Metta Equus

07/31/2024

Registration fees cover all three days of lectures, the Friday night Meet and Greet dinner, and lunch both Friday and Saturday. Snacks will be provided on Sunday but lunch will be on your own after the conference wraps up. Sign up at https://progressivehoofcare.org/conference.

03/21/2024

À venir dans la région de Québec!

A venir à notre écurie !
Les inscriptions sont ouvertes, soit directement en ligne sur Mettaequus soit contactez Solenne Wagner 😊

03/04/2024

Early bird registration is officially open for our bi-annual conference! 🥳

⭐️ Early Bird registration ends AUGUST 1.⭐️
Sign up at https://progressivehoofcare.org/conference

02/05/2024

My latest composite shoe blog for easycare!

Did you know there are many ways you can customize your EasyShoes? Learn how Metta Equus modifies the EasyShoe 3D to best suit the needs of her client's horses.

https://blog.easycareinc.com/3-ways-to-modify-the-easyshoe-3d/

11/29/2023

Every day 💜💜

🙌 We are all in this for the same reasons so let's support, grow and learn from each other 🫶

10/31/2023

What a weekend! Thank you to everyone who made the trip! I'll post more photos this week!

10/18/2023

Read about PHCP mentor, clinician, and practitioner Maia Chaput.

10/18/2023

C'est avec grand plaisir que nous avons présenté notre clinique “Les Fondements pour des sabots sains" le week-end dernier à Colombier, Québec. Nous avons reçu un accueil chaleureux de la part de nos hôtes Ria Rondenbosch et Nick Miller, qui nous connaissaient depuis une précédente clinique que nous avions présentée ici en 2017. Nous avons rencontré un excellent groupe d'étudiants et de chevaux, et nous avons fait de beaux souvenirs. Comme toujours, grâce aux commentaires de nos étudiants, nous rentrons à la maison avec encore plus d'idées sur la façon de faire évoluer le contenu de nos cours pour rendre l'expérience d'apprentissage encore meilleure. Travailler en tête-à-tête avec les étudiants est une expérience inestimable, non seulement pour les étudiants, mais aussi pour nous. Nous ferons certainement un autre voyage sur la côte nord à l'avenir.

It was a great pleasure to present our clinic; "the foundations of Soundness" this past weekend in Colombier, Quebec. We received a warm welcome from our hosts Ria and Nick, who knew us from a previous clinic we'd presented here in 2017. We met an excellent group of students and horses, and made some great memories. As always, thanks to feedback from our students, we come home with even more ideas how to evolve our course content to make the learning experience even better. Working one on one with students is a priceless experience, not only for the students, but for us as well. We will definitely be making another trip to the Côte Nord in the future.

09/08/2023

Carl Hester on why many of his horses, including some competing at the European Dressage Championships, live mostly out in the field

08/21/2023

💜🐴💜

Glue-on shoes are a great alternative for horses who need that extra protection.
Belle is feeling great in the easyShoe 3D 💅

07/27/2023

Claudia Iannuccilli and I have been testing out the new Easy Shoe 3D! I had a great time tagging along to get some fun photos of her horse Ghost in action. Click on the link to read the full article.

Thank you Derek Poupard and Garrett Ford for bringing this innovative concept to life!

07/07/2023

07/01/2023

Unfortunately, by the time many owners find us, their equines have already experienced laminitis. Since 80-90% of all laminitis cases are a result of the horse, donkey, or mule having uncontrolled EMS (Equine Metabolic Syndrome) and/or PPID (Equine Cushing's Disease), our goal is to help owners and equine professionals get the correct diagnosis and initiate treatment BEFORE a laminitic event. Here's what you need to know: https://bit.ly/2A36ERq For more details, click here to view our short film: Getting the Correct Diagnosis: https://bit.ly/2BSdEhK

05/23/2023

Hi friends!

I’m teaching a complete intro to hoofcare and trimming clinic the weekend of June 9th-11th here in Rigaud. This is one of the first required steps for PHCP certification, but the clinic is also open to the public! Registration is through this link on the PHCP website.

