Recent content by Fintan

What is Alfa A oil? Just Alfalfa and oil. Rapeseed oil. IN the meantime there are new studies about Alfalfa. Thanks god. Very bad calcium - phosphorous ratio, in many parts too much protein and an inhibitor for the uptake of zinc. Well nobody would buy a bag of hay for 15 pound or more, so it...

Well, I feed a couple of thousand horses in europe. No matter if family pony or group winning racehorse. Any feed you can buy in a bagged form in a shop is not working by "healthy ingredients" it is only working by marketing and a nice dress for to make you believe that you buy the very best...

The lab thing and nutrition is my job. And when you take all these tings apart, you willl relize that the biggest business of the feed industrie is selling dreams and not contents. Like JillA did say, protein is a building block. And if you overdue this you will keep liver and kidney busy...

Well Myoplast is Spirulina and when you follow the lab analysis of this you will figure out that a dose of 50 gram myoplast has not more lysin then 300 gram of oats or 160 gram of beetpulp.

Strangles allone not really. The treatment with penicillin can kill the intestinal flora and this could lead to some complications if the horse is sensitve to laminitis.

@ Ibot That is the reason for :) The name of my first accountant here was Fintan. The name is so rare that I have thought it might be a good nickname

@ wheels well here it is like this, if I want to go to a beach I have the option brittas bay which is one way about 2 hours driving. The forrest would be the slieve bloom mountains which is one way 1.5 hours drive. So if I could life close to the mountains and on a lake or the coast - beach...

Thanks. In the moment I am in the midlands close to Kildare. Maybe I am comming to the "midlife crisis" but it makes me sick that I have to load the horses for every little ..... I wont to do. I have had a permit for the slieve bloom mountains, but for this I am busy with packing, loading...

Maybe it is a strange question. But I hate "roadwork" and I want to enjoy my horses in the nature. I like the forrest, the coast but I am sick with road work. I like to hack out for hours, to enjoy the nature, on good ground and not to be chased by cars. So I am thinking about moving with my...

Castlelawn Galloway is not Irish, he is German - Oldenburg. http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/index.php?query_type=horse&h=CASTLELAWN+GALLOWAY&g=5&cellpadding=0&small_font=1&l=

The savest or easiest option would be a hair mineral analyses. A selenium test in the blood will cost about 50 Pound I believe. If you do a hair mineral analyses this will cost you about 80 Pounds but with this you will get every thing. The benefit is, these elements in the bloood are...

The chip has to come out because he will constantly irritate the joint. The spavin, well there is no final rule. there is to types, one is degenerating and the other one is the oposite. I have a mare, she is 6 and she has some spavin. Last year at this time I did an x ray and I did decide...

@ 2 Stroke I agree. This was meant in such a way that somethings are given unproofen to horses because there is a nice story around. Earlier it was with humans: Eat your spinach there is plenty of iron in and you will get strong as popey. So everybody had to eat spinach untill to the...

Hm, with the brewers yeast how to say his gentle, it is more or less a fairy tale. Yes of course yeast is higher in B vitamins than chocolate, but it is not what most people think. If we analyse yeast in a lab we will figure out that we have to feed up to 2.5 KG per day for to supply a...

Hm, is there any special health problems? I guess there will be some. I can`t send hay, I am a bit to far away. But I could do a diet for the horse once when I know what I have to deal with and provide the nutraceuticals and balancer for this case. But this will only work when they are...