Thanks Sandy_K for taking the “leap of faith.” Now we need more details.

1) What is the form and amount of exercise (riding, lounging, treadmill, ponying, etc)? Please include amount of time (45 min, etc) and the frequency (3x per week etc). Do you monitor the heart rate of the horse and if so, how? Do you work him into a sweat / hard…

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Welcome Chrissy! I love this part: ” I found looking for information on google/face book overwhelming/contradictory and confusing.” So true!

Sorry about the time difference but hope you can join us this Sunday at 8pm New York time to discuss “Aerobic exercise and its effect on insulin resistance.”

We are a small group today but we are a group…

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This article misses critical points that I will go over this Sunday in the Zoom meeting. In essence, there are 2 ways to get glucose into cells: insulin dependent and insulin independent. Exercise triggers the independent pathway. Further, increased body fat leads to the development of intracellular fat in the muscle cells. This is the first…

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Hi Zbear!

Personally I like the shotgun. I keep blasting away. Even though it isn’t very effective, I just feel better afterwards!

This is my way of saying how difficult it is to get flies under control on a horse farm. Let’s start by dividing the farm into 2 areas: inside the barn and outside the barn.

Inside the barn – The most effective…

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I’ll have an article on this by this Sunday evening. In essence, it is an immune suppression issue. For me, this is why only 1 or 2 horses get scratches in a herd turned out in the same environment. Topical remedies are abundant but until the underlying cause is improved, scratches (and rain rot) will continue. It is NOT the environment as…

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Hi Lei – thanks for joining this movement to help horse owners find the missing horse owner’s manual. You might not realize this but this membership site is only 2 weeks old! We did a soft launch to work out the kinks (and there were many) and a major launch is coming the end of this month. Think of it this way – you are one of the first to come…

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February 22, 2021

Hello everyone from Nashville, Tennessee! I’m on my final leg of my monthly excursion to some part of the US to work on the teeth of horses. This trip has been a bit of a mess due to winter storms with 3 days spent in a hotel room in states where they own no snow plows or salt.

Thankfully I’ll be heading south later today…

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I heard from a client yesterday as I worked on her 26 year old horse just how well this horse was doing on SBM. She reminded me of one more point to add to the SBM story – how much SBM should a horse be ingesting per day?

The human range is 0.5 to 1.0 g per pound of ideal body weight. Body builders know this and use the 1g/lb as their target.…

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In the near future I’ll be writing and podcasting on the effects of excess sugar in horses extrapolated from human research. It is critical to understand. I think the title will be, “How can my healthy looking horse be so unhealthy?”

Knowing what I know now – and that is changing even as early as this morning – excess sugar, especially in…

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Hey there Rosie! Congratulations on achieving Level 1 Certification. And welcome to the community barn!

You can be grateful for no flies! 🤠

Cold acclimation is standard but when it is unusual and sudden it can be a risk to many without preparation. But you seem to have the bases covered with rugs, blocked wind and heated water.

In my experience living in the northern climates, heated water is an amazing impaction colic prevention. We used…

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