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I would often get phone calls from horse owners worried that their horses were urinating blood after some snow had fallen. In every case there was a trace mineral salt block available. Removing it would clear up the dark red urine spot in the white snow.

When I collected during from ponies in metabolism stalls, the colors of using stratified… Read more

Thank you Jenny-I ordered the book you recommended.

What a fascinating question provoking me to read some to understand what rain water really is. And as usual I found conflicting answers depending on what part of the world it came from. And all involved humans.

From what I can tell, drinking collected rain water has no ill effects in humans and assume in horses. Rain water is more… Read more

Thank you. I am inclined to agree with you. I’ll be interested to hear what you think about this book.

Thank you for this reference.

I am starting to realize that a flexible diet is what works. A bit of this and a bit of that. Take down a bison and eat it and then go without meat for a long time. The natural ebb and flow of the seasons. Lush pasture then dormant pasture plus miles of migration. Give the digestive tract and metabolism a chance… Read more

Thanks @AngelaM – it is amazing to think that what we eat can affect our disposition. Oops. I mean what our horses eat….

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I enjoyed reading your findings Emily! I found my mustang cross laying down napping when I thought he would normally be demanding food as well. I really enjoy seeing that. Also when I lead him out to hand graze for a few minutes (grazing paddocks shut down for winter here in Canada) he now walks calmly beside me. He used to trot trying to… Read more

I do have a more willing horse for sure and he seems more content and not constantly hungry. He also seems a better pasture mate to our standardbred. I used to rush out in the morning to feed because he would start running the standardbred which I thought was frustration and hunger. Well it was but the solution was not adding more hay… Read more