I don't have horses, and will never. But did I watch a 22 min long video about feeding horse hay... Yes... Why? becuase I'm invested.

Yes yes yes! Thank you for bringing attention to this. As a holistic farrier who advocates for forage diets I often hear "performance horses need grain to do their jobs" or "forage diets only work for pasture puff horses". It's so refreshing for someone at the elite performance level to speak up about the damage that we inadvertently do to our horses by feeding them products with so many harmful additives.

LOVE this video!!! I switched to forage only feed several years ago. I can honestly say it's the best thing I have ever done for my horses. So many people think I'm crazy. Having someone like you out there competing at such a top level feeding a forage diet maybe more people will listen. 🤠🐴

Constant hay is the key. They say you should put the hay in all corners of a stall for stalled horses. It keeps them moving and chewing evenly from left to right and right to left

Yes yes yes! As a trained chef and herbalist and a goat owner you are spot on! When I took grain away from my goats and just went to forage, my parasite load dropped drastically and less gut issues. Same with people. Junk in, junk out!! Brave of you to speak the truth!!!

I was always taught that if you were working horses (un-naturally), you need to feed them grain. I love this! Definitely better to be grain free.

We need more videos like this. Healthy environment, I pray that you get new sponsors with healthy alternatives..The more knowledge we have the better off we will be.

Yaaayyyyy Fallon!! I’ve never fed my horses grain. I learned 40 years ago that quality hay was the best for our horses. Never once did I have one colic. I owned and competed on ALOT of horses!!

Would love a start-to-finish video of the testing and treating process. I.e. new horse in the barn: how to do the test, where to send, reading the results, determining where they are deficient, finding the right products to supplement, etc. etc. Thank you for this insight, Fallon & team!

Having been a hay producer, I believe you said you may test your hay. In my opinion since you are feeding only hay that is the first thing you want to test. I always provided a hay analysis. Every field is different. It will tell you about nitrates, digestablity, protiens etc. Just something to consider in your research and feeding program. I enjoy your channel !!!!

This video sent me down a rabbit hole to possibly getting to the root of my 2 ponies's cushing's disease after years of vets telling me there's no real cause of it I found out it's because of mineral deficiencies and heavy metal toxicity. Thank you so much for opening my eyes and hopefully saving my mini's life ❤️

I love this video!! You knocked it out of the park! If we wouldn’t eat pre packaged crap filled with glyphosate and inflammatory oils..why would we feed it to our beloved animals! We’ve even done this with our cats. Kibble was created out of convenience and unfortunately it’s caused, cancer, reproductive issues, shorter life spans and inflammation in our cats&dogs as well. Great job!

Another thing, when we have a bad crop of alfalfa (it gets rained on etc.) We sell it and they make it into alfalfa cubes. Think about that when you are buying cubes.

Thank you so much for sharing this info and helping so many horses and their owners.

Thank You Fallon! I went too forage only about 6 months ago and what a difference. I was told my horses would loose weight and be sluggish, you know people that don’t know better! 💗🥰🙏🏻

I SO needed this video today. Perfect information at the perfect time.

YAYY!!! So happy to see so many ppl go grain free and holistic with herbs!

Yes! I have been advocating for this very type of feeding routine for my horses for some time now. It blows my mind how much doubt and resistance I was met with! Thank you Fallon for speaking up!

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This was one of the BEST informative videos I have seen that is straight forward on what we are putting into our barrel horses.

I love this! I was pretty big on natural forage diets as well. I admit I got sucked into giving my harder keeper grain recently..and the amount triple crown recommends. I needed this video. Thank you!!

So proud of you thanks for putting this out🙌❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much for this info. I have been thinking about going to a forage diet for my horses but was skeptical. This was very informative and gave me more things to research and try out.

Thanks Fallon for sharing your thoughts & experiences with us. It is nice for the equine family to share experiences for our love for horses. I grew up with horses. My dad bred and raised Quarter Horses most of my life on the Navajo Reservation. I grew up riding and roping, then graduated to racing horses.

This was crazy fascinating! I don’t have horses (yet) but I love videos like this. Of course consult professionals first, but I would love to see you put more videos like this out there! Cheering for you Fallon!

I’ve been waiting for this! I’ve been curious about what we humans eat and what horses eat. I loved the video and I’m definitely going to go dig around for more info. Thanks for sharing your path and giving tips on where to start and what to look at!

Thank you for taking the time to make this video I thoroughly enjoyed it! And totally agree. Love the science you bring into it.

