Kas Edney Hoof-Care Practitioner

20/12/2024

🔥🔥🔥If anyone is needing to evacuate horses from the major fire currently taking place in the Grampians please do not hesitate to call me “Grace 0488416669” I’m located “CASTERTON”

I have paddocks at the ready and am available to care for your horses while you deal with everything else.

And please if you are not in a position to evacuate your horses and you do have to leave them behind please remove all rugs, halters and fly masks these can melt even from radiant heat that can be many kms in front of the actual fire front! Spray your contact details large enough to read from a distance in a bright colour on BOTH sides for best chance of identification when it’s safe.
Have current clear photos for identification later also.

Please don’t let them out onto roads, open all internal fencing by all means. Letting them out roads is not a good idea, emergency services are still using these roads and often have extremely low visibility

Ensure they have ample water for many many days If your not being able to come back, roads often take a long time to re open due to trees falling, even with our best efforts we cannot get roads open for you to get back to any stock! And be aware pumps and water pipes/ plastic troughs can melt even if the fire front doesn’t reach you!

This is one of the worst starts to a fire season I have seen in my short 10 years as a firefighter, even if you are not currently affected there is a strong chance you could be down the track!

EVACUATE EARLY! No one will care if you jump the gun and get your animals somewhere safe early!

And please practice loading your animals well in advance to an emergency situation! The rush can make it even harder so you don’t want your first time to be when you have fire breathing down your neck!

If you have got this far thank you, and please be safe this summer!

Grace
View of the Grampians all the way from Casterton!

20/12/2024

Mobile Vet Services - Equine | Livestock | Export
Family owned and operated.
Progressive care from a fully equipped ute, to your property, for all your livestock and equine needs.
South East SA, Western VIC and beyond.

13/12/2024

Check out these super models 💅
Recently transitioned these ponies out of shoes and into SCOOT BOOTS.
I’m not anti shoes at all, they def have their place, but these ponies have great feet and just need something to protect their little hooves while covering the kms in harness.
The beauty of scoot boots, is they can then be bare foot whenever they’re not being worked, & the hoof functions naturally.
Thankyou to Sophie Collective Equine Therapies for all her help with getting these kids all fitted up.

I’ll soon have a fit kit for anyone interested in getting their horse/pony fitted.
They’re so convenient.
I’ve trialled so many other boots over the years, and I always come back to scoot boots.

Kat & Court, Thankyou 🫶🏽🔅

30/11/2024

Desensitisation techniques will not work if the basic reason for the horse's neophobia or other behaviour issue is to do with deficits in basic needs.

While many behaviour problems can be alleviated by desensitising the horse to the stimulus he finds offensive , it is very important to recognise that in many cases, horses express fearful behaviours to certain stimuli as symptoms of deeper problems in their mental security.

It is important to consider that a predisposition for fearful behaviour can be innate or it may be acquired through past fearful experiences of escape and avoidance learning.

The biggest considerations for the horse's mental security undoubtedly lies in satisfying their fundamental needs for socialisation, movement, agency and foraging, as well avoiding the potential for pain or confusion that can arise from the delivery of the cues and aids by the rider.

Poor socialisation in horses can lead to several behavioural problems that affect both their welfare and handling safety. When horses lack adequate social experiences, particularly during their developmental years, they often develop maladaptive behaviors.

Adapted from Modern Horse Training Volume 2 by Andrew N McLean
This exciting new publication is now available for purchase at our webshop - www.esi-education.com

28/11/2024

22/11/2024

Having just posted this on another timeline I thought I’d post it here too

These are the proportions the horse is born with and in this specimen the eponychium is still present

From here given sufficient movement over varied surfaces and an appropriate diet, the foot should be able to evolve to the same base parameters in its mature state

These foundations are natures true parameters and it’s worth keeping in mind their start point

17/11/2024

“We need to start reducing the heel height on that boxy foot”

If you take the feet in isolation I’d agree
If we consider the whole horse I would disagree

These high - low horses are busy trying to compensate for what they have going on both skeletally and with soft tissue

There always (IMO) needs to be a combined approach - skilled bodywork, orthotic intervention if needed and targeted exercise

My personal order of information and influence surrounding this

Dr Kerry Ridgway
Farrier Moses Gonzales
Farrier Jim Crew of Healthy Stride
And of late some amazing nerve release from equine physio Yasmine Stuart

15/10/2024

25/09/2024

Amazing