Treating Buffalo Fly in Cattle and Horses

January 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment

What affect Buffalo Fly has on the animal

(Information provided by Qld DPI)

Buffalo fly irritate cattle, interrupting feeding and causing sores especially when infestations are high. Trials in the wet tropics have shown that buffalo fly can reduce beef cattle production by up to 16%. A small parasitic worm (Stephanofilaria spp.) is associated with buffalo fly bites and causes skin lesions. Sores from buffalo fly infestations result in permanent hide damage therefore decreasing the value of the hide. These lesions may also restrict access of stock to the live export trade.

Dark coated cattle, bulls, older cattle and those in poor condition usually attract the heaviest infestations of fly. Bos indicus cattle seem to carry high numbers but do not appear to be as severely affected as other breeds.

How Homeopathy is a natural safe solution?

The DPI states that animals “in poor condition” will attract the most buffalo fly.  We find that cows in calf or lactating to feed their babies will often be a candidate for buffalo flies.  We talk here of cattle however the same is true for horses.  In fact the same is true for all animals when it comes to parasite control.  A strong healthy animal is not a good home for parasites – fleas, ticks, flies, mosquitoes will naturally go to the weaker animals in an area.

Using the natural healing power of homeopathy we work with building the immune system of the animal.  Ideally you would jump in with the remedy before the season gets too hot thereby avoiding the initial problem.  The homeopathic blend we have created for treating Buffalo fly will assist with the consequences of the bites – the burning and toxins while at the same time building the system to create more immunity in the animal.

Treatment using the remedy is simply by treating the cattle through the race with the remedy dissolved into a spray bottle or similar.  With horses just 2-3 drops inside the mouth.  Repeat weekly if possible throughout the heat of Summer.  The following year get onto it in mid-late Spring and aim to avoid the problem in the first place.

Purchase your Buffalo Fly Remedy Today.  Click here to go to our Farm & Horse remedies page.

Testimonial from Sandy H., Toogoolawah Qld

My horses have been annoyed by buffalo fly during the day and mosquitos and midges at night. Early in the morning and early in the evening were the worst times with the normhorses all agitated, tails swishing, kicking out and running about.

I came across the Heal with Ease website while looking for a natural remedy to help my horses with this problem. I don’t like the idea of constantly putting chemicals on my animals to deter insects. I emailed Cathy at Heal with Ease for some information about the buffalo fly remedy and she replied that day.

I rang Cathy and ordered the buffalo fly remedy and the beginner’s kit and she put them in the mail for me straight away. I received them the next day. As soon as I got the remedy I started dosing my horses per Cathy’s instructions. After two days, two of my horses had a huge reduction in the number of buffalo fly on them and after five days were fly free. My other two horses took a little longer but after ten days now have just a couple of flies each on them. At dusk, when the mosquitos and midges come out, the horses haven’t been showing their normal agitation. I would say that the remedy is helping with that also.

The remedy is easy to give to my horses. I mix the drops with a little water in a syringe and squirt it into their mouths. After I had given them the first couple of doses I now don’t even need to put a halter on them. I show each horse the syringe; they sniff it, and then open their mouth for me to squirt it in.

My horses are much happier and are spending more time grazing instead of worrying about insects biting them. Thank you Heal with Ease for a wonderful product and thank you to Cathy for her support and answering my many questions so quickly.

NB:  It is important to note here that Sandy purchased a Beginners Kit at the same time and the two horses that still had flies were treated using the remedies in the Beginners Kit to assist in returning them to good health, thereby assisting the Buffalo Fly remedy to complete a good healing.

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Improve fertility in stock animals

November 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

For many years now we have been helping many people – farmers, dog and cat breeders and even women increase the fertility in their animals and themselves to allow a happy, healthy pregnancy and birth to follow.

In women it is often seen that complicated births can affect further pregnancies.  The same is true of our domestic animals – dogs, cats, cows, horses, you name it, if a problem or slightly imperfect jorja-and-her-pupsbirth is experienced by the female then it can be hard to successfully mate them again.

Ideally breeders would have remedies at the birth to assist with shock, afterbirth, mastitis, bonding and like issues.  Remedies to help the milk drop properly for the babies, allow them to suckle properly and help mum’s uterus to cleanse and return to proper shape.  However using the homeopathic remedies, even if everything wasn’t perfect last time, we can usually assist in cleansing the uterus and reproductive system, allowing for further pregnancies without complication.

