyable again. Introduce any new feeds or supplements slowly, over a period of…

Flea Control – Natural Alternatives

8 September, 2015

Flea Control – Natural alternatives are available so you don’t need to poison your animals with chemicals or drugs. Did you know? Choose Natural Alternatives Natural treatments can work equally effectively as the chemical products but will require more frequent use than the artificial treatments. It’s concerning when anthing topical has a warning to avoid contact with human skin yet is supposedly okay to apply to your animal’s skin? (Why is this supposedly okay… I wonder?) Personally, anything that is not safe for human skin contact should not be used on an animal. Regular grooming and running a flea comb through the coat…

Healthy Fast Food For Your Pets

8 September, 2015

You can provide Healthy Fast Food For Your Pets with little fuss to ensure they stay healthy and happy. We all know the old saying ‘you are what you eat’, and if this is the case, then it is no wonder that our loyal companions are suffering from such a variety of acute and chronic health complaints. Can you imagine living on take away food your whole life? Some animals have never eaten any fresh food, living on processed foods totally. It is certainly possible to do, but you could not expect to be feeling fantastic all the time on this…