Calibre Equine Naturals

13/12/2023

2024 Sponsorship and Ambassador applications are LIVE! *anyone* wanting to be part of the team must submit an application, we have fine tuned and figured out a MUCH easier way for sponsored riders to get their suppies every month, without us having to track you down 😉
The sponsorship and ambassador program are open to anyone with social medial and some horses🐴.
*2023 sponsored riders, please mail or bring back mesh banners at your earliest convenience, before Dec 31st*
As this sponsorship is open CANADA WIDE, applications will be open until Dec 31st at 11:59pm.
We are SUPER excited to get into 2024 with Calibre Equine Naturals, and can’t wait to have you on our team! ***Link for application is in our Instagram bio***

One little tip…please make sure you know and use, or at the very least know a bit about our products. Lots of applicants last year didn’t, and their last answer is what took them out of the running 😉

01/11/2023

This past week we celebrated our birthdays!!!
Mine was the 25th, and Sponsored Rider ‘s is today!
Use code JESSI at the checkout for a mystery % off your entire order (I refuse to disclose my age but it’ll be that percent off, you’re in for a TREAT😅) there are 8 codes to use!
Use code ADRI19 for 19% off your order. There’s 20 codes to use!
Once they’re gone, they’re gone!

(Unrelated, getting a new phone later and will hopefully be able to access my messages later on today 😵‍💫)

01/11/2023

17/10/2023

✨HORMONE HARMONY✨
Now until Friday, you can get Hormone Harmony for 20% off! No code required(can’t be combined with another discount code), discount applied at the checkout ☺️
What’s in it?
Chaste Berry: help regulate hormones(including horses with IR!), improves coat condition, promotes a balanced mood and immune function.
Anise Seed: Hormone balancing, antispasmodic, pain relief, promotes healthy digestion
D**g Quai: Hormone balancing, reduces cramping, improved circulation, coat and hoof improvements, strengthens the uterus, stimulates the liver, which helps with regulating hormones levels, manages stress levels and aids in managing mood swings.
Wild Yam: relieves lower back aches and pains, hormone balancing, regulating digestion.
Chamomile: mild muscle relaxant, anti-inflammatory, calming herb, calms nerves.
Raspberry Leaf: tone and support the uterus, hormone and mood balancing, mild pain relief.

19/07/2023

*Swipe to see p**p pics☺️*
This sweet guy, Twist, had wild “runs” for 10 days and it was only getting worse until we gave him Belly Blend. I was out of my personal stash of Belly Blend(ooops!) but I had some horse probiotic powder in my feed bins so figured I’d give it a try. We did 8 days of the probiotics with exactly 0 positive change(it actually got worse), however after 12 & 24 hours of Belly Blend (I didn’t check his fresh p**ps in the AM when I fed, but did again that afternoon) he has formed, healthy p**ps, with only a little liquid run off at the start. This has improved with every fresh p**p and I have no doubts it’ll be cleared up completely over the next few days. To be completely honest, I wasn’t SURE it would help because it was so severe, and especially not that fast, but I love it when our products prove themselves like this!🎉🥹

21/06/2023

Who is going to the ?!? We are so proud to sponsor the 4D winner of this race! 😍😍

13/06/2023

👀 Looking to feed what the pros are feeding?? Check out the new product on our website for some savings on .salisbury ‘s favourite Calibre blends!

24/04/2023

Some MAJOR Belly Blend love here!! 😍😍 Belly Blend was our first blend we put on the market and it’s still going strong as heck as our best seller, with a huge majority of repeat customers 🤯😍 Who else wants to share their success story with our products??? ⬇️⬇️

09/02/2023

*** THE IMPORTANCE OF AD LIB FORAGE ***

All of my horses have haylage left in their stables when they are fed at 6.30/7am, having been in since 4pm (in the winter).

It is so important that your horse doesn’t stand for hours and hours with nothing to eat. This increases the risk of colic, ulcers, and boredom. It also increases the risk of them choking on their breakfast, as well as potentially very slightly increasing the risk of laminitis, if they subsequently go out when they are very hungry, and pig out on good grass.

