09/12/2025
Awww Joey Boy ❤️🐴🥰🫶❤️ showing us how The Herd roll.
Did you know horses are natural foragers with remarkably diverse palates?
They are not designed to live on just hay, grass, or processed pellets.
In the wild, they graze and browse their way through an extraordinary range of plants and minerals, selecting exactly what their bodies need.
Horses will seek out:
• multiple grass species
• wild herbs and shrubs
• mosses and lichens
• tree bark and young branches
• leaves and tender shoots
• flowers and seed heads
• berries and fruits
• plant roots and tubers
• clay, mineral-rich soil, and natural salts
• native weeds and woody plants
• seasonal forage like seed pods and bush leaves
Their bodies are built for small, slow, near-constant intake.
A healthy horse is meant to access food for around 18 hours a day.
This steady trickle of fibre protects their gut, stabilises their nervous system, supports natural hormone balance, and allows them to move, graze, explore, and self-select nutrients just as their instincts guide them.
Restricting forage disrupts digestion, increases stress, and undermines their overall wellbeing.
Honouring their foraging nature, with variety, freedom, and abundance, is one of the most fundamental ways we can support their health, contentment, and natural way of being.
