Customer Reviews

Natural Horse Care

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Truly a must read. It really puts horse care back to 101. If you thought it was complicated, it truly is simple. I wish my own personal health care was that simple. In particular adding the seaweed supplement makes a huge difference in how the horses assimilate their feed. They seem so much more efficient. In any event, read it. It will not only teach you about feed, but also pasture management. Something so much ignored.

Pat explains how over the 70 years that she has been working with horses diseases have developed in horses that never existed previously. The use of artificial fertilizers being the main reason - which ties up the minerals in the soil - especially the really important ones for horses!

She tells you how to simply remineralize your soil and will save you lots of money which you spend on expensive chelated processed vitamin and mineral supplements you don't need.

She has a simple treatment using minerals and vitamins for every ailment, but her main concern in the book is with getting the pH and the mineral content of your paddocks balanced and 'available' for use by your horse.

Every horse owner should read this book so they have an understanding of equine nutritional needs. Thus book also does a great job providing resolutions to common issues & ailments. Please for your horses welll being, read and reread this book. It gives a great receipe for a mineral. Items like kelp, copper sulfate, dolomite, and sulfur are great for your horses.

Great book about natural horse care. Good for a beginner, or someone who wants to do it the right way.
Easy to understand. Like her writing

I recommend this book to all first time horse owners and any horse owner interested in going natural. This is my first choice off the shelf and my go to for most equine problems.

While this book doesn't cover more than a sliver of natural medicine, It is an enjoyable read and is a very useful and simple reference book. Pat Coleby only covers in some detail the use of dolomite, seaweed meal, sulfur, vitamin C, copper, and a handful of other items, but they are usually effective as well as cost effective.

This book is fantastic if you are looking for an alternative to conventional, chemical heavy, horse care. Colbey offers great advice to get your soil healthy so your animals will be healthy. I bought all of her books after reading this.

Terrific reference! Now I need to tell my co-op man ... "I read this book and ..."

This is one of the best practical horse care book available. It is a no nonsense approach using proper nutrition to correct a wide variety of health issues affecting horses.

This book could be more thorough; however, it is great for a novice to natural horse care.

I am interested in this book as the author shares the same name as me. I would like to be able to speak with the author direct.