🦄 Sweat itch on horses and ponies is an endless battle 🫣
I feel so sorry for them ❤️
So created a Goats milk & Calendula oil bath bar 🌿💪
Great for skin conditions and itchy skin too, I will keep posted with how it all goes 🤞
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Growing out ponies and horses manes🫣🦄
Well Rosemary oil is doing amazing, the difference already in a few months 💪
🌿Rosemary essential oil with olive oil.
Apply in the evening to avoid direct sunlight.
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Yard kitten making the new pony feel loved ❤️
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My 16 year old cat, touches me with her paw to let me know she's hungry or needs a hug 🥰 as I'm deaf 🥰
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Dog training can become a chore and a battle sometimes 🫣
My secret is 5 minutes a day, within normal exercise.
Refresher I call it 🥰 more playtime than work 💪
CBD has so many benefits for horses & dogs 💪❤️
Not my post, but what a great idea for fencing for itchy ponies, no more broken fences from butt scratching 💪
This is why it's so important to only take what you need when foraging ❤️
🥰Our pollinators 🥰
❤️ My granddaughter doing health checks on very well behaved dogs today with me 🥰
It's so important to keep our dogs and cats teeth, horses too healthy x prevents huge vet bills 🤣
I love how I walk into my ponies track system and can clip him while he is on an adventure, no head collar or treats, I'm just hanging out with them on the track 🤣 but chooses to show me where he needs tidying up 🤣🤣🤣 all over (me thinks) but clippers battery was on a low.
Love these clippers for battery ones, so quick and easy 💪
Training dogs 🫣 can be challenging when more than one 😂 in the class 🤔
But using eye contact, like I showed a few days ago.
You can bring it into other work.
My dogs as you will see follow the toy, then quickly come back to me with eye contact.
My blond lab just wants to work and gets fidgety but still keeps eyes on me.
Bringing back without playing is another task but I will do that in a few days.
It's a new toy so they get excited 😂
Today no treats were involved they just wanted to do the game ❤️
🌿Stitchwort 🌿
🌱Daisy like flowers, growing in woodlands, she's very fragile looking and great for digestion, fantastic for comforting a stitch after exercise, hint the name 🌿
❤️ Herbal choices self selecting session 🌿
As a Herbalist practitioner we provide horses and animals with herbs, oils and tinctures to help with recovery or well being.
With our knowledge we can provide the herbs to benefit at that time❤️
Laminitis pony 😢 in rehabilitation
He is doing amazing and on a very strict care plan, to lose weight and get moving in a comfortable way.
He has been so poorly and very nearly given up 😢😢
But with his huge kind nature he has kept going and loving his herbs, foraging and loving life 🥰
His past was very different to what he has now and when the time is right and the podiatrist is confident he will be going on the track system.
Now it's all about toning and conditioning allowing the herbs to replenish and nourish the damage tissues in his hoofs all under vets supervision too ❤️
When he first came to me for rehabilitation he didn't know anything other than grass and hay he was so shut down a bargey, desperate for food to gorge.
I started our journey with foraging fresh and putting into haynets eventually he opened and now will self select what he needs.
As you can see in the video he inhales and walks onto the next one 🌿
I watch and observe and from his selection it tells me what his body needs today ❤️
Today he selected all herbs for detoxifying and repairing 🥰
It is a lot of work, time and effort but I love it and it's so rewarding 🥰 especially when they go from rude, bargey, biting too calm and appreciation 🥰❤️
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🥰❤️ I feel so privileged to have a Blue tit nest working away in my garden 🥰
My garden isn't quiet, with kids, dogs and cats playing 🫣
They are happy to provide for their chicks while we all carry on 🥰
In the next few days I will be keeping an eye on fallen chicks as of the cat 🫣
🐎🐕 Early mornings 🌞
Already foraging with my 15 year old JR 🥰
He just gets stuck in, with a hedgerow buffet 🌿🥰
My dogs are on natural feed with a little kibble to keep gut moving properly ❤️
But with herbal choices too 🌿
15 years old and still strong, showing age but the vet checks he keeps passing with flying colours 🥰
No medications just a slower life ❤️🤷 have the herbs helped?
Cleavers 🌿 today 🥰
Great for a cleanse and to support lymphatic system 🥰
🐕 Working with dogs and eye contact🐕
🐕Time
🐕Patience
So important with dog connection ❤️
A dog that can connect with eye contact is a confident dog.
Dogs communicate senses to then act upon.
It's smell, body language then eyes.
For a dog to look you in the eye or another animal in the eye in a confident calm manner is huge.
A dog that loses eyesight through trauma or age then uses there smell sense, the smelling sense very rarely deteriorates with age.
With the dog using eye contact in every day life, then put your body language into there sent sense.
Very clever 💪 this is how animals become calm and collected while aging and losing hearing and eye sight.
Tips for the game :
🐕Dog in sitting
🐕Use a favourite thing, a toy, treat or sock 🤣
🐕Stand about 1 to 2 foot distance in front of your dog.
🐕 Move the item around slowly for the dog, move around the top half of your body. So the connection becomes quicker and less tensed.
🐕 As soon as they make eye contact (it happens quick) release the pressure by throwing the ball or giving them your treat.
Keep practicing until you can hold this eye contact.
🐕This will then transfer to your body language, while out walking or within the home.
They can be a field away and know your body language as to what you are doing as a team 💪
The video below shows how quick my dog gets distracted, but how quick the eye contact comes.
In time (never put a time on training) the dog won't even look at his/hers toy or treat they will connect with you so quick for the release.
But will hold till you release 💪
This can be used out walking or at home when guest arrive.
The biggest key to make sure you release the pressure ❤️
Why, can't I turn the feed in a bucket the same each way? 🤣🤣🤣
Forgot to mix the feed so tried to mix it by turning bucket 🫣 I actually can't do it both ways 🤣🤣🤣🤣
