Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Layla Harris is an IICT Certified Instructor for Holistic Horseworks. 

in this episode, she shares how she found April Love's Holistic Horseworks program and it has helped her clients' horses.

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

April talks with a horse owner who was at her wit's end trying to find out why her horse was on-and-off lame. After spending thousands doing diagnostic work, she was advised to put the mare on multiple medications, use special shoes, etc. The owner considered euthanasia.
Instead, the owner found April's Holistic Horse Works program. After taking the home study course and applying the first rib adjustment, the mare was sound and happy. 

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Donna initially did some online searching to find out how to help her horses. 

She found April's Holistic Horse Works program and then signed up for a clinic. Then COVID hit and the clinic was canceled. So Donna did the home study course.

When Donna herself, got sick she found that April also had things to help humans too. Donna eventually purchase a Healy Resonance device and found it helped, not only her but her animals, as well.

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

A  listener is dealing with some young horses that are nipping and even head-butting the other horses. And he wants to know why that's happening and what can you do about it.

I worked on a horse that you could see the muscle development on his face was out of balance. One side mandible cheek muscle was bigger than the other and his forehead was developing bigger on one side as well. He just didn't want you to touch his face. 

He was only about 14 months old. , 

I told the owners to have the vet check his teeth. And the next time I was there, they said oh the vet refused saying that he's too young. They don't start looking at teeth until age two or three. 

Well, they finally got someone to look, and the teeth were just horrendous and he had huge sharp hooks in waves and he was chewing his own cheek when he was trying to eat and he was just head-butting all the other horses just asking for help. 

But the problem is with all these knotted rope halters that have no give you put that on a two or three month old foal, even then just rearing up and fighting with the handler because they feel trapped when those bones are so soft as some much damage. So I really ask people to not handle young horses without some kind of give or stretch in a rope. 

With these knotted-rope halters, doing so much damage to the horse's head, because there's no give, we need to start looking at the teeth sooner on before they start, you know, nipping biting chewing on things, because that's usually just saying my mouth is bothering me and I need something done are fixed in here or something, but they don't know how to ask for it. 

You can look at that on my Horse 101 free e-book, at HorseAcademy101.com. I get into that a little bit. And Holistic Alternatives Horse 102 is also on Amazon, and www.holistichorseworks.com is my website call or e-mail if you have any questions. 

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

When I took my equine cranial class, we actually had to do a head dissection.  We got to see what was really in the horse's mouth and all the layers. It's amazing how just the cranial compression (when they pull back when tied) is affecting everything in their mouth and how they chew. 

When the teeth have sharp edges, hooks, and waves, sometimes the horse is biting the side of their tongue. They're getting pockets of feed up in their cheek. Some horses actually wad their food on purpose. They put it up there to protect an ulcer or sore on the inside of the mouth. 

The chestnut mare’s head that we had dissected, had a hole inside of the cheek wall with layers and layers of scar tissue and pieces are missing on the side of the tongue. Her teeth were all sharp hooks, like shark teeth. And they were loose in the gums like gingivitis. If you have a toothache, what are you going to try and do to get the food that is food lodged, out from there?  And you know, if you have a sore in your mouth, what are you going to try and do? 

When they do the pullback when tied, or get their head stuck in a fence, they shift the 26 cranial bones in their head. Their TMJ joint can't move sideways when they chew. And you'll notice this, when you look at your horse's head, the cheek muscles right under the jaw should be really thick. And the forehead muscles should be pretty flat. When you start to see those forehead muscles getting bigger, especially on one side, they're chewing more up and down on that side of their mouth. Kind of like if a tooth hurts on the left, you're going to push everything over to the right. 

In the wild, the horses don't have those issues, because they've never been haltered. They've never had their heads stuck in a fence or gone down in the trailer. So they grind their teeth more sideways like they're supposed to. 

The equine dentist that I would use, would work with the horse.  He’d stroke the horse, rub certain acupressure points on their face and calm them down. He didn't need to sedate them. He was so good and it was $50 to come to check your horse. If he just needed a hook taken down, he would do it. If he needed more work, it was like $100 to $150. So he would just check him every six to 12 months.

Anytime there's any kind of infection in the mouth, we do wet sloppy mash with beet pulp, some hay pellets, and some salt.  If you go to the dentist and you have cuts and sores in your mouth, or they pull a tooth, they'll tell you to swish and gargle with warm saltwater. 

For the horse, I use dynamite liquid trace minerals, three droppers-full.  If you only pull up half a dropper-full, you have to do six. So three dropper-fulls in their mouth for 10 or 11 days can help clean out any cavities or heal up any mouth sores and ulcers. It's also amazing for boosting their immune system and getting rid of bacterial sinus infections.  The horse that's always tossing its head and

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Why would a horse eat manure?

