We Ride Sport and Trail Magazine March 2017 | Page 21

Chemical De-Wormers

If you feel you still need to use chemical de-wormers, provide probiotic one week before worming and for 2 weeks after.

Understand what type of wormer you are using and why. Take no chances with the instrustions, accurately weigh your horse using a weigh tape.

Worm each horse as an individual.

Rachel Kelly is a qualified master medical herbalist, equine herbalist and vitalist nutritionist. Rachel places huge emphasis on the importance of a natural diet and uses "food as medicine" with sprouted seeds being one of the important building blocks in this process. Rachel's horses are feed a raw sprouted seed diet which is rich in antioxidants and live enzymes. Rachel lives in Kildare, Ireland with her family and two horses.

rich in antioxidants and live enzymes. Rachel lives in Kildare, Ireland with her family and two horses.

Instructions

Weigh out pumpkin seeds 400g. (pumpkin seeds are super for tape worm)

Soak for 12 hours in cold water & then strain.

Weigh out the garlic 600g and break up into small cloves, you do not have to over peel, you can just take off some of the skin.

Place half the oil into the blender first, and then add the garlic & blend untill the garlic & oil has formed a paste (10-15 seconds).empty this out into a bucket or large container.

Next add the rest of the oil into the blender and then add the pumkin seeds, and blend up untill a paste is formed, add this to the garlic and oil mix in the bucket.

Blend up pumpkin seeds, add to garlic oil mix in bucket.

Weigh out dried wormwood and other dried herbs.

Add the wormwood and other dreid herbs into the garlic oil & pumpkin oil mix and combine all of it together,if its to wet add some more wormwood, if its to dry add more oil.

Roll the mixture into balls that roughly weigh 50g each, these can be feed straight to the horse or mixed into their feed.

One ball should be feed for 5- 6 days for each horse, this will depend on your fecal count results. For horses with high counts feed one ball for up to 10 days.

Do not use on pregant mares. Contact your Vet before using herbs on your horse.

The Equine Herbalist