SC Equine Massage Services

24/04/2024

Lest we forget

27/03/2024

When I first met Tonka his Deep Cranial Pectoral was so trapped under his Scapular, now look at it!
So cool 🤩🤓

19/03/2024

🌟Available appointments🌟
Due to a few clients moving out of the area I have appointments available 😃
🌟Call or text 0400054647🌟

14/03/2024

Over the past few weeks I have been working diary’s with riders working out when exactly to restart body work after a winter spell. The most common comment is “can we push the treatment out a few more weeks as he/she will only be in for a week or so”
My response is - Coming in from time off is one of the most important times to get a treatment as muscles soreness leads to compensation, general muscle building requires exertion of the tissues to become stronger, this can hurt and encourage the horse to move in an altered functional position.
Most of my clients maintain body work through the spell just to keep a check on muscle health - not uncommon to find paddock injuries especially when a fit horse heads to the paddock!
*** photo of me 2 days after a Pilates session- soooo muscle sore! 😩 and the reason I decided to post this message!! There is no way I’m carrying anyone, wearing saddles, bits ect and I hurt!😅
Red light is amazing ☺️

06/03/2024

Oh I know this feeling!

I’m not sure this painting was ever meant to be named as, “Vet Bill Oil on Canvas”, but the feeling is completely real, especially for those weekend visits 🤦🏽‍♀️

31/01/2024

🌟🌟 Appointment availability Warragul and surrounds Tuesday 6th of February 🌟🌟

With my books being all but closed for the last 2 years I have limited availability due to change of work days and sale of horses. If your horse is needing a treatment send me a message or text 0400054647.
Be quick these appointments will fill quickly 😁
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24/01/2024

📣 Limited appointment availability 📣

🦄I hope everyone has had a fantastic start to the new year! Most of my regular clients know I will now be working Tuesdays and Thursdays.
Due to the change from Mondays I now have limited availability to take on new clients.
🦄Please PM me or text 0400054647

24/12/2023

✨Wishing all of my wonderful clients a very merry Christmas 🎄 and a safe and successful New Year 🥂 See you in 2024 💫

19/12/2023

🎁 🎄Some last minute gift vouchers are being picked up this afternoon. I always sell a lot this time of year but they’re available throughout the year as well.🎄🎁
Available for pickup till Christmas Eve 😁

18/12/2023

🎄🎄 Hi Everyone, I have a few extra opportunities for treatments from home this week and then I will be taking between Christmas and the New Year off 🎄🎄
🎁If you would like to get a Christmas treatment for your horse send me a message 0400054647 🎁

14/12/2023

Micky was full of yawns today! I managed to capture a few! Check the comments for cute videos of his mate Dillon.
❤️The clowns I get to meet 🤡🦄❤️

13/12/2023

Hi everyone, I can’t access my business page messenger 🤷🏻‍♀️ and I can see I have quite a few messages waiting for a reply.
If you have messaged me and are still waiting for a reply can you please text me on 0400054647.
Thanks 😁

01/12/2023

My pet peeve is a girth that strangles the horse!

🤓 Tip - Check the tightness of the girth by feeling at the back of the sternum on the mid-line as it’s tighter at the bottom than it is at the side of the rib cage.

When girthing up the horse it is important not to over tighten it. An over-tightened girth may pinch and bruise the muscles - in particular the pectorals. trapezius, serratus ventralis muscles and latissimus dorsi (see red areas in diagram bleow). An over tightened girth may also cause bruising of the ribs and the intercostal muscles between the ribs. It will also cause the saddle to put more pressure on the back muscles.

29/11/2023

🌟As most of you know I work/treat from home 3 days a week. I thought I would share my other business with you so you can follow my other page or just check out where a lot of my clients bring their horses for treatments.
🌟 If you’re after holiday or short stay Agistment send me a message 😁
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61551915405837&mibextid=LQQJ4d

Bluegrass Farm is a full care horse Agistment/Spelling farm in Catani, Victoria.

29/11/2023

🦄 I have availability this coming Monday in the Warragul area.
Pm or call -0400054647.

26/11/2023

I’m fairly sure my page has been hacked with someone “selling” SCEquine merchandise 😅 I don’t have any merchandise for sale!
I was actually tempted to press the link, the jumper looked good! 😂😂

04/11/2023

Did you know I rent my RedLight so you can continue treatments when I’m not there.

Science made simple!
What is the difference between red and blue light?

This is a whole lesson in itself! But to make it very simple:
💙 Blue is shorter waves 450nm - 495nm which carry more energy and have a higher frequency but are skin deep.
❤️ Red is 660nm - 750nm, longer waves and penetrates further.
Both work to promote cellular responses in the body but the red will attract the mitochondria in the cells to increase cellular energy, cell production and damage repair. Essentially restoring homeostasis. Blue is taken up very much on a surface level and targets things like sebaceous glands (why it's so popular in beauty therapy). It neutralises bacteria and reduces inflammation. Both pads also have NIR diodes which is nearInfrared and is even longer waves at 840nm penetrating deeper into the tissue to create a cascade of healing effects.

08/10/2023

🌟Congratulations to Hayle Dalton and Lily Stardust on winning the SC Equine Massage Services open Grade 2 Combined Training at Cannibal Creek pony club today.
Im told Lily Stardust is new to this level so it’s a tremendous result 🌟👏🏼🤩

06/10/2023

😅😂😅

I like Chinese food but I feel a line must be drawn here .

