01/08/2023
Just your periodic reminder of all the grass that isn’t growing in the U.S. Great Basin (an adaptive habitat) where horses like this beautiful, healthy, fit, wild and free-roaming stallion lives naturally.
Many horse owners (along with vets, farriers, trainers, breeders and other equine experts) have been brainwashed to believe that lush green pastures are a natural food item for the species. And many pharmaceutical companies bring in large amounts of money selling you concoctions to treat the symptoms of their various conditions resulting from this practice. If they lose their customers, they will go out of business or be forced to forge a different path.
Imagine if they decided to fund a genuine research study on the diet of these horses and actually tried to determine what all, how much, when and why they consume what they do to have bodies appear to be in such perfect condition - at a perfect weight - when we can’t even see all their sources of calories? Imagine if the study resulted in creating a supplement made of the nutrients that healthy horses living naturally actually need? This would be beneficial and profitable if the study was a genuine research project using biologists, botanists, geologists, anthropologists, etc. And there would be no need to sell you pharmaceuticals to treat IR, Cushings, Laminitis, EMS, etc. if you decide to stop doing all the wrong things. Jaime Jackson has been railing about the need to study these animals for years - so much of the ways that domestic horses are managed are based upon guessing. Or based upon research studies of unhealthy horses living in stalls, grazing in green pastures, are shod and fed foods that may or may not benefit them but often. - Jill
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