Holistic Horseworks Talks with April Love
Introducing the Holistic Horseworks Talks podcast! Hosted by April Love, the founder of Holistic Horseworks, this podcast offers valuable insight and solutions to those "little issues" that are often encountered with equine companions.
With her wealth of knowledge and decades of experience in working with them, April offers a unique perspective on horse health and well-being. Through this podcast, she answers listener questions and shares real-life stories that resonate with horse owners everywhere.
In a world where horses face so many challenges in their daily lives, and the "good ol' ways" just aren't cutting it anymore, this podcast brings fresh content to listeners, providing them with innovative approaches and techniques to address the challenges of today's modern horses.
This podcast explores a variety of topics, including horse bodywork, natural remedies, emotional wellness, and the importance of understanding the horse as a whole, sentient being. April Love's dedication to promoting not only horse health but also a harmonious bond between horse and rider shines through as she offers practical advice and insightful guidance. Her authentic and compassionate approach, combined with her expertise in holistic horse care, provides a platform for horse owners to explore new horizons and find effective solutions to enhance their horse's overall well-being.
Whether you're dealing with mysterious lameness, behavioral and training issues, issues, saddle fit, hoof balance, or high vet bills, the Holistic Horseworks Talks podcast is an invaluable resource for horse owners everywhere.
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Holistic Horseworks Talks with April Love
Horse Preparedness For Natural Disasters
In this episode, April discusses the importance of horse owners preparing for natural disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, and tornadoes. The key points include:
Learn how to put identification on your horse so if they get loose, the person who finds them can contact you.
Use duct tape and a black Sharpie pen to write your phone number on the horse's hooves. Additionally, consider using dog tags on the horse's halter or blanket.
Always keep essential supplies on hand, such as Dynamite Liquid Trace minerals for wound care, tea tree oil, and Epsom salts. Prepare a medicine chest with items recommended in horse care books for emergencies like colic, wounds, and smoke inhalation.
It's better to be prepared and not need it than to scramble during an emergency.
Resources
Dynamite Trace Minerals: https://tinyurl.com/2p8w6nzu
Tea Tree Oil: https://tinyurl.com/yz4jukyb
Horse 102 Ebook: https://horseacademy102.com/
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Hi, this is Lillian. I'm here with April love.
00:00:33
Recently we've had a lot of natural disasters. You had the wildfires out there in Hawaii. Out East here, there's hurricane after hurricane, it seems. And down South, you've got tornadoes. What can horse owners do to prepare themselves for such situations?
00:00:50
So, I had a friend and she's now an instructor in Redding, CA, that used to run all of that, and she would tell everybody, to have duct tape in a black Sharpie pen handy so that you can put it on the horses’ hooves and write your phone number.
00:01:06
You should have some way to embroider or put your phone number. A dog tag works really great on the horse’s halter with the horse’s name, your name, and the phone number. That's one of the best things you can do. Little dog tags with the metal clip on the horse’s halter. So. if you have to turn your horse out or a tree
00:01:26
blows the fence down and they run loose and if someone finds your horse with the halter on they can call you.
00:01:34
Another thing is, you know, is there anything on the horse blanket, a lot of horses are blanketed in the wintertime. You know, they don't have a halter on, but if a storm comes through, is there anything to identify them? You know, your name, your phone number on that blanket again, you might be able to do that with a dog tag.
00:01:54
a dog collar or something. So, if you think you're going to be in those kinds of situations, the best thing is to get your name and number on it. A landline, an e-mail address, if you have to. Or cell phones. In Hawaii, all the cell phone towers went down.
00:02:11
So, we had large areas that didn't have cell phone service. So, a lot of dogs ended up at like the pound and SPCA that didn't have, you know, people's info on it or another way to contact him when they didn't have a cell phone. So just make sure there's always a way to contact you, you should.
00:02:30
I always have Dynamite Liquid Trace minerals on hand. It's great for wounds if you know a tree branch falls on a horse or something stabs a horse, it's really good.
00:02:40
to just clean that out with tea tree oil and trace minerals and water and hot, pack the wound and inject the trace minerals straight into the wound to get it to heal faster, especially when you're out in storms and can't be out there doctoring the horse every day. We had issues with smoke inhalation in
00:03:00
horses’ lungs. So we always recommend a lung protocol program and a detox.
00:03:06
And you can look that up in my horse 101 or horse 102 book. They're on Amazon. The Horse 102 is Holistic Alternatives. What you should be having in your medicine chest and everything you should do in an emergency for your horse. If it's colicking. If it has a wound. And if you look at the ingredients that I recommend, it's going to be half of what you're spending on.
00:03:30
Anything you're getting at the tack and feed store, so if you know bad weather's coming in, if you know something's coming up, make sure you have identification on your animal so people can get in contact with you.
00:03:43
And have things ready in the barn for emergencies. Epsom salt, for colic. All that kind of stuff. Just be prepared. It's better to not need it than to be scrambling and looking for it in an emergency. You can find other helpful tidbits in my horse 101 book, horseacademy101.com.
00:04:04
And my website is holistichorseworks.com.