AANHCP

Just two months after Audrey arrived to live in our Paddock Paradise track system (and started eating the diet we recommend in the AANHCP guidelines) with her incredibly unhealthy hooves that showed both symptoms of poor nutrition (vertical lines) and characteristics of laminitis (the horizontal lines), new healthy growth was beginning to visibly emerge near the coronary band - entirely clear of any lines. It was an amazing transformation to watch!

Seven or 8 months later, the other unhealthy symptoms that included her soft, chipping hooves are also replaced by strong, healthy hoofwalls with characteristics of good health.

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Teff hay! 💪🏼☀️ Public service announcement! We highly recommend including Teff hay in your horses’ diets along with as many safe grass hays as you can source. If you cannot get bales of Teff where you live, it is great to see that bags of Teff hay pellets are available at Chewy.com. Teff is technically a grain hay - the only grain hay we have found to be safe - horses seem to process it in the same way as they do safe grass hays. Highly recommend including it in their diet.

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You can learn more about the ways to use proven principles and practices from research and observations on the wild and free-roaming horses living naturally in the U.S. Great Basin to keep domestic horses healthier and happier by reading articles on the AANHCP.net website and/or support our work by sharing posts or making a donation to receive the recommended diet guidelines.

Hay poles!!! One of Jaime Jackson’s innovations at our PP track system in California where we were on rented property - with no trees - was the hay pole! So many of you have asked for details on creating these and so Jaime created detailed instructions on making them. The PDF is available as a fundraiser for the non profit (Association for the Advancement of Natural Horse Care Practices). Lots of excellent free info is available there as well!

Make a donation of $22.99 or more to the AANHCP and we will send you a copy. (aanhcp.net) Thank you for the support.

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