Meckyle Perry Trimming, Hoof Care and Farrier

04/02/2025

Very good read this one, really shows the impact of long term laminitis. It's something I often struggle to communicate to people why it's so important to get onto laminitis as early as possible as sometimes the damage can't be reversed.

17/12/2024

Just me, waiting on people to take their laminitic ponies off green grass.

06/12/2024

The molecule of life- glucose.

The lamellae that attach the horses capsule to his foot (like a biological boot) need glucose to maintain their “ superman Velcro” like attachment.

One foot has the same glucose consumption as the horses brain.

If I have have a horse a radioisotope labelled glucose infusion, abs popped him into a scanner, his feet and his brain would light up like lights on a Christmas tree!

How does glucose get to the lamellae? By the circulatory system, the blood.
The blood supply to the foot and its tissues is literally the balance between life of death, of tissues and ultimately the horse.

This is why the professional trimmers and farriers strive to get the blood in the right place by their trims and or appliances to the foot.

Interestingly that a high insulin is one of the causes of the breakdown of the laminar bond. It can be a one off high insulin or a long term constantly high insulin. Insulin is needed to get glucose into cells. But the lamellae use a different molecule to get the desperately needed glucose into their hungry cells. They dont use insulin. They use GLUT-1. A glucose transport molecule.

Once the glucose is inside the lamellar cells it gets trapped inside by phosphorylation- meaning a phosphate molecule gets attached to it and it prevents the glucose escaping the cells.

How amazing is this?

Ref- the illustrated horses foot by C Pollitt

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11/11/2024

Accurate

17/10/2024

Lovely moonlight for a short night ride

11/10/2024

Hey everyone, just got back from a few days away at the beach so have been a bit quiet on responding to people, will be catching up on stuff over the next couple of days now that we are back.

27/09/2024

Have to love this time of year, so many cute foals around, this one was very curious about her mums trim yesterday

27/08/2024

So true, where has the year gone.

26/08/2024

07/08/2024

Been a while since I've put up a post but there's been alot going on behind the scenes. Just got a delivery of these ground support pads to start trying out. Should be a great therapeutic option for alot of horses especially laminitis and thin soles ect. Watch this space for updates on how they go, will be trying them out on a few of our own horses in the next couple of weeks.

21/06/2024

Borrowed this from another person but wanted to post this here as I think this explains what vet checks really should be for. Few horses can actually pass a thorough vet check fully including horses currently competing, instead it's to be more aware of potential issues before you buy, not to skip the horse completely.

23/05/2024

Here's your opportunity folks to attend a hoof trimming clinic with The Barefoot Blacksmith.

It's a great learning opportunity and any of my clients who attend I'm happy to support follow up trims and guide you through maintenance trimming.

21/05/2024

Temu is always great for a few laughs, to manicure and clean horseshoes 🤣🤣

29/04/2024

22/04/2024

Just a few pics of some lovely feet from last week's trimming.

16/04/2024

When your trimming away and get a sense this new horse may not be the most normal trim this week. Good example of advanced seedy toe and how it will travel lateraly through the hoof wall and compromise the whole hoof capsule.

Edit: I did my usual trick and forgot to take photos of the finished trim but to treat i flushed with a idioine mix and then packed with zinc oxide to provide some drying and anti bacterial and owner is cleaning and treating daily. All 4 feet were effected and horse walked off sound. Normally I would only do max two feet at a time like this and treat the other 2 next time however the seedy toe had compromised the wall to such an extent that there was no weight bearing on the wall to begin with so I resected all 4 feet.

14/04/2024

Hey everyone, back from holidays now so thought I would share some photos and videos of our wonderful break away, what a fantastic little spot to spend a few days.

Still getting everything sorted from traveling but will start getting in touch with people over the next few days to start organizing trimming.