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De-worming Your Horse: Using Chemicals and Herbs for Management and Prevention

Posted by Marijke van de Water on 2018 Oct 1st

Why Do Horses Get Parasites? Of all domestic livestock, horses have the largest numbers of parasites including large strongyles, small strongyles, roundworms, and pinworms. Roundworms only affect we … read more

Cushing’s Disease in Horses (PPID)

Posted by Marijke van de Water on 2018 Sep 22nd

Why is it an Equine Epidemic?Cushing’s disease is now known as PPID or Pituitary Pars Intermedia Dysfunction. Although I don’t much care for this new term because it implies that it is a pituitary d … read more

Zak Overcomes Equine Cushing’s (PPID) on Riva’s Natural Health Program

Posted by Marijke van de Water on 2018 Sep 22nd

PPID is the result of modern horse-keeping and is entirely caused by the lifestyle that humans have created for the domesticated horse. And so it is that the responsibility lies directly on us … read more

Supplementing Your Horse with Glucosamine and MSM…Use with Caution!

Posted by Marijke van de Water on 2018 Sep 21st

What are Nutraceuticals? The word nutraceutical was first coined by Dr. Stephen DeFelice from the Foundation for Innovation in Medicine in 1989. As the name implies, a nutraceutical is a combinat … read more

Get Your Dogs’ Yeast Infections Under Control

Posted by Marijke van de Water on 2018 Jul 30th

Signs, Symptoms and SolutionsOne of the most common health conditions that continue to plague our dogs is yeast infections. An overwhelming number of dogs suffer from itchy, smelly, inflamed and somet … read more