Horse Matters

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About Horse Matters
Were not a traditional shop or a mail order service. Just a couple of of people who love horses and started to realise that a lot of very common problems affecting horses are diet related.
Through several equine nutrition courses and sharing ideas with like minded people Sue Dawson learned how the diet affects the horses digestive health and overall well being. Georgie Harrison found a different path leading, to the same place through her barefoot trimming experiences, AANHCP Jamie Jackson.
Through Horse Matters we aim to help horse other owners find the critical ingredients needed for a well balanced healthy diet. We share information and advice from leading experts in this field to help you decide why and what to feed.
For local people we can supply the basics: an additive free chop, a good quality mineral and vitamin supplement, micronised linseed, copra meal, brewers yeast and turmeric. We buy in bulk so that we can sell at a better price than you will find elsewhere.
If your not local we can tell you where to get what you need direct and what to look for if your considering alternatives.
Why a balanced diet counts
Fundamentally horses have not evolved to eat many of the feedstuffs that have become normal in recent years. This is because they originate from semi – desert environments and would forage over many miles each day to find sufficient food from a wide range of sources. Most importantly these sources would provide a very different mineral, vitamin and protein balance to those provided by our uk domesticated environments.
Your horse is not a wild horse but his bodily functions are still designed to function at their best when his diet reflects as closely as possible the mineral, vitamin, protein and energy profile of his origins. This is why it is important to avoid high sugar grasses and adding sweet feeds, chemically processed ingredients, lucerne (alfalfa) and certain oils ( ) to his bucket.
what we are advocating is not new and its certainly not our idea. We are just part of a growing community of horse lovers who are concerned about some mainstream feeding practices that have now become the norm over the past twenty years, along with increasing incidence of laminitis, equine metabolic syndromes, navicular, headshaking, sweet itch, chronic mud fever but to name a few.
We are trying to spread the word because before these conditions become catastrophic its important to realise that many horses are suffering due to unnoticed sub clinical symptoms. These symptoms lead to posture issues, difficult saddle fitting, training problems and in some cases physical and mental breakdown of the horse. Like us, before we became truly aware of how diet can undermine your horse, we see many owners struggling and feeling limited by difficult attitudes, stressy behaviour, perceived weak confirmation and training potential.

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