I do completely appreciate that lots of horses are very overweight, and that it’s just not possible to give them ab lib sweet haylage/hay for 15 hours a day. I have actually noticed that the more hay you give a horse, the lower the chance of them eating it all. Harry, for example, would clear a haylage net in an hour. He now has 2-3 huge nets overnight, and plenty left the next morning. Again, this may not work for every horse.

If you do have to limit forage, then try soaking hay, and giving more of it. If you can’t give ad lib forage, due to weight/laminitis issues, then you can’t….but if your horse is a good weight, then ideally, he/she should have some hay left in the morning.

NB This is not a debate about whether or not horses should or shouldn’t be stabled, it is to advise that ideally, in an active horse that is not overweight, it is sensible to ensure your horse has some hay/haylage/grass, 24 hours a day.

02/02/2023

This girl is no stranger to us here, but we have shifted her sponsorship from to Calibre this year to better suit the needs of her new horse, Solo. Welcome to Team Calibre, !

“Hi ! My name is Adrianna Gussen, and I’m a barrel racer. I was born and raised in Chilliwack BC, and I’ve been riding since I was about 5.  I started to compete more seriously in barrel racing in 2018. I always strive to have happy and healthy horses while competing. So Calibre Equines supplements became a staple part of my feeding routine. My go to’s are Belly Blend and Fresh Airways. Not only is this helping my horses maintain a happy gut, but it’s also insuring my horse’s airways are feeling their best whether we’re competing or just riding at home.  

My main mount for this year is Pistol Dashin Horton (Solo). My other horse Gunnar, is now also coming back to competing slowly. So I occasionally may run two horses this season.”

02/02/2023

Welcome back for a third year….salisbury!!

“My name is Vanessa Salisbury, I have rode horses most of my life, starting in English/Western Pleasure then moving into Rodeo and Barrel Racing when I was a teenager. I now live in Central Alberta and have the pleasure of riding and training every day. Focusing mostly on Futurity & Derby horses and recently filling my permit in the CPRA. Some of my main mounts include “Mito Judge Jaxon” and “Judge Austin”. I feel very fortunate to be apart of the Calibre Equine team for another year as I find the products to be a staple in keeping my horses healthy and happy throughout the season.”

19/01/2023

Next up, welcome Lucy Miller-Hogg & her lovely group of horses!

“My name is Lucy Miller-Hogg,
I'm an eighteen year old three-day event rider originally from the Sunshine Coast in BC, where our families 5 acre hobby farm is. I'm currently living in Chase BC working for Ali and Nick Holmes-Smith as a rider/groom. My overall goal is to someday make it to the top level of the sport, but for now I'm enjoying the process along the way.
I've ridden up to the preliminary level in eventing on a Clydesdale cross that I trained up from a three year old. She taught me a lot about the importance of a good fitness plan and really showed me how amazing horses can be if you believe in them.

I have two horses currently, my main one “Moose,” is a 17.1-hand thoroughbred that retired off the track as a 4-year-old in 2020. 2022 was his first season out and he blew me away, we competed at local events here in BC and a few events in the USA ending the season novice with qualifiers to move up to training level in eventing. I have some big goals for Moose this coming season, but it's most important to me that he's confident and happy, so we’ll just see what happens!

My other horse is “Diva,” she's a 6-year-old
16.1 hand Canadian warmblood that I bought completely unhandled at the beginning of 2022 from a field in Saskatchewan. It's been a long year getting her used to being handled and getting her to like people, but she's been such a rewarding mare to work with (I've also had a lot of help along the way with various trainers). She is now going walk/trot/canter and we're getting excited about her future as an event horse!

I like to keep Calibre Equine naturals in my feed program because it's a clean, all natural product with no fillers that my horses love to eat. it's also a local BC small business, which is great to support. I started Moose on Calibre’s Fresh Airways blend after I noticed that the dust from all the shows/trailering was having an effect on him and I've noticed a huge difference in his breathing.

I'm super excited and grateful to be apart of the Calibre Equine Naturals team for 2023!”

