Apple Cider Vinegar is a handy thing to have in your tack room. Here are a few helpful tips if you are a horse owner.
1. Apple Cider Vinegar is a great way of relieving your horse from the misery of flies and ticks. It can be mixed with water or black tea ( 1 part ACV to 2 parts water) and popped in a spray bottle. Simply spray your horse once a day with the mixture being very careful around the eye area. Not only will this repel flies and ticks, it also leaves your horses coat beautifully soft and shiny. Another tip is to spray the stable to rid it of flies.
2. All the health benefits know about Apple Cider Vinegar in humans are true of horses. ACV can help stiff joints, skin disorders, help toughen hooves....the list is endless. To give your horse all these health benefits couldn't be easier. Simply add a 1/4 cup every day to their feed. Most horses seem to love the taste.
Apple Cider Vinegar and Horses go well together. It's cheap, it's free from chemicals and if your horse could thank you he would!
The Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar are well known. Here are a few ways I put ACV to good use.
1. As a health tonic for all the family. We all have 2 teaspoonful of Apple Cider Vinegar dissolved in a glass of water at least once a day.
2.As a treatment for arthritis, hypertension, reflux, warts, acne and dandruff. ACV also has a large following of people who maintain that it helps with weight loss.
3. Apple Cider Vinegar is also useful with pets. A teaspoonful in either their food or water gives your pet all the health benefits the rest of the family have. A great tip-it also prevents your dogs urine from burning the lawn!
Just a few ways to show you the Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar.
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Organic Apple Cider Vinegar is a great health tonic for dogs. Listed below are a few ways Organic ACV can help you out as a dog owner.
1. Pest Fighter- a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar in your dogs water bowl will keep then free of fleas and ticks. A teaspoon is the correct doe for a 20kg dog.
2. Is Your Dog’s Urine Burning the Lawn?- Yellow spots on the lawn are normally caused by urine.Nitrogen waste products are the result of protein breakdown through normal bodily processes, therefore the nitrogen in the urine causes the lawn spots. We all know that Nitrogen is a great fertiliser but not in these doses! That is why the outside of the green spot is quite lush. A dose of one teaspoon to one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar (depending on the size of the dog) per day will neutralise the Nitrogen and should solve the problem. The apple cider vinegar can be added to the dog's water or put directly on his food.
3. Puppy accidents-If your puppy is still being house trained here is a great tip for cleaning up 'accidents' from your carpet. Colour Test a small inconspicuous piece of your carpet first. Then simply sprinkle some Apple Cider Vinegar over the accident then after a few minutes simply blot with a damp cloth. An even better result can be achieved by using ordinary distilled white vinegar.
So, there you have it. The best tips for Organic Cider Vinegar for Dogs.
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We all want beautiful soft shiny healthy hair and the last thing we want is dandruff spoiling it! My eldest son has always had dandruff and very dry hair and we have found that Apple cider vinegar is amazing at treating his dandruff.
The high acid content and enzymes contained in cider vinegar kill off the bacteria on the scalp that can cause dandruff and itching. The cider vinegar also removes any shampoo residue and leaves your hair beautifully soft and shiny. Here's how to do it!
Mix half a cup of cider vinegar in a pint of warm water. After shampooing hair, rinse thoroughly with the cider vinegar mixture. massage into scalp then leave on hair for a few minutes. Rinse with cool water and see how gorgeous your hair looks!
As a foot note I also use cider vinegar as a treatment for dandruff for my dog!!
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While excellent Apple cider vinegar is widely available there is something very satisfying about making your very own homemade cider vinegar.
This is the recipe I use . Before you start you must take these two factors into consideration. Firstly, temperature. The fermenting vinegar must be kept between 60 and 80 degrees ( f). If the temperature is lower then the vinegar will be of much poorer quality and if the temperature is higher it interferes with the formation of ' mother of vinegar' which is the base that forms on fermenting wine that has gone bad.
Secondly, oxygen. This is necessary and is spread thro' the mixture by stirring daily and the use of a porous lid, such as cheesecloth, to allow the circulation of air.
Do not use a metal container when making or storing vinegar as the vinegar will corrode the metal.
There are four main steps in making cider vinegar.
1. Making Cider
Cider is made from autumn apples as these have the highest quantity of sugar. Crush the apples to produce a pulp the n strain this thro' a cheesecloth to produce a nice clear liquid. Adding yeast is not essential but will speed up the process of fermentation. These can be bought in chemists or wine making shops. Please note that bread yeasts should not be used. Quantities and instructions will come with the yeast.
2. Making the alcohol and acetic acid
Pour the cider into a container but only fill to three quarter capacity. place a porous lid on and stir daily. Fermentation will take up to three or four weeks and you will smell a strong vinegar smell when it is complete.
3. Filtering
This can be done through any type of filter but I tend to use coffee filters as they are cheap and disposable. This removes the mother of vinegar preventing any further fermentation.
4. Storing your vinegar.
Your vinegar is now ready to be stored in a capped container. It can be stored for many months if pasteurised. To do this heat the vinegar and then pour into sterilized bottles or jars. The temperature of the vinegar should reach about 140 (F) and you can use a cooking thermometer to check this-carefully of course!!
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Apple Cider Vinegar for Dogs
It should come as no great surprise to read that Apple Cider Vinegar can also benefit pets - particularly dogs, although many vets and farmers recommend it for horses too.
Cider vinegar for dogs helps because the Apple Cider Vinegar contains a wide range of minerals and other nutrients substances.
Cider vinegar will provide a dog with important minerals, such as potassium, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, chlorine, phosphorus, iron, silicon and other trace minerals.
Generally its best to add the vinegar to the dogs food - avoid putting it in the water bowl.
The dosage is 1 teaspoonful for small dogs and 1 tablespoon for medium sized or large dogs.
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