Examples of how we have used these remedies:

A few years ago two dog trialling associates of ours both had bitches that hadn’t cycled for many years.  They had just given up on them ever breeding again.  They couldn’t tell us if their last litters were difficult in any way.  We treated both bitches with the fertility remedy, six weeks to the day they both cycled for the first time in years and nine weeks later two litters were on the ground.

This story is so common to us that it seems an everyday thing, but we know that if you are waiting for a special breeder or relying on your flock or mob to get good conception/birthing rates then this is a big deal.

dscf3598An example of how this works effectively on farm was received just two weeks ago and we would like to share this with you.  Paul and Maree have a flock of stud Dorper Ewes in NSW.  Fertility hasn’t been as high as they would like and often the season has been dry enough for mum’s to abandon the lambs to ensure their own survival.

This year, Paul and Maree gave all their ewes the fertility remedy six weeks prior to putting out the rams.  This is a simple process done by putting the ewes through the race and treating with a water spray bottle containing the remedy.  The rams went out for six weeks and when it was time to lamb all ewe’s had finished within the first three weeks.  Paul and Maree went on to say that not one of their mums abandoned the lambs when other farmers in the area were having terrible trouble in that regard.

So, all this having been said, if you are a breeder of animals – farmers, dogs, cats, horses or anything else, our Breeders pack is a very cost effective way of increasing your productivity.  For $500 you get our Beginners Kit, Extension Kit, Breeders Kit and 6 specifically chosen remedies to suit your needs.   Contact us at healwithease@bigpond.com or on 0755441711, to discuss your needs.

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Dream recovery for new horse

November 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Karen contacted us on 6 March 2009 with the following issues with her newly rehomed horse, Dream:

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Dream has a lesion on his neck which is approx. 6cm in length and 3-4 cm in height. At times scaly, sometimes little pimple/wart lumps come up inside the edges of the lesion (will send photo). Exp horse friend thinks looks suspiciously like sarcoid tumour. Haven’t had that verified by vet as I read that taking biopsy can make the sarcoid worse.

We have had Dream for just over a week now. He is in poor condition – thin, and has various problems like conjunctivitis, numerous cuts on hind legs and is bitten badly by black flies (our other 2 horses are not bothered by them). Dream has what looks like 50-100 flies on him most of the time, the other horses might have up to 20.

He also has one white foot affected by greasy heel.

I would like to build up his immune system and general health.

Together Karen & I have been working with Dream to achieve good health after such a terrible start.

The following email was received by us from Karen on 19 November 2009.  I has been a long haul, but finally Dream is feeling and looking a lot better.  In the end we ran a healing plan on Dream to get to the root cause of his ill health.

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I am very happy with his progress.  You can see his sarcoid today in one of the photos, it has shrunk a small amount and has a large eruption which is cracking and weeping but it definitely hasn’t worsened since we’ve had him.  In fact one of his sarcoids ( a small one on his other side) has completely gone.  There are a few pinhead sized growths on him, which I suspect are small sarcoids, but they are not growing.

The farrier is pleased with his barefoot management, although he does have thrush at the moment.  Overall though his feet are coming along nicely.

His coat looks good and has a nice sheen and his attitude and energy levels are very good.  In fact he is playing for the first time; rearing, bucking and running about with our mare (not with me- thank heavens!).  It is so pleasing to see him enjoying himself.

Many thanks for all your help, feel free to use these photos if you think they are of use.

Best wishes

Karen

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Natural Treatment Greasy Heel Remedies

September 7, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Sue first contacted us in March 2009 with the following email:

I am keen to find out about your natural remedies and in particular I saw the case study on “look at me now”. I am grappling with something similar on the 4 white feet of my horse and after many products and vet bills am still not winning ( some 10 weeks later). I was surprised with the immediate change based on the photos. I would be keen to know what was involved and what products I would need.

We discussed Audi’s immunisations and his general health, did up a consultation form and worked with his photos (below) to choose correct remedies.