19/01/2023

We are SO excited to announce our 2023 Sponsored Rider line up!
This girl needs no introduction, but we are so proud to welcome Justine Elliott to our team. We are thrilled you decided to try Blondy on our products and even more thrilled that you love them!
“My name is Justine Elliott, I’m 20 years old and live in Lacombe, Alberta. I grew up around horses my entire life being a horse trainer's daughter. I’ve been barrel racing for quite a few years but only started going pro in 2018. In my High School Rodeo days, I showed in the cutting and cowhorse along with pole bending and goat tying. Blondy has been my main mount through it all, including my early years of High School Rodeo being my barrel and pole horse. She’s carried me to four consecutive Canadian Finals Rodeos, two Calgary Stampedes and a Canadian Championship in 2021. Blondy has also been the CPRA’s Horse With the Most Heart for two years and brought us to being season leaders in the CPRA in 2019 and 2021. I’m super excited to be a part of the Calibre Equine team in 2023 and can’t wait to see its benefits in my horses!”

02/12/2022

Sometimes all you need is a good, gentle, detox & support boost.

These photos were 8 days apart on KLean Support- Kidney & Liver excess toxin cleanse! 🤩🤩

30/11/2022

Calibre Equine Naturals shared a post on Instagram: "From 9:30am to 9:30pm today only, let’s put these snow day kids to work packing orders(ok ok, after they’ve had all their fun and need to warm up in the office 😅) This includes .brand apparel! No code necessary! Enjoy!". Follow their...

18/11/2022

Are you near Claresholm, AB and want to save on shipping?!
Starting NOW, there’s going to be an option on the website to select “Local Pick Up” with
For November, you’ll have till November 21st to get your orders in, they’ll be sent off later that week (if something isn’t available please check in with me).
After that, any orders before the 10th of every month (when you select local pick up at Skyler Brown) will be sent to Skyler for you to pick up from her with *no shipping charge!*
The shipment will happen between the 10th-15th of every month, depending on stock.
Feel free to DM me with any questions.

18/10/2022

Entries are now open for the first race of the 2022 Winter Series at Innes Arena!

$2,050 added for the day plus prizes!

$1,100 added in the Open
$475 added in the Junior
$325 added in the Peewee
$50 added in the Senior
$50 added in the Futurity Sidepot
$50 added in the Derby Sidepot

Enter here:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/LindseyInnes1/Race1WinterSeriesInnesArena

This is a Halloween theme race, come dressed up for your chance to win prizes!

Bob Palmer's Photography will be onsite as the official action photographer. You can purchase your photos ahead of time through the entry form for just $20 per horse. In order to receive photos, you must select this option and pay ahead of time.

Sky High Images will be onsite as the official race videographer. You can purchase your drone videos ahead of time through the entry form as well for just $10 per run/horse. In order to receive video(s), you must select this option and pay ahead of time.

Please help me give a big thank you to all of our amazing sponsors for their support and making the incredible payouts and prizes possible!

Island Owl Mazda
Chinook Scaffold Systems
Pureform Equine Health Supplements
Topline Equine Inc.
Samson Fire Protection Jamie Lee Surry
Leghorn Ranch
Catherine Mosher Parksville Qualicum Real Estate
Carlos O' Bryan's Nanaimo
Island Ready Mix
G Spot Welding Geff Haslam
Vancouver Island Steel Buildings Ltd.
Haslam Creek Heavy Haul Penelope Haslam
Chan Nowosad Boates
Heikes Homes
Vergenoeg Ranch - Equestrian Centre
Sky High Images
Jessica Heikes Performance Horses
Power of Fire Ranch Amber Dawes
The Lazy B Company
Arrowsmith Industrial
Huc’s West Coast Fitting Coty Huculak
Calibre Equine Naturals
Coastal Cowgirls
Wink Eyelash Extensions

10/10/2022

Sometimes it's not ulcers.

Sometimes it's not kissing spine.

Sometimes it's not EPM.

Sometimes it's not the bit.

Sometimes it's not the saddle.

Sometimes it's not the trainer.

Sometimes it's the fact you're a crazy human who continues to anthropomorphise these behaviours and insist that it couldn’t possibly be a pain related issue or anything related to you.

