Tigger Montague

Tigger Montague

Tigger Montague

Tigger Montague | BioStar USTigger Montague is BioStar’s owner and formulator.  She is an expert on equine nutrition and supplements, with over thirty years experience as a rider, researcher, formulator, and author of Whole Foods for Horses.

The daughter of a baker, and the granddaughter of a dairyman, she has inherited the same passions as her family about real food. With over 30 years experience in the equine and human supplement industry, Tigger knows nutrition from the synthetic side as well as the whole food side. She started BioStar in 2006 with formulas she created in her kitchen.  Before she started the company, she was an avid rider and competitor with eventing and show jumping, until she got hooked on dressage in the late 1980’s.  She has competed on horses she’s owned and trained all the way from training level to grand prix.

Tigger’s blog posts are a rich variety of fun-loving stories, profound philosophical musings, and scientific research.  Enjoy!

 

Assessing quality of food ingredients

Assessing Quality of Food Ingredients

We consumers are becoming more knowledgeable and savvy about reading labels, yet we are now faced with figuring out the ...
Wellington, Florida: A City of Horses

A City of Horses

From November until April, there is no other place in the world that has more horses per square inch than ...
Horse Topline

Building and Maintaining Topline

One of the most common issues with our horses is that of the topline. The muscles over the top of the ...
Managing Stress in Our Horses & Ourselves

Formulator’s Corner: The Equine Stress Factor

Stress is an emotional and physical pressure that animals and humans both experience. Horses and dogs, just like people, can ...
In Search of Emptiness

In Search of Emptiness

I know this is a strange title…why would I be searching for emptiness? The emptiness that I have been seeking ...
BioStar Ultra Hoof EQ hoof support supplement

Ultra Hoof EQ: Whole Food Hoof Support

Ultra Hoof EQ: A synergistic blend of specific hoof support nutrients bound to yeast for higher bioavailability, containing bovine colostrum ...
Handling Stress in Dogs, Horses and Humans

Stressing Me, Stressing You

Holidays seem to be the collective stress time: humans are stressed, and because our animals are so intuitive, they in ...
Green Me Up, Scotty: Transported by Green Juice

Green Me Up, Scotty

Recently I gave a whole food seminar at Old Barrington Farm in Illinois.  There I ran into my friend Mike ...
Camelina Fields for Camelina Oil | BioStar US

Gold Star EQ: Camelina Oil for Horses

Camelina (Camelina Sativa) is a plant native to Europe; it has been used for thousands of years as food for ...
Coconut oil: one of the top 5 foods for immune support

Top Five Immune Support Foods for Horses

We know that the health of the horse begins in the GI tract.  The gastrointestinal system plays a central role ...
GI Support for Dogs Starts Here!

Five Steps to Complete Canine GI Support

Keeping our dogs healthy begins with what we feed them.  After all, the gastrointestinal (GI) tract is the foundation of ...
Whole Food Diet for Horses by BioStar

Whole Food Diet for Horses: A Webinar Recap

Tigger Montague and BioStar US brought an informative and educational webinar to equestrians titled, The Whole Food Diet for Horses, ...
Finally, a Whole Food Hoof Supplement

Hoofin’ It: Designing a Whole Food Hoof Formula

My friend Shannon emailed me one day and asked, “Why doesn’t BioStar have a hoof supplement?” The plain and simple ...
Metal Toxicity and the Foods to Fight It

Metal Toxicity and the Foods That Fight It

With regard to metal toxicity and other ecological contaminations, Researcher Dr. Gregor Reid recently wrote in the Journal of the ...
What if all whole food supplements for dogs and horses started like this?

Introducing Toppers: Real Whole Food Enhancements for Mealtime

How do innovative whole food supplements for dogs and horses go from idea to reality? A little backstory is in ...
Feeding horses in 1856

What Horses Used to Eat: Feeding Horses in 1856

A veterinary surgeon named John Stewart, professor of veterinary medicine in Glasgow, Scotland, wrote a book that was published in ...
The wonders of healthy soil...

Down and Dirty: Healthy Soil for Healthy Us

Dirt. Horses and dogs love to roll in it, plants need to grow in it, and children like to make ...
Lamar Valley, Yellowstone

Where the Wild Things Are

Every August I head out to Montana to visit my mom, and spend at least one day in the Lamar ...