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Audi has been well for the last month or so and Sue sent through the following testimonial today, 7 September 2009:

“ I was at my wits end and needing help. I had been given the Heal with Ease website by a friend who knew my dilemma and total frustration with what had been 6 months work with the vet and numerous interventions that had not resolved my horses issue. Not to mention the bill I was in the process of paying off. My issues appeared similar to the horse Cheroke, like a swamp fever or greasy heel. I tried everything with the vet, and after 6 months the vet advised they were out of ideas or options. The condition spread to all Audi’s feet, particularly in the white and would look a little better and then get worse. I was at my wits end and did n’t know what else to do!

Cathy turned out to be my saviour, we exchanged photos, and emails regularly, she provided quick detailed updates and plans to implement as we worked every day on the tonics, changing weekly, based on photos and a review. It was wonderful to have the advise and confidence from someone when I was so stressed about the condition of Audi’s feet and how long we had been trying to resolve this. He too was over me scrubbing his legs and touching raw wounds. How wonderful it was to deal with Cathy, the support and empathy and the encouragement. It was hard to believe as we worked with the oral administration… before my eyes Audi’s legs began to heal. Handling him was easy, and administering the tonic effortless… the stress in the process had disappeared.

It took about 6 weeks and the improvement was fabulous…. I had a happier, healthy horse and I was a happier, less stressed owner!

I cannot thank Cathy enough and the Heal with Ease tonics and Cathy’s personal consultation and advise. I highly recommend them and have them ready to go should the need arise.”

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If you are challenged by similar problems with your horse or anything else that you would like natural healing for, please contact us at healwithease@bigpond.com.

Purchase your Greasy Heel Remedy today for $50 for a 50ml bottle (approx. 350 doses per bottle), plus $5 postage.


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Saving Jude’s pup after vaccination

February 25, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Jude rang me early on 19 February 2009.  Two days prior she had vaccinated her six year old dog and now it was ill.  Jude related the illness to the vaccination because it commenced immediately following the injection.

The dogs symptoms were vomiting and diarrhoea.  She had been back to the vet and had been given medication which was immediately vomited back up when given.  The vet offered to put the dog on the drip overnight to rehydrate her.  At this point Jude was skeptical of the vet and concerned over the cost of an overnight stay at the vet.

A chance meeting with a Heal with Ease client at the Gym on 19 February bought Jude to us.  We consulted on what her friend had in her kit and luckily enough she had what Jude needed to save her dog.  We treated with the Vaccinosis remedy in the first instance, following with the Fever remedy to assist with rehydration after the two days of illness.

Jude rang me at 4pm that day to say that the vomiting had stopped, her dog was running around happily as if nothing had happened and was ravenously hungry.  A fast, easy healing on a very serious problem.

Some would say that Jude was unlucky with her dog and this vaccination problem.  We would say the opposite.  Jude knew what had caused her dogs problems and this made it much easier for us to treat. Many dogs have vaccinosis issues that no one ever relates to their vaccinations.

Daily we treat dogs with symptoms of vaccinosis – they aren’t all the same, they range from skin itches, digestive problems, anger issues, lethargy to generally being unwell.

Since the horse flu and the subsequent vaccination that went with that, we are seeing an increase in vaccinosis in horses in the form of sarcoids or warty type growths and unhealthy coats.

Generally our animals are quite toxic from the medications we give them, to their vaccinations, food and environment.  They are living on the edge with regard to health and it only takes a small thing to tip them over.  

If your animals are not as well as they should be or their skin is itchy and you can’t pick them back up, consider their toxin levels.  Heal with Ease offer consultations for serious illness, however with our Beginners Kit, Extension Kit and Vaccinosis remedy you can detox your animals regularly and treat little problems as they come up, easily and simply at home.  All our kits come with our support so if you are unsure what to do, just drop us an email and we will get back to you quickly.

From Heal with Ease we wish for you and your animals good health and happiness.

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Wow, look at me now!

February 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment

It was the week before Christmas. Business’s were closing people were gathering loved ones for the annual family get together and exchange of gifts was in count down. People were joyful and having parties.

Cherokee was not in the celebrating mood. For the previous 12 months Cherokee’s owners had been treating him for Mud Fever. While they would seem to get on top of it for small periods it would always come back. The week before Christmas 2008 it came back worse than ever.

It was mudfever in the white sock, however it was much more than that. It was almost like the mudfever had spread through his body and was now affecting his white blaze. The presenting photos showed a severe burn and lifting of the skin. It was by far the worst case we had seen. We took a deep breath, took the condition at face value and commenced treated of the symptoms we could see homeopathically.