Sometimes it’s the fact that your horse was designed for the purpose of moving 20+ kilometres per day with their head down grazing and is now confined to a box stall and fed up on high energy grain whilst going without hay for hours each day, creating a sore tummy and a greater likelihood of having ulcers as a domestic horse than not in addition to being chronically understimulated and largely unable to exercise unless they have a human on their back playing puppeteer.

Sometimes it's the fact that you dress your horse in a variety of equipment with the purpose of restricting the movement of their mouth (flash) or creating more leverage for you to be able to ride and direct them easier by using a number of different harsher bits or gadgets like draw reins. This effectively removes any ability for quiet communication, so when your horse can’t take it anymore, they must get louder.

Sometimes it’s the fact that way too many unqualified trainers play saddle fitter and tell students their tack fits when it actually does not.

Sometimes it's the fact that your horse absolutely adores running away from you because it is one of the few things that brings them relief from the otherwise high pressure, high stress lifestyle that can be rides, especially when their communication of stress and/or discomfort is being labelled as personality and otherwise viewed through an anthropomorphic lens.

Sometimes it's the fact that you think your horse will wait for you while you mount or dismount but your horse is chronically stressed and cannot fathom the idea of standing still for a couple of seconds while they’re in fight or flight mode so they instead use the opportunity for relief by moving.

Sometimes it's the fact that the majority of the stress and avoidance behaviours we see ARE correlated with mental and/or physical discomfort and have shown consistent correlation in extensive equine behaviours studies.

Sometimes it’s the fact that we have a 70-90% rate of stomach ulceration in domesticated horses so your horse is more likely to have them than not.

Sometimes, the issue is that we as humans are really great at denying anything that would push us to self reflect and see the gravity of what is an industry wide issue of ignoring the horse and then when they finally get loud so we have to notice, blaming their loud behaviours once again on them.

Horses do not lie, their behaviour is honest. Humans, on the other hand, DO lie. Especially to themselves. To protect from having to sit information that is hard to hear.

It’s taking the easy way out to anthropomorphise your horse. But, I can promise you that if you actually put the time, money and belief into diagnostic work, you will have a very good chance of finding out what physical issue is causing their behaviour. Many who claim it can’t be pain related just don’t actually put the work in to find out because the real truth is often expensive and could be painful. For years, I avoided the truth for the same reason, all without knowing that was why.

If you learn to look for the reason behind their unwanted behaviour instead of just looking at the behaviour at face value, you also may find what situations, equipment and other factors contribute to it.

If you consider ruling out pain first and honestly looking at your horse’s living situation from a welfare standpoint, you may just realize how often pain and inadequate management cause behavioural issues, because these factors are behind the vast majority of issues we run into with horses.

After all, I thought it was “never the horse’s fault” or are we just saying that to sound good?

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20/09/2022

In case you missed it, we have 3 size options now!
Regular sizes of supplements(blue bag) as well as double and triple sizes(green bag)!
They’re all live on the website

18/09/2022

Chaste Tree Berries are well known in aiding mares (and women) with regulating hormones. This magical little berry can also help with reducing stress hormones, improving liver function, reducing inflammation, aiding in horses with cushings disease, and even has a calming effect on stallions and geldings.
A little downside to Chaste Tree Berries: they’re little, hard, bitter, easy to fall to the bottom of a bag and the feed bucket, and don’t mix well with feed & other supplements.
We buy our dried berries whole, and grind them ourselves, to ensure the product is excellent, and to make sure those picky horses don’t push the little berries away when they’re eating.
Chaste Tree Berries are a key ingredient in our Twisted Sister supplement, which has been a game changer for so many mare owners! When mixed together with the rest of the ingredients in Twisted Sister, this is a tasty, palatable addition to every mares feed program 🤩

05/09/2022

Guess where this kid and the other 3 are going tomorrow?! BACK TO SCHOOL!
I actually really enjoy them being around, but I’m looking forward to routine and undisturbed work time again.

For the next week, enjoy 15% off everything! No code necessary(can’t be combined with other codes).