Tag: horse health

Toxins in your Horse’s Environment 

4 September, 2025

Toxins in Your Horse’s Environment: What You Need to Know. As horse owners, we do everything we can to keep our equine friends healthy from quality feed to regular vet checks. But one area that often gets overlooked is the environment they live in. Subtle toxins in paddocks, stables, and even hay can have a real impact on your horse’s health over time.  Weed Control Chemicals: A Hidden Risk  Many horse owners use chemical sprays to control weeds in paddocks and on hay crops. While these products can be effective at keeping pastures looking tidy, they contain chemicals that may…

PSSM vs ‘Grass Affected’ Is there a difference?

12 July, 2021

Our observation is that horses exhibiting PSSM symptoms can also be found anywhere that grass grows and the horse is not being managed in such a way as to prevent the grass causing issues for that horse. In some cases where green grass isn’t part of the horse’s diet, the hay needs to be checked/analysed. ​There are far too many similarities for this to be merely coincidence ​Compare the list below which is from the following link:       http://www.pssm.eu/en/symptoms–of-pssm.html with the Calm healthy horses – Horse symptom Checklist ​Comparing the two lists we found Like ‘grass-affected’ horses there is a wide variety…

Autumn’s classic issues for horses

2 March, 2021

The onset of Autumn; warm sunny days, cooler night time temperatures accompanied by rainfall brings about a change in the nutrient profile of the grass. Having an understanding of how the grass can cause various health and behavioural issues can save you a lot of time and money potentially spent ‘barking up the wrong tree’! The best tool to ascertain whether issues are grass related is to check the Horse Symptom Checklist. Here are some of the classic issues we see in Autumn: Edema’s: Swellings on various, sometimes odd, parts of the body such as the cheeks, shoulders, lower legs…

Not an allergy after all!

2 December, 2019

This is one of those cases where there was a simple answer to a seemingly complex problem. “Jenny from Calm Healthy Horses saved my beautiful horses life.I honestly can’t thank her enough for what she has done.10 months ago my horse got extremely sick, swollen sheath, his legs, stomach, chest were so swollen skin was hanging.He was lumpy, scabby and all his hair had fallen out, he was so itchy he would run around the paddock after me in hope I would scratch him. He was absolutely miserable my poor boy, it broke my heartI spent thousands of dollars on…