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Grass As Food For Horses

By Dr. Joyce Harman

Horse owners rarely think of being a true farmer, but, in fact we all are grass growers, which qualifies us as farmers. So, we need to think a bit more about how to grow healthy grass, and to recognize when our grass needs attention.

As we think about the horse from a holistic perspective, we must look at the food we feed them. Not just that bag of grain full of preservatives, or the supplements we endlessly feed them, but the mainstay of their diet, the grass they eat on a daily basis.
But, you say, we fertilize regularly and spray for weeds periodically. The grass looks wonderful, in fact sometimes it is so rich we cannot turn the horses out on it for long periods of time because they will get too fat or even founder. Great, but is that a healthy thing to have happen? Read the rest of this entry »