Recent content by emmawakefield

I've got 2 horses on box rest at the moment after they had a bust up in the field and are both in 3-layer bandages which need changing every 3 days, so I feel like I spend my life bandaging!

There seems to be loads of horses about with liver problems at the moment. As others have said, feed as low protein diet as possible. I would give your horse a detox with aloe vera (I always do this at this time of year after doing the 'big tapeworm worm' and to help them through season...

Check the ingredients list very carefully! There are a couple of cheap products on the market (from big brand names) that contain lots of fillers and preservatives and not a lot of actual ingredients! One famous one has less than 5g of glucosamine per dose, and recommended for a horse is 12g...

As I understand it, MSM is bio-available sulphur. The fibres in all connective tissue are held together by sulphur bonds, so by feeding MSM you may be able to help strengthen these sulphur bonds to help prevent the fibres being torn apart as in a ruptured tendon. I believe MSM also has...