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14/10/2025

They say do what you love every day… so here’s to shovelling horse poo 😅🐴

12/10/2025

🧁 Stable mornings + pastries = happiness 🐴☕
If this lands on your feed, it’s a sign you deserve something sweet 💛

If you are in Chester or Liverpool then is your destination 🍰💛

The Coffee & Pastry Horse has spoken!

10/10/2025

Over £150 worth of prizes - just …for …. you!

✨ October HORSE fun ✨

One lucky winner will take home a bundle of horse goodies worth over £150:

🎁 Your choice of 5kg Horse Feed Balancer (any from our range)
🎁 Your choice of Saddle Pad (fig, white or marine – dressage or jump)
🎁 Horses Put Hoof Prints on Your Heart key ring
🎁 Forageplus Supplement Shaker
🎁 Forageplus Baseball Cap and a SURPRISE CLOTHING item to match your saddle pad choice

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👉 How to enter:
1️⃣ FOLLOW
2️⃣ REPOST this post
3️⃣ TAG your horsey friends in the comments (1 tag = 1 entry, unlimited entries!)
4️⃣COMMENT TELLING US your clothing size, which colour pad you want and if it should be dressage or jump
5️⃣SHARE this post to your story for 10 bonus entries

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🇬🇧 Open in the UK - Closes 31st October 2025. Winner announced on our stories the next day!

⚠️ This giveaway is not sponsored, endorsed, or administered by, or associated with Instagram/Facebook.

10/10/2025

EARLY BIRD pricing ends TODAY ✅

Dr. Darani has a lifelong passion for understanding how diet regulates metabolism and contributes to health in both humans and animals. Priska grew up on a dairy farm in Eastern Ontario before attending the University of Guelph in 2005 to complete a B.Sc. in Animal Biology with a focus on nutrition. While at Guelph, she worked at the Arkell Poultry and Equine Research Station where she assisted with daily care of the horses. In 2012, she received an M.Sc. for OMAFRA-funded research on how altering the amino acid balance of lactating cow rations can affect milk production and composition. In 2016, she completed her Ph.D. degree focusing on nutritional regulation of insulin sensitivity and using mathematical models to predict metabolic responses. Dr. Darani is a certified Professional Animal Scientist (PAS) through the American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists (ARPAS), signifying her commitment to science-driven, ethical practices in animal nutrition, care, and management, as well as her adherence to top professional standards in the field.

Dr. Darani's presentation at 2025 NO Laminitis! Virtual Conference "Effects of vitamin/mineral supplementation with or without jiaogulan on hoof growth, metabolic health, and nutrient status in mature horses" will be on November 1 from 1:15 PM to 2:15 PM. Register for the conference at nolaminitis.org.

EARLY-BIRD PRICING ENDS TODAY!

A special thanks to our Benefactors:

DIAMOND
Custom Equine Nutrition, LLC (Vermont Blend)
Equine Balanced Support
California Trace
Forageplus
Soft Ride Equine Comfort Boots
Hay Chix

PLATINUM:
Auburn Labs (APF)
PHCP
Mad Barn
Black Horse Spirit
Eleanor Kellon Vmd

GOLD:
Triple Crown Feed
Anderson Feed Company (Stabul)
Equi-Analytical
Pure Sole Hoof Products
My Best Horse
New England Equine Balance
Great Plains Forage Balance
Jeannean Mercuri - The Hoof Fairy
HorseTech, Inc.
Gutzbusta Slow Feed Hay Nets USA
Nancy Ochi and Dot
SURE FOOT Equine Balance Pads
Fat Pony Feeders
EasyCare Inc. Protective Hoofwear
Hygain
Wandilla Farm and Equine Services
Nutra Horse
Equine Digit Support System, Inc.
Yank Gulch Equine

10/10/2025

😱 WHERE’S MY MONEY? Oh … eaten and galloping around the field looking fabulous 🐴💸

08/10/2025

It’s taken a year to write and driving along in my car to pick up a secret, but very exciting Forageplus horse product item for development, I thought …. damn I don’t think I talked about silver socks! Update on that as soon as I am back at my desk. Anyway here it is …. the ultimate guide to the bothersome equestrian problem of mud fever in equines.