We've noticed is the horses that eat manure, whether it's theirs or another pasture mate, are  looking for pre-digested greens because their digestion is off track. They also need minerals and things that they're lacking. I really like the Dynamite company that makes all organic vitamins and other things. Without having to guess, you can call (800) 697-7434 and just tell them April Love sent you. 

Get  the Dynamite Plus vitamins, the plus meaning it has things for the gut and getting rid of parasites in the horse. It will give you better feet and you don't have to grain them. So the horses like the vitamins so much, you have two big scoops that they will eat it out of a pan or your hand. You have to be careful because the cats and dogs, chickens, everything else likes it too!

 You'll notice that then seven to 10 days, they'll stop eating the manure because you're giving the horse what they're looking for in digestion, nutrients, and supplements. 

Another thing that we see with the mineral-deficient horses is, especially the young horses, is eating the dam's tail hairs. You'll see one horse chewing on another's tail. It’s same thing, he’s looking for digestion, to get minerals. So even the foals, you can put them on a little bit of the Dynamite Plus pellets. And it's amazing how their coat changes, their hoof changes, or attitude changes when you can get them bio-available nutrients. 

And for people that don't want to grain the horse because they're not working hard, it's a really good way to get the good nutrition into them. 

You can also look at probiotics. I believe a liquid probiotic is better than a powdered probiotic. If your gut flora is off, or if you take antibiotics, which kills all your gut flora, a lot of doctors will say to eat yogurt. Well, can you imagine eating powdered yogurt? No!

If you're going to be feeding a probiotic to your horse, it should be in between meals and it should be a liquid that you can just put in their mouth. Dynamite company has a good one called Dynapro. 

You  can learn more in my free e-book at HorseAcademy101.com. And I have a book on Amazon, Horse 102, Holistic Alternatives. And of course my website holistichorseworks.com.

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

What’s in the water that your horse is drinking?

I've been doing distance readings. People send me in left and right picture of their horse name, age goals and any specific issues and I give them like a seven page report back on what's really going on with their horse. 

Seven or eight years ago, water source was not an issue and in the past three years, it's coming up to be 90 and 95% of all the distance readings I'm doing. It’s heavy metals, high iron, high calcium, etc. 

People don't think about that but it really affects the horse and it throws off how they can assimilate nutrition. So the really important thing when we're hydrating ourselves is to have pure water without other things in it. 

So it's really important in our toxic world, that the horses are getting more pure water. So high calcium water is going to create excessive arthritis in your horse.  And also the enteroliths, the stones that grow in the intestines which is calcium surrounding a foreign object like a piece of plastic or baling twine they ingested. The body keeps surrounding it with that calcium until you have a big stone and a mysterious colic. So if they're not having to take in all those toxins every day they can flush their cells and detox easier.

So when the horses are toxic, and we do the readings we always recommend the Nano Zeolites like NCD or ACZ that you can find on Amazon. and we usually do 10 to 15 drops two times a day for horses for about 20 days. And for people you can do about eight to 10 drops or three to four sprays in your mouth, three or four times a day, it pulls out the mercury in the aluminum.

So it's all about what we are, is what we drink. You'll notice a huge change in your horses once you start filtering their drinking water. Learn more on my website, holistichorseworks.com and yoga for horses, and 140 other helpful YouTube videos on my YouTube channel, holistichorseworks.com and also my free e-book, HorseAcademy 101.com.

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

An owner had a horse that was acting up and they were going to send it to a trainer. But is it really a training problem? Or is it the horse trying to tell them that they're in pain?

We've been taught that if the horse doesn't want to canter to the left or the right or doesn't, want to do a certain thing in their body is that they're being stubborn on purpose, or it's a weakness. I remember training horses and it didn't want to canter to the right.  I was told, well it's just weak on that side. So you make them do three times as many circles to the right as to the left, when actually it's because the right shoulder can't move correctly and the horses in its own way saying.  “I don't want to go that way.”

If you're looking at horse language, and you brush them somewhere and they pin their ears, that's an area of pain. If you put a saddle blanket on and they're pinning their ears and shivering their withers that's letting you know that ribs and withers are not in perfect alignment. And muscles when they over tighten, create spasms. Then they pull bones too close together. 

So it's a lot easier and cheaper if we can start listening to the horses at a younger age. Is it a stubborn behavioral issue, or is there something uncomfortable in the body and they don't want to do it that way?  If you start looking at the hooves of the horse, you're going to see four hooves out of balance.

 That tells me the inner muscles, pectorals, inside your psoaz, and your hocks are over tight, not allowing the joint to move correctly. And then we create extra stress by keep asking the horse to do the same thing that's already creating pain in the first place. 

So if the right shoulder, and the right hip can't move correctly, they have to borrow extra from the left side to try and do that. 

That's what creates your chiropractic issues. But most chiropractors just come and fix the withers and the spine and the hips and don't look for the cause. 

 When you do my program, which is everything from teeth to tail.

