Stories from the herb garden
Learn about keeping your horse in optimum health, naturallyHealing Sarcoids – A Natural Solution
Peggy is my Chestnut Thoroughbred Mare so it’s not often she is perfect! But right now, after struggling to heal a sarcoid on her off shoulder for some considerable time, she is perfect, as it is totally healed! Sarcoids are ugly things and we're often left wondering...
The Secret to Show Horse Success: A Balanced Body and Mind
As all showies know, getting their horses into the ring just right every time, is not easy. One of the conundrums is getting the balance right between body condition and energy levels. Most judges want to see horses and ponies in big condition, but at the same time...
Breeding The Natural Way
Sally Mills from Pine Mountain in Qld has been a client for many years. Sally has bred some lovely Trakehner horses and her beautiful mare Scally delivered her first foal in text book style on 20th November. Here is Scally just before foaling looking a picture of...
Healing Wounds With Herbs
Renee Staffleu from Linthorpe Qld has been a client for several years. Recently she was in touch about one of her horses Leggo who had sustained a very deep cut to the neck which we both thought required stitches, but she was unable to get a vet to attend to him in...
Making It Possible For Possum
Back in May last year Lynda Sells from Jimboomba Qld consulted me for help with her daughter Tatum’s 9 year old chestnut Thoroughbred gelding Possum. Their vet had diagnosed a viral infection with highly elevated inflammatory markers and the blood test came back...
Faecal Water Syndrome
Faecal Water Syndrome as it is now known has become common in the last two years. Initially it was particularly associated with horses who were subjected to extreme and continuing rainfall and flooding, and who were forced to eat waterlogged grasses and poor quality...
My Irish Filly
Even though I get a lot of international requests for consultations, I usually refer them on to colleagues where possible, but when John Martyn contacted me from County Galway in Ireland, with his Irish Sport Horse filly foal, I was happy to help. The filly was only 4...
Persevering With Percy
When Sallie met Percy back in 2013 she fell in love with the very handsome Percheron gelding. She bought him even though he had a severe case of thrush, and a week later her farrier gave her the bad news that it was a hoof canker. At that time she was living in Nimbin...
Equine Inflammatory Airway Disease – Herbal Solution
Liz Healy from Samford in Qld contacted me in September last year for help with her beloved Thoroughbred mare Elle who was suffering badly from inflammatory airway disease. For the previous six years Elle and Liz had completed many heavy duty trail rides and Elle was...
A Journey with a Special OTTTB
Looking a picture of confidence, but the transition from the racetrack to the competition arena is usually a long journey. Here’s how Yvette did it, ultimately with the help of a VF Natural Diet and Herbal Treatment Program. She bought Cuzi sight unseen (usually not...