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Apple Cider Vinegar

Apple Cider Vinegar for

Helps balance pH and works to detox

Raw/unprocessed, unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) is great for you and your horse to help balance pH. Even though ACV is acidic to taste, it throws off an alkaline ash once in the body and is thought to help restore the acid alkaline balance in the body.

It’s important to purchase only unpasteurized, organic ACV, which contains mother of vinegar. It has a cobweb-like appearance and can make the vinegar look slightly congealed. It’s the only way apple cider vinegar should be consumed. Bragg’s is a popular brand with wide distribution, available at health food stores and online.

Used as a traditional cure for a multitude of ills over the centuries, ACV’s effectiveness has been scientifically proven for improving diabetes, heart health and blood pressure, detoxifying and cleansing the digestive tract and cleaning out the colon, clearing funguses and skin allergies, killing or slowing the growth of cancer cells and lowering body fat/weight.

Additional Benefits for Horses

- helps with mineral absorption and breaking down calcium deposits

- aids in treating arthritis, laminitis, navicular (an acidic condition)

- aids in digestion, particularly proteins and fats

- promotes the growth of healthy microflora (apple cider vinegar is a prebiotic, which feeds probiotics, the healthy microflora in your and your horse's inner ecosystem)

- discourages flies from attacking as it comes out through sweat

- makes a great non-toxic fly spray (for one recipe, visit http://photopuncture.com/s/flyspray)

To Aid Detox: Add 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar to a 1- or 2-liter filtered water bottle. Drink this throughout the day to cleanse your body and kidneys all day long. For your horse, start with a tablespoon in a bucket and work up to ¼ cup a day. Many horses love it and drink more water as a result, staying nicely hydrated.

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Apple Cider Vinegar for horses

How do you feed it? Plastic water tanks off gas so I use galvanized metal tanks. But when I add too much vinegar the water gets rank smelling and black. What reaction if happening and how should I give it? Keep moss and junk from growing in the tank!

C'Dale Jore more than 8 years ago

feeding apple cider vinegar to horse

I poor a few kettles of boiling water over our hay to reduce sugars, and then rinse with cold water; then I rinse with apple cider vinegar... and I feed them hay that has absorbed some of the vinegar into it... I also add beet pulp and, if they don't seem like they're feeling optimal, extra probiotics, like HealthyGut Probiotics for Horses.

Everett Fuller more than 5 years ago

Watering

Because ACV is acidic, it leeches (toxic) minerals from metal, which, when consumed, can kill horses. (This is why people thought tomatoes were toxic for so long, as the tomatoes leeched minerals from the metal plates used, and would kill those who ate them.) Therefore, if you are going to feed ACV through water, it must be in a rubber or hard plastic tank/ bucket. I would recommend adding a small bucket with water & ACV, and using your current tank for plain water. As, with any water additives, fresh plain water should always be available as well.

kim more than 2 years ago