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Stringhalt is absolutely curable, although you will get some vets saying “no it’s not” – so do not worry (except to use that worry to change what needs to be changed!) 

 

Bobby himself (the star of the book Bobby’s Diaries) had very, very bad stringhalt and completely recovered. I’ve worked with numerous other cases too.

 

What your vet is correct in though, is in calling it an intoxication/poisoning/toxicity of the grasses that he’s on.

 

This is such a big picture environmental issue.  We tend to keep horses on the same ground year after year (I did too!) and then wonder  why all these damn weeds come up.  Even the grass itself becomes toxic under certain circumstances.  Well the weeds come up as the earth’s last ditch effort to heal itself, because bare dirt is exactly what she (the earth) doesn’t want.  Thus the big picture solution is to look into big picture ways to accelerate the earth’s desires (which are rarely accelerated by weed spraying and certainly not accelerated by wrecking the earth with the way that we keep our horses)

 

I am particularly talking about this big picture approach to fixing stringhalt forever, because I have recently done a very exciting farm regeneration course with an Australian agricultural scientist called Graeme Hand.  I wrote an article about it on my website on the blog  earlier in  October 2009.

I’ve started the big changes on our property and can already see some changes happening – it doesn’t take very long and I am excited about the long term benefits.

 

However, you may not be in a position to fix it by these big picture preventative measures, so getting the right minerals into your horse is the next best option.  All the minerals and trace elements that are in seaweed, dolomite for calcium and magnesium where they are deficient in the soil, copper pipe in water for copper deficiencies or products like livermole, sulphur where that is deficient – yellow sulphur powder, garlic has sulphur in it, apple cider vinegar, vitamin C in forms such as sodium ascorbate or fresh garlic.

 

I haven’t put definite products or dosages because it depends on what your land and feed is deficient in.

 

A key ingredient is magnesium, because stringhalt in every form is a magesium deficiency caused by something. 

You can supplement magnesium in the form of magnesium orotate (comes in tablet form), which I know from first hand experience works, or I have heard of high quality (not the contaminated crap from China) forms of magnesium oxide working (it comes in powder form and is cheaper).  I do not have any first hand experience of magnesium oxide working yet, I am about to try it soon.  There are many other forms of magnesium out there that DO NOT work with horses and lots of them are sold in horse feed supplements!

 

The horse’s ability to absorb the magnesium and use it properly in their bones, muscles and nervous system, depends on their other minerals being adequate though.  So you need to do a bit of research amongst farmers in your area, about mineral deficiencies in your area.  The best ones to ask are organic farmers, they tend to concern themselves about that sort of thing more (not that other kinds of farmers don’t ever!)

 

I can do some testing around that if you prefer to do it with a healing session. (for more information about what I do, see my profile on The Author on my website, click here)

Vets will often recommend getting the horse off the paddock, locking them up and feeding them hay until the danger time is over.  This is not my first choice of action because it doesn’t solve the problem in the long term.

 

And then, there is the nervous system issue. Because that is what stringhalt is, damage to the nervous system.  Just like the name suggests, nervousness and nervous system go together.  Nervousness is just another name for fear and horses carry much more fear than we ever believed. - but we CAN help them get rid of that.

 

It seriously helps a horse to recover from the stringhalt damage to the nervous system, if we help them live their life without fear, in every aspect that we can control.

 

You may possibly think that me telling you to get the book and CD set Zen Connection with Horses, is a self serving act.  It may well be, but it is the BEST way that I know, to help your horse get rid of their fear – old fears, new fears and everything in between.   And if it doesn’t, I’ll give you your money back.  I give every one of my books a “love this book or get your money back” personal guarantee.

 

Click here to go look at Zen Connection with Horses.   Or have a look around the website at People’s Stories scroll up, it’s here on the right hand side of the page.