Sweet Horse Herbs

11/09/2025

😞 This is what we call “over-floating”

Super smooth, no texture left on the teeth, everything rounded off. Believe it or not, horses need texture and a sharp edge to shred and cut their food.
You try and eat dried hay all day with teeth that are as smooth as a marble table. It simply doesn’t work.

This is exactly why I went to school at the Center for Neuromuscular Equine Dentistry…

I only use hand floats, and prioritize texture on the molar surface, proper angles, matching bite planes, and comfort of the TMJ.

EQUINE DENTISTRY….. THE SAD REALITY OF WHAT IS HAPPENING TO HORSES GLOBALLY…FROM EQUINE DENTAL PRACTICES .pictured here

SO WHATS WRONG WITH WHAT WAS DONE.. EVERYTHING…

THATS WHY THIS HORSE ENDED UP DEAD ON THE DISSECTION TABLE….

IT IS TIME FOR BETTER EDUCATION..Especially for the horse owners so you can make sure this does not happen to your horse!

This photo (copyright) is from one of our Equine CranioSacral Workshops ECD One Day Equine Cranial Dissection Workshops - dissected by Maureen Rogers, Founder and was one out of five heads dissected…

NOT ONE HORSE ON THE PLANET IS BORN WITH TEETH LIKE THIS…

THIS IS DAMAGE FROM HUMANS…

AND IS AFFECTING HORSES IN MORE WAYS THAN IS BEING ACKNOWLEDGED OR TALKED ABOUT….

TIME-FOR SOME SERIOUS CHAMGE…THEIR LIVES DEPEND ON IT!

11/04/2025

So Beautiful! This is the ultimate goal! 🤩 Beautiful self carriage, while also relaxed with beautiful fluid movement and balance. This is a young horse!! Just think of what it will look like in a couple more years! Wow!

10/25/2025

My experience with flat soled horses is that there aren't very many "truly" flat soled horses. Not that I don't see very many to begin with, but after making the necessary changes...the concavity of almost every hoof can be improved.

Concavity=sole thickness, in most cases. Concavity must be built or developed over time, not carved out. There is a big difference between exfoliating dead sole material and removing valuable live sole. When you create the proper conditions the sole of the hoof thickens. I picture it raising the coffin bone off of the ground like the rim of a wheel when you pump up a tire. When you get the diet right...get the horse moving (especially on a clean 3-4" deep footing like sand, chat, or pea gravel) ..and keep the outer wall from making contact with the ground you will see the improvements almost immediately (sometimes literally overnight).

The horses coffin bone is naturally concave and the hoof capsule is produced from this bone. The sole is a reflection of the bottom of the bone. The problem is that the growth continues whether it's getting worn or trimmed away. The direction of growth is predominately forward so the hoof capsule will usually slough forward like a sock that's lost its elasticity and ends up bunched around your toes. Careful management can prevent, or correct, this situation so that hoof capsule is aligned with the coffin bone.

The tragedy is when this overgrown situation ensues for a long period of time... this changes the stride of the horse as well as the contact points of the hoof that were specifically designed for proper weight bearing. This breaks a horse down over time causing damage to the inner structures of the hoof as well as all the structures above the hair line. The upside is that the hoof is continually growing and you can use this constant supply of new material to fix the situation. Once you get the hoof wall perfectly aligned with the coffin bone you will see the concavity of the sole mimicking the concavity of the solar surface of the coffin bone. The only exception that I've seen to this is when the solar corium has been crushed for too long on a poorly conformed coffin bone and the bone has become flat or even convex. Even in some of these cases I've seen the horse restored to some level of comfort.

My goal is to educate horse owners to be able to detect hoof capsule deformation before it gets to the point of lameness and to take advantage of the healing abilities intrinsic to the hoof... to develop the best foot possible for the individual horse. “Bad” footed horses can improve and even good footed horses can be better.

(David Landreville, 2014)

10/23/2025

09/03/2025

Still have some spots left in my September calendar. Call or DM me to snag a spot!

07/28/2025

Does your horse's coat bleach or fade in the summer? Find out why your horse's diet might be mineral deficient!