Busselton Stockfeeds and Pet Supplies

12/07/2025

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Is your cat using your couch as a scratching post? 😾🛋️
We get it. Scratching is normal for cats but your furniture doesn’t have to suffer for it.

In our latest blog, we break down simple, stress-free ways to get your cat to use their scratching post (and actually love it). From choosing the right type of post to where you place it, details matter.

📖 Read the full article here: https://eacanimalcare.com/blogs/news/how-to-get-cat-to-use-scratching-post

10/07/2025

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08/07/2025

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07/07/2025

👀 10% off WildKind pet treats in store now!

05/07/2025

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Calcium and Bone Mineral Supplement for Horses Grazing Oxalate-containing Pastures 🦴

Cal-XTRA is formulated as a critical supplement for horses grazing in regions with oxalate-containing grasses, commonly in Queensland, The Northern Territory and parts of New South Wales and Victoria.

Tropical and sub-tropical grass, particularly setaria, para, buffel, teff, pangola, kikuya, couch grass and green panic, contain oxalates which bind up and reduce the absorption of calcium, resulting in calcium deficiency which can lead to bone weakness.

Cal-XTRA is a concentrated source of bone minerals, especially calcium, to ensure extra supply and help prevent bone demineralisation that would otherwise lead to lameness, osteoporosis and Big Head.

Horses on high grain diets also benefit from the calcium and other nutrients supplied by Cal-XTRA to help bone strength and soundness during moderate to intense training.

04/07/2025

20% off Science Selective small animal food in store now!! 🐰 🐹

04/07/2025

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03/07/2025

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02/07/2025

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01/07/2025

❗ HEALTH ALERT: Sand Colic ❗
There have been quite a few cases of sand colic popping up recently, and our conditions this season aren't helping. Find out more about sand colic, diagnosis and some day-to-day management strategies to help prevent it ⬇

🐎 What is Sand Colic? It is colic or abdominal pain caused by the ingestion of and presence of sand in a horse's gut. While it can be normal for horses to have a bit of sand present in their gut, large amounts can cause trouble, and some horses may be more prone to sand colic. The early signs can include diarrhoea and abdominal pain (biting at stomach, pawing or rolling).

🐎 Horses can ingest sand when grazing or picking up feed off the ground. At the moment many paddocks have short grass or are bare leading to more sand exposure. Where there has been some rain and fresh green pick growing, it can encourage horses to eat the grass down closer to the ground than normal which can mean they pick up more sand.

⚠️If you are worried about your horse and their sand colic risk, talk to your local vet. Abdominal x-rays are the preferred method for sand burden diagnosis and are a non-invasive check that your vet can perform easily.

For day-today prevention:
✅ Avoid overgrazing pastures, especially short pastures under 6-8cm high. This is the 'growth zone' where all the sweet bits are, so horses and ponies get close to the ground and are more likely to pick up sand and debris.

✅ Keep water filled, clean and fresh to avoid dehydration.

✅ Feed quality hay to supplement shorter pastures. They need 1.5-2% of their body weight in fibre daily. Plenty of quality hay helps keep their guts moving, and the fibres can help to pick up and move little particles of sand and grit too.

✅ Place rubber mats under feed buckets, so that if they do drop feed, they don't pick it up directly off the ground.

✅ Try to avoid feeding hay directly off the ground to minimise sand intake.

✅ PSYLLIUM HUSKS: feeding psyllium husks regularly can help to reduce sand accumulation. Talk to your vet for the correct dosage and frequency for your horse. NOTE: do not feed psyllium husks to a horse that is already colicky, even if only showing early signs as they can make it worse!

💡TIP: Mix psyllium husks with oil rather than water to stop them going 'gluggy' and unpalatable.

01/07/2025

Specialising in equine and livestock veterinary services, whether your animals are pets, hobby stock, show animals or commercial stud and farm herds.

01/07/2025

Stock has arrived and we are chock full! 🌾