👇 Strategies for prevention, management and treatment in the link in the comments below 👇

Enjoy - it’s free and my gift to you all.

Next one will be the interesting subject of using chaff and if we think it’s worth it or …….

07/10/2025

💛 It’s never just about riding 💛

It’s the bond, the trust, the quiet moments with your horse that change you forever …….

06/10/2025

Meddling! I know a certain 2 year old horse by the name of Georgie who after this had smacked him on the head would then destroy it so it never worked the same again 😂😂

Made us chuckle a LOT.

Credit to on Instagram

06/06/2025

If Forageplus made some postcards which we give out to people, like we reference in this post below, so they can send them to WHW and all the other organisations who say welfare of the horse comes first but …… actually ….. it’s human interest first ….. would you give them out and encourage people to send them to the organisations?

I was at an engagement party last Friday. I chatted to a lovely older couple who asked me about the Forageplus horses.

The inevitable happened and I whipped out my phone and showed them videos and photos. Fortunately 🤪 they were enthralled by liberty and said that’s so much kinder than what we normally see.

They hated the Grand National and said they didn’t like watching horse riding. They thought it was cruel! They have no other experience with the horse world other than what they see around them on and in the media. They seemed more in tune with welfare issues than WHW!

They understood why I don’t subject my horses to bits anymore. Their comment was ‘how can someone pulling on metal in a mouth not hurt’ 🤷‍♀️ yet WHW slips that little bit of welfare info under the rug.

That rug bump is getting bigger and ultimately the horse world is going to have a nasty trip accident if we don’t wake them up! Would you give out postcards? Would you send them yourself?

What do you think they should say?

Which organisations should they be addressed to?

Do you think an avalanche of this type would do anything?

Any other ideas?

The annual World Horse Welfare survey about public acceptance of horse sport shows that few people think all sport horses live good lives.

05/06/2025

🔑 3 Liberty Training Tips (with food, and no whip for coercion):

When I started …..

Yes - my horse mugged me.
Yes - he ran off.
Yes - I thought I’d made a huge mistake.

What took time to realise was this:

🎯 Food doesn’t fix things. It reveals things.
It showed me the trust holes
It showed me where I lacked clarity.
It gave me the tools to rebuild communication without coercive control.

I will never finish the journey that has brought me the most happiness with my horses and improved my riding and horsemanship beyond what I ever thought possible.

Here’s where I’d start if I was at the beginning:

1. Teach a “start button” behaviour.
👉 Something simple like touch the target or lower your head to begin.
It gives your horse a clear, safe way to say yes to the session. Teach this in or outside your stable first - get it as very solid behaviour.

2. Prevent mugging with clean reinforcement.
🌟 Your hands go to the food after the behaviour is marked, (with a click or a sound that the horse understands is a yes) not before.
Your hands = neutral until it’s time to reward. Then deliver the food to your horse’ mouth with their head in line with their chest. Get this solid at a stand still first before asking for movement.

3. Keep cues soft, short, and consistent.
✨ No pressure. No chasing. No repeating the cue 10 times. Try not to talk about stuff that doesn’t mean anything to the horse.
Say the cue once. Wait. Watch. Let them offer. If they feel confused, then feed food rapidly to them without asking for anything. This will reset both of you again. Dont worry if you have to do this a lot in the beginning, it will lessen once the horse understands how this new system works.

This is a conversation, not a command.
And once your horse learns you’re listening. … everything changes.

💖 Curious to try?

Save this post, drop a ‘YES’ if this is your dream too, and comment with your biggest question, I’ll answer each one as best I can.

05/06/2025

Go Mais Pest you look marvellous flying that bit free flag. How fantastic that the Armed Forces are so enlightened and progressive. MORE of THAT everywhere please!