Yes!!! Grain free for the last 5 years. Thank you for this video and letting us know what you are doing 💜

THANK YOU for making this vlog!! I hope this can help influence more of the performance and horse world in general to look into how conventional feeds could be affecting their horses. My personal horses have never had anything other than a forage diet. Love love love the effort you’ve put into your horse’s health! 🤍🤍

I LOVE that you are talking about this topic!!! My diet journey also went hand in hand with my horses. We all ended up 'forage' only and have been the healthier for it. Buy MANY people have thought I was crazy.

I’m so glad to hear you advocating for this! I been researching for a long time and we started doing the same about a year ago and are noticing big changes. Thanks to your video, I’m going to follow up with adding testing to see if we are missing anything. Great info and on point video!

Amazing! Makes some much sense! I avoid inflammatory oils, so I love the idea of doing the same for our horses! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks Fallon for the mention! As you said, Nolasix is such a valuable asset to support the vascular system of the horse. Keep sharing information like this, it makes such a difference to the horses of the people that watch and implement your videos.

My head spun when you mentioned the MTHFR gene!! I have a mutation in this gene as well and it’s an under tested issue.. thank you for sharing!! You’re amazing & such an inspiration!

This is so refreshing! I love that the people I admire are always evolving and growing. We haven't fed grains to our horses in a very long time, we always do hay (we don't have the resources to get all the kinds but our horses are still doing great) I give out a mineral blend every few days and we put something called EMs (I forget the full name) in their water every day, it's just a fermented brew that we make from molasses, water and an EM starter, we've been using it for about 20 years now and have never had an issue with worms or any other fungus infection, it's great for gut bacteria and the horses absolutely love it, my horse won't drink water without it, I highly recommend!

Thank you! I’m a western pleasure rider and I’ve always had questions about feeding. There are so many products and opinions.

Yesss! This. Awesome video. Thank you!! Our vet has been preaching a forage diet. We follow it and our horses are so healthy.

Great info! I've been eating organic for 15 years to turn my health around. My horses get a mix pasture grass and different grass bales to supplement in the winter. I hear you load and clear on mixing grasses. Myself alfalfa was designed and made for for cattle as my Dad sold farm equipment for 30 years. Last time I fed alfalfa grass mix and my horses colic so I ex out alfalfa completely. So glad you are spreading this information. Love those hay bags as well. Look into intermittent fasting for yourself to heal your own body.

Loved this! I've been trying to move this way, as even a small amount of grain has been causing ulcers for one of my gals. Forage only (plus a couple of Redmond products) and she has been doing amazing for a year now. Hope to continue learning and maybe do some more research into what you talked about today! Thank you :)

Thank you. I have mules that I keep food in front of all the time. Having horses again they are on the same routine and it makes a huge difference.

Gives me a lot to think about.. And I learned a lot, will look into learning more. Thank you so much for your opinions and your knowledge!

Solid information. Great video and totally agree. It takes some trial and error to see what works best for each horse. Thanks for sharing!

I love seeing you improving your ethics! lovely to see a top lvl barrel racer doing good for their horses! next step barefoot and bites

Love, love, love this video! I switched to an all forage diet last year based on personal research. I'm using Standlee products, Redmond's Daily Gold and Daily Red, ground flax and diatomaceous earth. Love the results and so happy to have my horses off of all the processed pellet grains.

Love this, absolutely sound advice! Research, test, go as whole foods as possible!! Years ago, when grain was fed, it was whole grain! Not processed! Find out what is best for each horse!!

I have switched to filtered water without chlorine and aluminum 2 months ago and this just fully reassured me I’m not alone

I love you Fallon! Thank you for doing the footwork and sharing your knowledge with us! I met you in Davie, Fl & you are a wonderful person! Thanks for the KZfaq’s & Podcasts!

I’d love to see a follow up video after 6 months or a year with what you notice. I’ve been trying to go forage only but I have a hard keeper so haven’t quite nailed it yet. Love those hay nets!

Stopped feeding grain over 9 years ago. Switched to whole food vitamins and minerals mixed in Coolstance Coconut Copra. Great informative video!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO! I got my first horse two years ago and I made a huge research before, s she has always had a forage diet (with a supplement, because we dont have access to pasture all year around, and hay doesnt cover all the necessities alone). I recommend Portoverde haynets!! We use them a lot here in Spain!

