Healing Garden for Horses: Herbs After Wildfire Evacuation Stress

Last week wildfires laid seige to over 6,000 acres northeast of Oklahoma City, including our area. When the fires jumped a thoroughfare near us, we led our 5 horses away from the encroaching fires, through traffic and emergency vehicles. Fortunately the fires missed us.
When we led the horses home and put them in the pasture, the whole herd trotted straight to the herb garden, which they had ignored for some time. Four of them took generous bites of most of the herbs, but my weanling foal, Strider, ate most of the tarragon. He has come back to it daily, until it is almost gone. I'm sure the horses knew herbs are stress relievers. When I get some time I plan to research this amazing phenomenon.

Kryssie Francis

Kryssie Francis, UK/Luxor, Egypt clinician on healing horses naturally, was kind enough to advise me in my pursuit:

"In my own experience horses love to graze on plants such as Peppermint (menthe piperata), Spearmint (menthe spicata), Chamomile (anthemis noblis), Thymes of most varities, Lemon Balm (melissa officinalis), Violets (violet odorata), Wild Roses, Marjoram (origanum vulgare), Lavenders (officinalis and others).

Gifting free access facilitates their free grazing as and when they most need it; tubs/half barrels or wall hanging mangers may all be planted up to give access, or if grazing is suitable you can just plant patches. Plants they eat lots of you would want to grow more of. People do complain, well I planted some but they ate all of it ........... this is a case of them needing more :)

The more diverse the forage you can provide for them to eat while it is growing and therefore still alive, vibrant with nutrients and detectable by their smell signature, the more healthy they can keep themselves.

For example horses prone to colic adore to eat roses; the oil from the flower has been found to have anti bacterial, anaesthetic and relaxing qualities all of which may help their digestive tract clean and relaxed & so in their own way they are managing their own weaknesses which they instinctively nourish BEFORE we are able to see/detect any sign of major physical incident."

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