Herbal Recipe Book

The recipes in this book are the herbal blends veterinarian Dr Christine King developed and uses in her practice.  Most are designed for horses and other grazing animals, but some can also be used in dogs and cats.

Some of the blends were formulated primarily for nutritional purposes, others primarily medicinal, but all are safe, palatable, easy to use, and road-tested.  Now with this recipe book you can make them for your own animals.

Excerpt from Chapter 1, Why Feed Herbs?

The horse's natural diet consists of many different grasses, legumes, and various other meadow and woodland plants.  Naturalists estimate that wild or feral horses may browse from at least 50* different types of plants, depending on what's available in that location at that time.

* This figure grossly underestimates what free-living horses have been observed to eat.  [source]

The variety comes not just from the range of plant species available, but also from the variations in plant types, parts (roots, stems, bark, leaves, flowers, fruit, seeds), and constituents with the different seasons.

One might argue that wild or feral horses eat this way because they must, simply to survive.  There certainly is a "make do" element to the way wild or feral horses live in most parts of the world.  But having practiced both conventionally and holistically during my veterinary career, I can attest to the health benefits gained by attempting to replicate that variety in the way we feed domesticated horses.