Colostrum is the pre-milk liquid produced from the mammary glands during the first 24-48 hours after birth. During this short duration of time, the immune factors and the growth factors are still at their peak and contain several times the factors compared to colostrum taken during later milkings.

Now that the credit crunch is in full swing some people have come to the conclusion that it would be more economical to drive a horse than to drive a car. This is an option that can be very enjoyable - visions of driving around country roads in the springtime is very appealing. It’s not very practical option for most of us In city centres nowadays there are very few stables or stableyards.

Most horse owners make the mistake of assuming that the horse see the world as we humans do and that is not the case at all. It is true that we are both mammals and that makes us close in great many aspects such and nutritional needs as well as need for rest. However the human evolution and the horse’s evolution brought us in two different directions and will therefore give the horse a very different reality than ours.

There are so many different way to go about training a horse, that it’s become more difficult for people to know really where to start. With that in mind people should really consider doing more research on the many different ways they could go, when it comes to training their horse. Providing that one gets a really good understanding of horses and where they are coming from; that should in-able individual to make informative choice.

The fundamental difference between what has come to be generically called “natural horsemanship” and what has been accepted over time as traditional training techniques comes down to one question: When you look at your horse, what do you see? Many people see the horse as a creature to be controlled and dominated through a process commonly known as “breaking.”