Horsie Herbs

 Hi  So I have made some products for the horse, the rider and the stable. I personally looooove them! So I thought I wanted to share these things with the world.   So here's the products:  Fresh Flyspray:    When it's  spring and all the flies are comming. It can be so bad you can't really stay outside. So either you packed the horse in comepletly in rugs, flymask and I don't know what! Or you buy a flyspray in a tackshop, but those can be quite expensive. So what do you do instead? You make one yourself. But often those you make yourself may not have the best smell.. Okay they stink! Let's be honest! They stink so much! Yeah it probably helps a lot with the flies because it stinks so much, but others may keep away. But.. I have made a flyspray that works AND smells nice! Made on naturel ingredients of course!  It can also come in a roll on, for using around the eyes of the horse, called Fresh Flyspray roll on    *Always remember to allergy test your horse - ju

  Hi everyone  This is the first real post on this Horsieherbs blog. Today we are going to talk about electrolytes.  So why do we give out horses electrolytes? First of all we want to help our horse right?! So everytime we have a hard ride and the horse has been sweating really much, we ad a bit of electrolyttes in their feed. We can give them in their mash, which most horses likes. Some horses don't actually like the taste of electrolyttes if you put it directly in the water for the horse. So in able to hide the taste, you can put it the feed for the horse. The thing is electrolyttes only really works, if they are given every day. Why is this?  Well electrolytes are actually minerals (salts), the horse needs to keep a healthy fluid balance in the horse's body. The electrolytes binds the fluid to the body, which helps the horse to have that balance of fluid in their body, if the horse have been sweating the minerals out, if it has had a hard training. It's best if the horse