Loved the video, I have been feeding forage only for a yr and half with amazing results, I add a couple of holistic additives and they all get a small amounts of chopped hay with beet pulp and flax at night along with 3 full hay bags set at different heights to keep there necks moving and 4 buckets of fresh water, During the day they are out with round bales. Also having different types of hay for them is also I find so important, we have here meadow, Timothy and alfalfa. Also I have a Shetland in with the herd that does not over indulge he is 29yrs young fit healthy and active. You and your team are awesome. God bless

I love this! Thank you Fallon! I have been forage only for four years. I feed Crypto Aero Wild Forage, their Plus supplement, grey sea salt, and timothy hay. All my horses look and feel amazing. I would never go back to processed feeds.

Fallon, you are spot on!!! 👏 great job

I LOVEE this so much! Thank you for taking such good care of your horses! I hope to be similar to you one day ❤ and I love giving them different kinds of hay. Im a firm believer in horses know what they need so options for them are wonderful! ❤

I no longer barrel race...and now compete/ride distance competitive trail. In the past year we too have eliminated grain and feed a mix of bermuda hay, alfalfa hay, and of course pasture in season. We do give 1# soaked alfalfa pellets Am/PM to carry the Vermont blend that we also use. VERY interesting to see you now doing basically the same. Our horses are doing very well on this regimen.

I love that you share all ur findings from research. THANKS

Another amazing thing to look into is free choice minerals! It’s amazing to me to see what they go after some weeks, and then the next week it’s a totally different mineral! ❤️

Great video. My father has always stressed more hay! Farm always fed very little grain. We buy the best hay we can horses have free choice hay 24/7. Great research.

This is so informative. Truly amazingly informative and it has really opened my mind about a lot of things .

We love this amazing video. We are super proud of you and doing a lot of research for you and for your amazing horses .I will do my own research for my horses to . Thanks for the amazing advice and amazing help and research . I hope to meet you and your horses in person someday this year and We are fans of you Fallon Taylor forever. From Angela & Amy & Jessica .

I was so pumped to see my name pop up on your video. I have a recently diagnosed horse with PSSM so I’ve been going down a RABBIT HOLE on nutrition and I’m still tweaking. One of things I use is Costco Organic Chia seeds for the Omega. I’m also looking into Stable Feeds Spirulina Chia that helps the immune system. Awesome video and I can’t wait to see your next video. Hopefully some day I can see you and Cody make a run.

Great information!! I’m in a Australia and we feed 5x4 round bales of hay 24/7 in slow feeding hay net. I only give a bucket of feed after they’ve worked. It’s basically only beet pulp to be able to mix in and a vitamin/mineral mix for my local area. Plus salt. Keep it basic. If horses need energy/weight/topline add some alfalfa hay and they should be looking amazing. We also feed alfalfa while we tack up, this neutralises stomach acids to help prevent ulcers.

Fascinating information. I had a friend that was a compounding pharmacist back in the early 2000's. He showed me data from Europe where canola oil was considered an industrial weight oil for machinery and banned as a food substance over there. He also spoke against soy in the diet. He spent countless hours doing research to verify what he said. Turned out that soy is a huge no no for people who have or had thyroid cancer. Spinach and almonds are very high in oxalate which form a type of kidney stone. Food and suppliments are just as you have said, not a panacea. Thank you for this video, what we put in our bodies and our animals is a dynamic process.

thank you Ms. Fallon. started on a relentless equine diet research when our mare tested postitive for cushings. thank you for all the links you shared, will research on. God bless you and your family.

Thank you!!! Any updates along the way would be appreciated. ❤❤❤

After doing our own research and talking to our vet we use the Redmond rock salt for our cattle and horses. Plus, Our horses are mainly forage only as well, except when we have visitors they like to give them a "treat" aka corn for the bin. And we feed our cattle forage and/or they graze there own forage. Extremely little grain (except for when fatting up to butcher the last x amount of days or out grazing corn stalks). We live in South Dakota, where there is a lot of snow and freezing cold! Our forage feeds has been working great of us for 4 years, we won't go back!

EXCELLENT video!! I work for Silver Lining Herbs and we get calls daily from wonderful people who have horses (and dogs!) that are struggling with Metabolic/IR issues. Molasses is a by-product and really only added to enhance the palatability of feed, not to mention that it also feeds the bad bacteria in an existing ulcer or lesion. And, yes, many pelleted feeds and other supplements on the market still contain molasses, so I always encourage folks to become avid label readers! Thank you, thank you, thank you for such great information, Fallon!!

Thank you for that, I learned alot an appreciated all the time you put into figuring all this all for everyone.

