Herbs - where do you buy yours?

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Hi there

I was hoping to get some advice from you all!

I want to buy herbs to add to my horse's feed, to make it a little more interesting for him. He's on Simple Systems Purabeet, Blue bag grass pellets and Lucienuts, and also brewer's yeast, microniseed linseed and seaweed.

Thanks to this forum, I now know about Charnwood Milling, and will be buying supplements from there in future.

Does anyone know where I can get other stuff like mint, rosehips, fennel, comfrey, fenugreek, nettle or a mix of various types of herbs at a reasonable price?

Thank you.
 
I've got plenty of nettles in my field you can have - pick them, wash them, tie them in a bunch and hang upside down in a warm, dark, dry place until dried and then crumble.
 
Cotswold herbs are the best I've found for price but you need to buy a fair amount to make it worthwhile postage wise.

I usually club together with some friends to buy enough to qualify for free postage.
 
Comfrey is hepatotoxic and has the same effect as ragwort.ot contains the same toxins. Please do not feed this to your horse.
 
In my experience herbs are REALLY expensive I'd add a carrot to make the feed more interesting. Much cheaper!!! Are you wanting herbs for a particular benefit or just for flavour? If your horse is happily eating it's current feed and there's no problem with them I personally would avoid the costly herbs, just let them graze somewhere there are mixed hedges so they can find anything they are lacking themselves.
 
At this time of the year I always pick and dry rosehips myself either in the airing cupboard or the oven on a low heat. The horses love these as treats and they are packed with vit C. I buy them from ebay if I run out for around £8 per kg. Nettles I cut and wilt myself to feed and the horses have lots of hedgerows to forage in also.
 
What I do is I stick them on my chip tray (holes throughout it) and leave them on top of the cooker and then everytime I cook in the oven when I turn it off I stick the tray in so the just get the diminishing oven heat. I do this 3 or 4 times over a week and they are generally done especially of hubby preheats the oven and I have forgotten to take them out :( a little crispy sometimes :eek: You could be less stingy and more organised than me and put them on a very low heat I would say for a couple of hours.
They take a goodly time to dry in the airing cupboard and I lost my chip tray for ages :)

Good idea about the treat ball and tastier than alpha nuts I am sure ;)
 
Thank you for all the replies. I'll compare all the websites and try and make up my mind - there's so many to choose from! Thank you for the warning about comfrey. I'll make sure I avoid this.

I'm ashamed to say that I'd rather pay for the convenience of having some ready-made herbs, rather than picking and preparing it myself. Maybe I'll try this when my lifestyle isn't so hectic any more.

Although my horse is now a veteran in light work, has had tendon problems and gassy colic in the past and now quite possibly arthritic, I just want to add some flavour to his feed, rather than treating these. He loves his food, but I thought I'd either add a mix of herbs every day, or alternate them, to keep him interested in it.
 
npage123 said:
Hi there

I was hoping to get some advice from you all!

I want to buy herbs to add to my horse's feed, to make it a little more interesting for him. He's on Simple Systems Purabeet, Blue bag grass pellets and Lucienuts, and also brewer's yeast, microniseed linseed and seaweed.

Thanks to this forum, I now know about Charnwood Milling, and will be buying supplements from there in future.

Does anyone know where I can get other stuff like mint, rosehips, fennel, comfrey, fenugreek, nettle or a mix of various types of herbs at a reasonable price?

Thank you.
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Try Suffolk Herbs. They supply seeds and meadow mixture, which can improve your grazing in the long term by recreating proper meadow.
 
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