CALM HEALTHY HORSES UK LTD

Calm Healthy Horses UK explains how to obtain optimal health and well being for grass affected horses and how best to meet their fundamental needs. Our ethos is to help you learn more about how your horses pasture can affect his health, movement and behaviour and what we as horse owners can do to improve the situation. Always keep in mind the difference between a horse’s natural environment: avast semi desert biome and conditions in the UK that are usually warm, wet, organic and unless you are very lucky, confined by paddocks. Our aim is to provide a nutritionally well-balanced diet in the form of high fibre, low sugar feeds, with species-appropriate potassium and nitrate levels. The challenge is that sugars, potassium and nitrate levels in UK pastures often become excessive for the horse. Due to our weather, grass growth takes place during most of the year and can be particularly prolific in spring and late autumn. Grazing on relatively small areas means that many horses are feeding from a ‘green carpet’ most of the time, a situation that conflicts with their natural metabolic needs. Fibre is the biggest and most critical element of the horse’s daily nutrition. Grass affected problems are management issues not horse issues.