by Victoria Ferguson | Feb 12, 2021 | Events, News
South Australian show horse rider Brianna Duncan has been a highly successful show rider for the past 10 years, currently with Deevie (Double TT De-Vita), and has recently started dressage competition with her Warmblood gelding Felix (Heathmont Formula One). The...
by Victoria Ferguson | Jan 19, 2021 | Herbal Medicine, Off the Track Thoroughbreds
Published in Horse Vibes Magazine Nov/Dec 2020, is this great story written by Amanda McWhinnie …. A practising equine herbalist for 25 years, VICTORIA FERGUSON has been instrumental in the healing of many injured and sick horses – but few needed her help quite as...
by Victoria Ferguson | Nov 13, 2020 | Cushings Disease
TEDDY’S MAKEOVER From a shaggy old pony with no life force … To a much smoother look and keen to get out and about ..Teddy’s devoted owner Leanne Landy takes up the story … My horse Teddy who is 24 years young, was diagnosed with Cushing’s early in May this year....
by Victoria Ferguson | Nov 6, 2020 | Abscesses
Hoof abscesses are a common problem for horses and their carers, so here’s how to heal them naturally. Sudden and extreme lameness in one leg, is the usual symptom of a hoof abscess, together with a digital pulse. This is located in the artery running down the inside...
by Victoria Ferguson | Oct 23, 2020 | Equine First Aid
COMFREY Symphytum officinale (pic Comfrey growing in my garden before the drought). Right now Comfrey is springing back from its winter dormancy and drought decimation in places where it has rained and is ready for use by people smart enough to grow it. Comfrey is...
by Victoria Ferguson | Oct 15, 2020 | Laminitis, Stringhalt
Cindy from Oberon in NSW contacted me last year to treat one of her precious Shire horses who had come down with Stringhalt. Comet an 8-year-old 17.3 hand gelding was put onto clean pasture with his mates, and given his herbal medicine and special feed once a day by...
by Victoria Ferguson | Oct 9, 2020 | Garlic
Garlic has been used as a food and a medicine for humans for over six centuries and is now in widespread use as a feed supplement for horses all over the world. I have fed Garlic to my own horses for more than 15 years, and for the past 10 years have recommended it to...
by Victoria Ferguson | Sep 28, 2020 | Equine Poisons
Three of my horses enjoying a feed of Thistles I picked for them. THISTLES Thistles, also known as Sow thistle, rejoices in the Latin name of Sonchus oleraceus and is widespread throughout the world. According to Pat Collins well-known herbalist, teacher and author,...
by Victoria Ferguson | Sep 18, 2020 | Gut Ulcers
Long time client Lorraine Dini from South Australia, has sent these very interesting before and after photos and case history about her new Standard bred gelding, Tommy. “My new horse Tommy a 9-year-old Standardbred gelding arrived at my stables on the 27 June. He...
by Victoria Ferguson | Jul 27, 2020 | Holistic Health
The health of the soil and the plants that grow in it and how it is managed or mismanaged by man is the baseline of horse health. And of course the health of all animals including humans. The major impacts are from Glyphosate: Super Phosphate: GMO’s: and Artificial...