There are no big words like, “medial laterally rotated.”  I just say if it if you push here, and the horse is reactive, this is how you fix it and we go through the whole horse from nose to tail, and hoof up.

 And the testimonials I get just really warms my heart.

 So you can start with my free e-book HorseAcademy101.com. And I have a Horse 102, Holistic Alternatives on Amazon. I have a home study program which you get my help and a free distance reading on my website: Equinemusculoskeletalunwinding.com, so that you can learn how to fix your horse yourself and then there's hardly any training left to do the horse wants to be with you. 

So give me a jingle or e-mail me [email protected].

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Why do horses repeatedly spook at the same things? I have a couple of diagnostic head videos on my YouTube channel about what's really going on with the horse's head.

Also, check out my craniosacral page on my website. If you go up to your horse's head and lift the chin a little bit, (like you're going to kiss him on the nose) and look at their eyes, you'll see one's pointing off one direction and one's pointing off way out to the side.

The eyes should be symmetrical and when they are not, that affects the horse’s depth perception. I've heard from a lot of riders that they have an older horse. Right about the time when the horse’s brain is really good, the horse will start spooking at something they go by every day. I ask if they notice if it's always on the left side or the right side? Because, if it's only one side, it means the vision on that side is impaired.

The near eye couldn't focus on the object so the horse didn't see it. The horse will turn his head and all of a sudden it comes into view in the other eye, and it’s like a predator suddenly appearing! Of course, they’re going to jump!

I've also noticed that some horses that had high loads of parasites in the past have vision issues. I had a mare that if she was in front of the other horses on the trail, she'd see something up to the left about 30 yards off and she'd shoot backward and there was nothing I could do to stop her.

Previously, when the parasite load was so high in her body, they were in her eyes. The wormer killed the worms but left their remains in the eyes, creating floaters that affected her vision. After a month of sterile MSM eye drops, it cleared her vision and I could ride her in front again without the spooking.

Cranial displacement also affects their vision. After we manually move those cranial bones people notice that their horse will ride on a loose rein, with their head down, barely even looking at anything anymore because they can focus on things in their environment.
Besides vision issues, addressing cranial issues helps many other things. 

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks

Have a question you'd like April to answer on the show? Send us a text!

Nothing is more frustrating than having a horse refuse to get on the trailer, especially if you need to home!

There's a reason behind the horse's unwillingness and it's usually not stubbornness.
Would you want to ride in an uncomfortable car? No? Neither does your horse! We'll start with the ones that are already trained. A lot of people just don't realize how bad the trailer can be.

When I was training safe trail horses, I could load three horses in 90 seconds by myself. At the trailhead, I’d see people who had been out riding and their horse didn't want to load again. They’ve got a brand new trailer and they're wondering how I can load three horses in 90 seconds. They're sitting there for 10 or 15 minutes trying to get the horse to get back in the trailer.

If you have a well-trained horse that doesn't want to get in a trailer you should look at your trailer. Every time I bought in a horse trailer I've asked them to balance the tires Have you ever driven down the freeway at 60 miles an hour when one weight has fallen off your tire and the whole thing is shimmying? That's what happens in the horse trailer with these unbalanced horse trailer tires. You're putting the horse in something that has a lot of vibration so it feels like an earthquake!

The second thing you need to look at is where the bridles and halters hang. Imagine when you're going down a bumpy road and the horse feels vibration up their legs, and the bridles and halters going bang, bang, bang, bang, bang!

So what I did is I got an old yoga mat and I glued it on that wall, to prevent the banging.
The other thing that many people do is clean out the horse trailer. Then it might smell like bleach or something and the horse didn't want to get in it.

I bought an 18-month old black Arab stallion that had never been on a trailer. I went into his stall with a wheelbarrow and picked up shavings that had his urine and poop on them. I put it in the horse trailer and spread it all around. I walked him up to it and he sniffed it. It's like he was saying, “Oh, there's my poop and pee, I must have already been here. So it must be safe to get in.”

He just loaded right up.

We need to be looking at things from the horse's point of view. At one bodywork clinic, there were horses that wouldn’t load onto a step-up trailer. After three days of unwinding bodywork, they all just stepped up in the trailer.

One owner already had a whip in hand, but never had to use it. Her horse was totally locked up in the front end. After the clinic, he could step up nicely into the trailer.

🎉📱 Coming Soon— Holistic Horseworks Remedies! A new app for remedial horse therapy, from nose to tail, hoof to withers. Learn more at app.holistichorseworks.com. 

To keep learning about horses:
• Sign up for our email list: https://bit.ly/44t9Q1V
• Get the free Horse 101 ebook: https://bit.ly/3ChKAQr
• Shop videos & courses: https://bit.ly/43vhsku
• See the global clinic schedule: https://bit.ly/3CZiaee
• Visit the HHW website: www.holistichorseworks.com

Thanks for listening!
#holistichorseworkstalks