10/30/2026
COLIC ALERT
Last night we had another one. The weather transitions we've had this year have turned this into a true colic season.
Here is what happened. Kathleen and I did a late night check on the barn, and the horse, Nifty, was acting completely out of character: pawing at the ground, nipping his sides, all the "signs." (You can see how his back is hu**ed and his tail is showing distress. He's grunting and groaning while I'm spraying him.)
We grabbed Natural Release® and did two sessions about 10 minutes apart. This video is the second session. The video sound quality is bad and you can't hear me, but at the end I turn to Kathleen and say, "We've got movement." Nifty's stomach started rumbling and gurgling and a few minutes after this video he had a bowel movement. We set up a Ring camera in his stall and moniterd him into the early hours of the morning, and all remained good.
Before I go on with the explanation, I want to be clear. Natural Release® is an excellent "tool" for colic. It is something to keep on hand when you go to the barn on that cold winter night and find a miserable, unhappy horse. That said, we do not consider it a "cure." We use it at the first signs of distress. We spray and rub immediately. Then we start all the other protocols. IE: Hand walking, eurosizer, trailer rides, and continual intermintant NR sprays/rubs
Now here is the backstory of how we learned to use it for colic: Many years ago a customer wrote in and told her story about colic and Natural Release®. (Basically she panicked when her horse went into full distress, saw her bottle of Natural Release® on the shelf, and used it out of sheer hope and desperation.) Her story ended exactly like ours did last night.
After hearing her story, I posted on FB asking everyone to try it as a tool for colic so we could get more feedback. Was it a fluke?
Since then, we have well over a thousand success stories.
If you have some Natural Release® in the barn, please keep this info in the back of your mind. According to the Fb comments that are coming in, it has made a huge difference for many horses.
Take care, Heath, VP
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