19/06/2023

🌟 2 appointments available this Friday the 23rd from my place.
🌟Call 0400054647🌟

07/06/2023

🌟I have 2 appointment times available this Friday if your horse needs a treatment!
🌟From my place only!
Text -0400054647

06/06/2023

🌟A very good “before massage” and “after massage” example of some very tight triceps!
This is a regular client, she was worked by someone who was not her usual rider yesterday (she is for sale and was tried yesterday) she didn’t enjoy her workout yesterday and it showed in her muscles today!

05/06/2023

Meet Duncan! The tallest horse on my books, standing at 18hh he makes my shoulders cry 😭 😂 we love Duncan the gentle giant can really jump!!
He has a massage every 6 weeks to keep his big frame happy and healthy! Prevention is better than cure ❤️🙌🏼

30/05/2023

🌟 Now offering treatments from my place on a Friday, I also have some availability for outside appointments.
PM or text 0400054647
🦄🙌🏼

19/05/2023

Wonder if Kmart sells little equine massage therapists to go with this set?? Something tells me at his horse is going to need a massage! 😅😂

A shopper has shared one of Kmart's products online, with one small detail sending people into stitches. Read more.

03/05/2023

🌟 I have a few one off appointment opportunities available next week.
AM and PM appointments Monday 8th - Bunyip - Warragul.
Message or text me - 0400054647

04/03/2023

🍁 Due to cancellation I have an appointment available this Monday (6th March) in the Warragul area.
🍁To book please text - 0400054647

🦄Happy Horsing 🦄

01/03/2023

🍁🍂The best time for a complete worm 🐛 clean out! But wait wait wait…. 🍁🍂
Please read… great simplified info for de worming our 🦄

Apparently it’s March... already!?
Our wonderful, tidy calendar says it’s autumn now too. And so here is my annual “It’s not actually autumn yet – don’t deworm your horses straight away!” spiel.

Autumn is the No. 1 time of year to worm your horses, because it ties in best with breaking the bot-fly life cycle. A bot fly’s lifecycle is 12 months, so treating just once a year will break that lifecycle (and overtime decrease bot fly populations). By mid-autumn/early winter, the entire population of bot flies will be inside your horse, which means you can target all the bots on your property with a single dosage of a boticide dewormer (ivermectin, abamectin, moxidectin).

If you deworm your horses too early in autumn, you will not be targeting all the bot flies as they are often present well into autumn, laying eggs on your horses coat. If you deworm on the 1st of March, there will be bot flies, and subsequently bot eggs and larvae that come after the treatment and will remain within your horse for the year.

Therefore, hold off on the autumn deworming a little longer, if your horses are in good condition. Wait until the nights cool down and the bot flies disappear before deworming – and make sure that the dewormer you purchase is active against bots, otherwise it will all be in vain. If your horses need to be treated now, do so, but make sure you target bot flies again in early winter.

So that’s my bot-fly spiel. Normally I write about strongyles (my favourite), and so I shall of course make a mention of them here too.

I always recommend a mid-late autumn deworming for ALL HORSES because it a) cleans out any bots and b) all horses really should have a strongyle clean out once a year as well. I may be against deworming for the sake of deworming, however that is only if you are doing it 3 or 4 or more times a year.

Strongyles can have a lifecycle of as little as 6 weeks. In addition, at any one point, about 90% of the strongyle population is living on the pasture, not in the horse. Therefore, the concept of using chemical dewormers inside the horse to break the lifecycle of strongyles would not work. At all. So, we chose our annual deworming-clean-out to line up with as many other parasites as possible.

All boticide dewormers are also effective against strongyles so deworming in autumn is a 2 for 1 type deal. You should also consider using a dewormer that also contains praziquantel to treat for tapeworms to get a complete clean out, just in case tapeworms are present. If your horses are only being treated once a year, it is good to do as complete a treatment as possible.

Lastly… wait, second lastly.. this is a topic to complex to get into here, but: this time of year is key for larval cyathostomins, where encysted larvae have mass emergences from the intestine wall, in response to changes in weather (eg in VIC as it cools and becomes wetter again). Deworming and removing adult populations of worms can act as a trigger for larval re-emergence, which is also why I often baulk at deworming horses now. The larvae may slowly re-emerge coming into the cooler weather and treating in mid-late autumn may be a safer bet to remove adults and emerged larvae. The research on this is sketchy as best, however these are patterns shown in cattle and hypothetically should translate over into horses.
And lastly (pat on the back for reading this far): just because I’m recommending deworming all horses does not mean I am not recommending FECs in autumn. A FEC will tell you important things about your horses health, and pick up anything odd that may be happening (eg tapeworm you didn’t know about). It will also allow you to test drug efficacy. Autumn should be a key time for everyone to do a FECRT (faecal egg count reduction test), where you get FECs done before and after deworming to make sure that it worked. If you only deworm once a year, then you’ve only got one chance for a FECRT, and you cannot, I repeat, you CANNOT do a FECRT without a FEC before to compare to.

If you’d like to organise FECs and FECRTs for your horses this autumn, check out the website (link on the FB page) for postal submission and drop off points/events.

27/01/2023

🐴 Hi Everyone, I hope you’ve all had a fabulous start to the new year!
Just a quick note to say my appointment availability is extremely limited.
💫If I’m yet to see you this year just a reminder that my fees have gone up as of January 1st.
Feel free you give me a buzz if you didn’t realise I’ve had a price rise.
🐴 Happy Riding 🐴

14/01/2023

🌟🌟For anyone thinking of booking in 🌟🌟
I have very limited appointments available as I’m nearly closed books!!!
This means you will have to wait until someone drops their regular booking to be able to get an appointment! 🫣