When dealing with serious illness like this we have to be very considerate of the owners and the emotional stress they are under. It is okay for us to sit at a distance and get the progress update and photos. We give great consideration to the owners distress during these times. Sometimes these problems are life or death – not in that the illness will kill the animal, in that the owners have little choice but to put their special pet down if we can’t fix it.

The wonderful thing about homeopathy is that we don’t label problems. We treat on the symptoms and allow ourselves to be guided by the body signs and signals as to which remedy should be used next.

Interestingly enough this problem which looks so bad, and is painful for the horse, is very simple to treat homeopathically. The remedies required to achieve this healing are in our Beginners Kit and in most cases we can have the foot back to full health within 10-14 days. At Heal with Ease it is our business to provide natural healing solutions to all animal caretakers.

(Initial Photo’s sent of Cherokee’s Condition)

After three weeks of treatment with Heal with Ease products and special consultation, Cherokee was on the mend..

(Cherokee’s follow up photos sent to us on 5 January 2009)

All the healing was completed using internal homeopath remedies with a small amount of topically applied Homeopathic remedies. Cherokees owner was very happy with the ease and comfort of the treatment and was amazed at the speed of recovery. After 12 months persisting with conventional treatment and getting no joy, she could hardly believe her eyes, when after only 3 weeks it was completely healed.

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Tessa keeps getting colic

February 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Tessa’s owner contacted us the week before Christmas.  Tessa had colic, again.  During previous episodes, Tessa had been visited by the vet at a hefty cost to her owner.  This time she was treated homeopathically with Heal with Ease products that were on hand.

Following Tessa’s owner tells what happened:
I was impressed at how effective the homeopathic treatment was on Tessa’s colic.  I felt the treatment was so much  kinder on her system and her recovery was so much quicker than what I have previously observed using the veterinary treatment of pain killers and sedatives.  
 
Following is what I have observed in the treatment of Tessa using homopathy:
 
Tuesday morning Tessa had colic, within an hour of applying homeopathic treatment there was a slight improvement.  Throughout the day on Tuesday I checked on her condition and  gave her a few more doses of the homeopathic treatment as per Cathy’s advice and her condition slowly improved, it did not deteriorate. By Tuesday night  she was eating and looking pretty good. Wednesday morning she was fine and really alert as if nothing had ever happened.  
 

 

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Healing Cherokee Naturally

January 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment

On 6 October, almost 10 months after we initially started working with Cherokee we received this update from Cherokee’s owner, she says:

OMG! it feels like for ever since we last spoke, just updating cherokee’s condition, his leg is just great, his face needs a little more work, I’m getting because he is alway head first, in everything he does, his spirit has totally come back.

Here are the updated photos:

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Due to heavy rain, Cherokee had a relapse, quick treatment by Cherokees owner resulted in a slowing of the problem.  She contacted us again to see what other steps she should take.  We reviewed Cherokee in May 2009 and provided a different remedy that was very specific for loss of pigment.  Cherokee came good immediately.  The photos below were taken in June 2009 and show him really well and healthy.  Cherokees owner is very happy as you can see from her comments below.

Read on to find out all the details of Cherokees problems.

Cherokees owner wrote:

OMG!!! CATHY HAVE A LOOK AT CHEROKEE’S FACE, EVERY WEEK IT JUST KEEPS GETTING BETTER, WHAT DO YOU THINK…MY HEART IS SOARING, WE ARE SO ON THE RIGHT TRACK.

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Healing Cherokee with Heal with Ease Products

Cherokee’s owner contacted us on 14 December below is the original photos sent to us

Cherokees owner emailed saying “I can’t get his back leg to heal totally, it comes good for a couple of months then overnight he has an infection, maybe mud fever only in the white section, this has been occurring for the past 12 mths on/off. This is the worst its been…the vets say there is nothing they can do except give me $400 worth of product to bath his foot in and Drugs which have no effect on his foot, because it just keeps coming back. Now it is affecting his white blaze, it has never been this bad, whatever he stuck his head into on Friday has cause his face to peel on top of having a flared up nose.”

After three weeks of treatment these are Cherokees follow up photos sent to us on 5 January 2009.


Cherokees owner is very happy for the help we provided. All the healing was completed homeopathically – mostly internal remedies, some topically.

The following photo was received by us on 12 January as an update on the healing on Cherokees leg.

