Grander Water - You can take a horse to water... and you can make it drink

You can take a horse to water... and you can make it drink

Getting a horse to drink sufficient water can be vital for its health and well being. During the recent hot summer lack of sufficient water intake showed in split and chipped hooves, lack of new horn growth, as well as a dry coat. Dehydration in competition horses is understood as a problem, but it is also essential in horses who are recovering from illness and are on their way back to good health.

Felicity Wilson, the well-known horse healer explains, “Recovering animals often need to flush toxins from the body. Getting the horse to drink properly is an important factor in the healing process”.

Spring Gift, a bay gelding was sent to Felicity for healing after two years of conventional veterinary treatment. His owner was desperate to end a pattern of lameness which recurred when he returned to fast work. As he would only drink the top few centimetres of water from his buckets each day, Felicity felt that he would be in a permanent state of dehydration which would be detrimental to his rate of his recovery. In the past he had received a variety of veterinary treatments including neck manipulation under anaesthetic, x-rays and gamma scintigraphy to search for inflammation hot spots. Felicity wanted the horse to drink more water to rehydrate his body and support her non-invasive practices of Equine Touch, Healing and Bach flower remedies. Spring Gift, however, had other ideas and refused to drink any extra water.

On recommendation from a friend Felicity Wilson installed a water revitalising unit from Grander Water into the water trough. It is a simple metal rod which contains re-vitalised water and improves the quality of adjacent water.

“The impact was immediate” explains Felicity.“ I put the unit in the water and walked off with a friend and stood chatting nearby. After about half an hour I realised that Spring Gift had not followed us back across the field as he normally would, but remained at the trough. It was as though he wanted to be close to the water.

In the fortnight that followed Spring Gift gradually drank more and more water from his buckets in the stable which were filled using a portable unit from Grander. Eventually he was drinking approximately three or four times as much water a day.

“The real confirmation came”, continues Felicity, “when Alan Bailey, the remedial farrier asked what I had been giving the horse. He had produced 10 weeks’ worth of good quality horn in 5 weeks, which was in sharp contrast to other horses in similar hot dry conditions during the summer. Subsequently all the farriers I work with have asked me the same question about the horses I am healing.”

Spring Gift is now in the peak of condition. He is back to cantering and jumping and has not experienced any of the lameness which had constantly put him back in the equine hospital.

“There have been a great number of unexpected benefits” says Felicity “the water trough is much cleaner than it would normally be at this time of year. This means the horses are drinking better quality water with no algae, and we don’t have to clean out the trough!"

As a healer and body worker I am passionate about animals’ well-being and am amazed how everything is improved: coat, soft tissue and hooves. I now use Grander Water in my Bach flower remedies and I am convinced that they are having a more potent effect. Improvements take place every day, and of course there is none of the placebo effect that can occur with humans.”

Felicity uses a portable unit to wash the horses down, and to fill their stable drinking buckets. She also has a plumbed in unit for her home, and has noticed a reduction in limescale and the need for cleaning products and soap powder, and that her own hard-worked hands are much softer.

Felicity Wilson heals and cares for horses specialising in Equine Touch, Bach flower remedies and other modalities and runs courses to train animal healers. She is based in Wiltshire and also has a clinic in St Albans which she co-ran with Charles Siddle who left the practice to her when he died. Charles was well-known for his healing of horses and had been featured on the TV programme “Strange but True”.

To discover whether Grander Water could help your horses, or to find out about training as an animal healer please contact Felicity via http://www.beaconhealing.com/.

Grander units used at Beacon Healing:

Portable water revitaliser:	stand pipe in the stables
Small revitalising rod:	horse troughs
Grander revitalising unit:	installed in the house

For more information on the units click here.

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