Blogs

Chia/Spirulina/Manuka for the Treatment of Equine Sarcoids using the NON-boosted formulation of the StableFeed Spirulina Chia  Materials and Methods Three horses with a total of 10 sarcoids were enrolled in the trial. Two horses were mares, and one was a stallion. The mares were 8 and 8 years old...

What It Can And Cannot Tell You This online podcast about microbiome testing was been sent to me by several clients so I thought I would share it with all of you. There is a lot of good information presented! The first half of this podcast is a discussion on allergy testing. I do not have an opin...

In Fall the temperatures drop, the circadian rhythm slows, the days get shorter, the quality of forage diminishes, and harvest activities cast particulate matter into the air.

For our Summer Blend we include plants with high mucosal properties to help coat and soothe the unprotected part of the horse's stomach.

Toxins are ubiquitous in the equine environment. As horse owners, we’re on high alert regarding additives and chemicals that cause immediate toxicity (i.e. ionophores). However, despite an increasingly robust scientific record we tend to ignore the information related to the cascade of long-term ...

Lego, an adorable Mustang adopted from the wild.  Location, location, location! There is no good location for a sarcoid, but as far as “bad” locations go, the mouth and muzzle have to be ranked in the top five. You can buy topical treatments that burn sarcoids off but the application of that kind...

This is an example of why we wish the veterinary community would pay a little more attention to some of the alternative, science-backed therapies that are available for horses with sarcoidosis and consider utilizing them as adjunct therapies to potentially reduce recovery time and improve surgica...

A 2019 episode of Shankar Vedantam’s Hidden Brain featured Cailin O’Connor, a professor at UC-Irvine who studies how social networks shape our core beliefs. Ms. O’Connor explains how social trust is at the heart of how people form their beliefs, and that few of our beliefs actually rely on direc...