We all know of horses who are mentally stressed by travel – but even horses who travel calmly are likely to be concealing mental and physical stress. Travelling can often be unpredictable and uncontrollable for horses. Here's how to minimise the impact of travel on your horse and their health.
Learn about the gut-brain axis and how changes to a horse's microbiome can affect behaviour. Discover the many ways stress can affect horses in the course of daily life, how to limit the stresses your horse experiences, and how to protect its microbiome from change. You will be improving your horse’s health and reducing the likelihood of uncharacteristic and unsafe behaviour.
Research has shown that even the stress caused by events we consider ‘normal’ in a modern horse’s life, like transport, have the ability to alter a horse’s hindgut microbiome, which can result in large disturbances to their overall health. Find out what you can do to help your horse deal with stress.
We are so proud hearing all the stories of how Stress Paste supports horses through high pressure, anxious, stressful experiences! We also love hearing how you use Stress Paste to support your horses, and we wanted to share some tips and stories about anxious horses becoming calmer, travelling well, and feeling better.
Don’t just mask the effects of stress. Give your horse the tools to deal with it! Even with the best of care, our modern-day horses experience stre...
Groundbreaking research out of the US shows that not only does physical stress (such as infection, inflammation, or trauma) activate the immune system but that psychological stress has the exact same impact.
The Horse's Gut
That 30m tract of gut does so much more than digest food. It is responsible for your horse’s health and well-being!
It keeps bad things out and good things in by having an intact gut wall protected by a mucosal lining, and when this defence mechanism isn’t working toxins, pathogens and harmful substances can enter through the gut wall and create havoc.
This can lead to life threatening illnesses, poor performance, pain, behaviour change, weight-loss and whole gut inflammation (ouch).
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