Thank you, thank you! I cannot agree more with ALL of what you said. I've been feeding my wild-caught Mustang, keeping her as close to her natural habitat, for the almost 15yrs I've owned her. Wild horses sure don't eat grains. Most of them look fabulous... and because they know where to get their minerals, in addition to the forage they eat. I feed Standlee timothy pellets, soaked, and add Big Sky Minerals on top. My mare has always done fabulous, but I would love to get a mineral analysis done on her. Thanks!

thank you! im still young and am planning on getting my second horse and it was good for me to watch this video.

The information in this vlog shouldn't have been free! Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge! 🧡🧡🧡

I love this! I do feed some grain (Tribute), but I’ve increased my forage (hay and Standlee pellets). I have an IR laminitic horse that is full forage, Timothy pellets and soaked hay as I had it tested and it was higher in NSC than I was comfortable with. All my horses have 24h access to hay.

I 100% agree with you on the forage feeding!! I did the same with my Horses for 35+ yrs and my horses never had colic or foundered! If they needed any extra weight I added some plain rolled oats! Why? Because in the wild they can find and forage oats to fatten up before winter. I too broke my neck in a horse accident when I was 15, I only had to get a halo brace and wasn't as bad as your accident. Your doing a great job and ignore the naysayers!

I am so glad more people are become aware of these topics!!

Please do more collection videos. Bridles, tack, bits, saddle pads, etc. Love your channel!

Love this. We all need to do better! My gelding only gets pelleted supplements as our forage and soil within a 3-4 hour radius is all deficient in certain vitamins that can cause neuro issues so its something we need to watch out for

Excellent video! Thank you for sharing your honest opinion. Very interesting perspective. I’ll do some research, but again thank you.

Wonderful advice! Thanks Fallon! ❤

Love it!! We have always free feed our horses and overall they are very healthy! When I first went off to college I was having a hard time with certain foods. Got tested and learned my blood type, learned I have to eat differently. Feeling so so much better! You do your research ☺👍 Respect the science!

Hi Fallon! You are such an inspiration to me and I love your videos❤

Thank you for explaining this! Everyone at the barn or my horse friends think I am crazy for doing this!! My filly has never had grain or anything but forage and she is amazing!!

You are absolutely right, l have race horses and I produce my own hay. My hay mix is timothy, alfalfa, red and white clover. My horses have hay all day in slow feeder hay net, less lameness, less stomach problems and less vet bills. Horses need a lot of fibers. I sell all the best hay I can make for the best of the horses. Agree with you 100 %%%%

This was very interesting information Fallon and I definitely will Google vegetable oil. Thank you‼️💕💕😊😊😊

YASSSSSS!!!!! Best video!! 🎉 Thank you for answering so much that I have been thinking!!

Easily one of my favorite videos you have ever done

You should start growing your own hay I think with your enthusiasm you would have a lot of fun with different pasture mixers 💕 love your work and I couldn’t agree more

Fallon you are a wealth of knowledge, we believe everything that we are told to be gospel with no research, Tku for taking time out to share this info 👌🙏🙏

Thank you so much!

Chaffhaye is pretty amazing too! My horses love it and looking great. Something you may want to look into ♥️

Love this video! I have a hard keeper but I’m going to start trying this!!

Love that you shared this! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing this Fallon❤

I have fed hygain showtorque for years. I had a horse that colic’d constantly. A rep from hygain which is in Australia, happened to be at my feed store. He gave me some of this feed to try. My horse never colic’d again. It’s all natural, grain free. I feed a very small amount with free choice hay that is a mix of tift 85 and alfalfa. A Free choice salt block and one ounce of Comega oul per day and my horses have never been healthier. A mainly forage diet is the best, but a horses diet is dependent on the region they’re originally from. ie my quarter horse comes from Montana. She now lives in Georgia. Water, grass, weather…it all plays a big part in dietary needs.

You’ve done your homework lady❤ Love of the Horse❤

I have always fed hay only. Every now and then rolled oat added due to cold temps.

This answered my question on tiktok! Thanks! Love this and you and your team!

Love this! Do you have any “clean”, non toxic recommendations for fly spray, shampoos, etc.??

Loved this Thx!!! Looove those hay bags

Such Great information!!! Thank you ma’am!!

Omg so love this beyond words. I'm not alone in this journey to get away from the toxic. Any recommendations for dog food too?

I have been watching you since 2012, yours has been an incredible journey and I love the direction you are going. I stopped using grains 2 years ago and have started using herbal supplements. My horses have blossomed with a forage based diet and I can't wait to see yours do the same!