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Herbs for Calming Horses:
Our different blends of herbs for horses provide the natural horse care that you are looking for. If you do not want to spend so much money on a chemical tranquilizer that may negatively affect your horse, here is more information about herbs that will calm your horses down.
Chamomile, Lemon Balm, Valerian, and Wood Betony all work very well! In my opinion, they are much better than a chemical tranquilizer and they can be given an hour before needed.
It is important to try and discover the cause of the horse's excitement. Behavior of this sort can be caused by any number of situations: lack of experience, excitement at meeting other horses, poor discipline, fear, pain, anticipation of competition or just a rush of adrenalin caused by the atmosphere at an event.
If it is just that the horse needs more exercise or is getting too much high-energy feed for the workload, then the answer is simple. Herbs cannot and should not be used as a replacement for proper exercise, schooling, discipline, experience or to mask pain. The can, however, be used to calm a horse that gets over-excited and tense because of outside influences, "competition nerves" or insecurity.