In total it cost Cherokee’s owner less than $300 in remedies from us. This came complete with our support over the Christmas period at no additional cost.

One of the most wonderful things about homeopathic medicines is that even without a name we can help most illnesses and injuries, working simply on the presenting symptoms and taking in the circumstances and environment as relative factors.

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Treating Horses with Homeopathy

August 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Jeannie purchased her Beginners Kit in March 2008. She has Wynmah Pony Stud at Tamborine Village with ten horses, two dogs and a cat.

Quote “Over the time of having this kit I have saved thousands of dollars on vet bills and been amazed at how quick and efficient the healing is. I could see an improvement in their health in every instance, in such a short time.

Eric and Cathy should be congratulated on how easy and simple the kits are to use. A must for every breeder and animal lover.

Being able to treat animals on the spot at first sign of symptoms has given us the ability to keep our horses healthy and fit and ready for the show ring.

The ability to be able to contact either Eric or Cathy has been a great source of comfort while I have been exploring these new tools at my disposal.”

In this time she has used her Beginners Kit to treat:

1. A stallion with severe Itch and a chest infection.

2. A foal with rain scald which turned into itch.

3. Maiden mare with colic was healed with the Fever remedy.
4. Young Gelding with more severe colic (not laying down) was treated with the Fever remedy and monitored for several hours until he came good. Fine next day after bowel motion.
5. A horse who cut his leg on wire was treated with the Accident remedy and the Infection remedy alternating over two days. Also at the same time Jeannie used sea mineral cream on the wound. Two weeks later it was completely healed up ‘as good as gold’. Jeannie could not believe how quick it had healed.
6. Four horses had conjunctivitis. Jeannie rinsed their eyes with natural honey (not heat treated) and warm water. Then treated with the Bites & Stings remedy. All came good.
7. Two of Jeannies two year old horses presented with diarrhoea. She treated them both with the Poison remedy and they came good within hours.
8. The neighbours saw their horse bitten by a Whip Snake. They immediately treated it with the Bites & Stings remedy. No symptoms emerged.
9. Jeannie’s dogs get itchy skin after flea treatment. She stops that quickly with the Bites & Stings remedy.
10. She also treats her old dog for arthritis with the Accident remedy from time to time to keep it under control.

Also with Consultations with us Jeannie has been able to heal:

1. A foal of good breeding was brought in from a drought affected area. The trip was long and she wasn’t good when she arrived. Initial thought was a protein deficiency, which we treated with the Abscess remedy. She was a little better from this treatment, however her coat was still not good. We then followed up with the Grief remedy. The result was a foul bowel motion and a full lifting of her coat. Five weeks later she was the winner at the South Qld open all breeds show, Gatton in the first week of May.

Before & 5 weeks later

2. Stallion with a severe cough. A remedy was created from a hair sample. The cough has improved dramatically and only returns when the ground is dusty.

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3. Young Gelding with undescended testicles was treated with the Grief remedy. A full drop occurred within a week to 10 days.

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Reproductive problems with animals

July 27, 2008 By Leave a Comment

As animal caretakers – dogs, sheep, cattle, alpacas and chickens we often see the reproductive cycle of our animals out of wack.

Before we started with homeopathics we really had no solution to these problems.  We would have bitches that had troubles with birthing and not cycle again and chickens that stopped laying.  Cattle that failed to be in calf when they should have been.r-smartie-in-full-coat

About eight years ago we discovered a homeopathic remedy that releases blockages related to the reproductive part of the body of an animal and allows them to cycle properly.  Our experience is that within six weeks of being given the remedy they will cycle.

Please note here that they won’t come into season to order, this remedy works only to reestablish a reproduction cycle that is out of balance.

Six weeks ago we treated two of our Border Collie bitches and our chickens with this remedy that is in our Breeders Kit.  One of the bitches is 11 years old and we wanted a last litter from her and she had failed to come into season properly in the last ten months.  The other is a bitch that had had a large litter last time she was joined and consequently had failed to cycle again.  The chooks had stopped laying properly over several months.

Six weeks later both bitches are almost ready to join and the daily egg count is up substantially.

We have also used this remedy to ensure our cattle come into season as they should, with in turn increases our production of calves for the year.

This remedy will work on all animals – stock, horses and domestic.

If you are having trouble with your animals like this, then contact us now and ask how our Healing Kits can help you.

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