The first day will be an intro to anatomy through dissection, day two will focus on trimming, and day three focuses on hoof protection options including practice with booting and casting.

This clinic will be hands on, in a fun, relaxed learning environment. I hope you can make it!

Follow the link to register

This three day clinic fulfills the PHCP beginning clinic requirement. Learn distal limb anatomy through exploration, trimming and dissection of cadaver hooves, along with shoe removal, hoof protect…

04/15/2023

From the original post:

“You cannot fairly talk about going bare without deeply discussing and evaluating diet and movement.
This barefoot popularity is cool, but concerning. Often like any fad, the crucial details are often over looked. Some horses will be successful with it, but my definition of a sound, healthy barefoot horse is not one that has to walk to the show arena or on any hard surface with a boot on. Usually they do temporarily, especially during a transition, but that is not the ultimate goal. “

Thank you for writing this Lacy Stormes Barefoot Show Jumping USA my thoughts exactly.

The British showjumping legend is following some of the world’s top riders of the moment by removing shoes from some of his up-and-coming horses

04/15/2023

Indigenous oral histories and archaeological evidence are rewriting the story of how horses came to the American West.

03/29/2023

Have you ever just come to the abrupt realization that you don't see anything the same anymore?

The two year old that you once would have approved of starting under saddle now looks like an incredibly immature baby that you can't imagine asking to carry a load.

Physical issues that lead to training and performance issues you no longer view as the problem but perhaps the solution to the actual problem.

All of the things you would have considered behavioral issues you can now see as the balance issues that they are. You no longer want to address the behavior but instead the reason for the behavior.

You are no longer fooled by words. Anyone can say anything about their training and approach...but the horse will tell you a lot about whether the words match the action, if you're educated enough to see it. Some things are debatable...other things definitely aren't.

You now recognize that you are a nervous system and your horse is a nervous system...and that the priority is to keep you upright and alive. That matters, A LOT.

You recognize that developing a horse is an endeavor that takes years. YEARS. Years of a lot of time and a lot of commitment. There's truly no substitute.

You also realize that getting here has meant admitting that there were times when you were wrong. That there were times when you did harm with the best of your intentions. That you had to walk away from circles of people whose beliefs and approach no longer lined up with what you now know...or maybe they walked away from you? Either way, it's hard to stand alone sometimes.

You realize you've had to become a beginner a thousand times over...and you'll continue to find yourself in that spot a thousand more times in the future, plus some. Maybe even at some point today.

You realize that even when it feels like you haven't grown at all...you actually have. That growth is something to be proud of, no matter where you're at on your journey.

- Terra

03/22/2023

Free nutrition webinar coming up!

This free webinar will demystify mineral balancing and share information based on years of research and diet evaluations performed by Mad Barn Inc.

03/17/2023

Je suis honoré de présenter ce stage aux professionnels du monde équin. Mon objectif est d'offrir une expérience pratique et collaborative, et de laisser les découvertes que nous faisons à travers les dissections guider l'expérience d'apprentissage.

Formation ouverte aux professionnels et apprentis (mentionner à l'inscription pour bénéficier du rabais)
pour vous inscrire contactez Solenne Wagner 581 988 1977
ou Maia Chaput 579 490 4904

03/08/2023

(english follows) À l'occasion de la Journée internationale de la femme, j'aimerais remercier tout spécialement un groupe de mes collègues des soins aux sabots qui me sont très précieux. Je serai éternellement reconnaissante de votre soutien et de votre amitié. Nous dirigeons chacun notre propre entreprise dans la même région. Notre petite famille professionnelle s'agrandit d'année en année et je suis très fière de ce que nous réalisons tous, à la fois individuellement et en groupe, avec des objectifs similaires. Cela montre à quel point travailler ensemble dans les coulisses et se soutenir mutuellement est plus puissant que de travailler seul💜. Il existe un groupe plus large qui s'étend loin de notre région, et en dehors de notre profession spécifique, et qui comprend tant de femmes extraordinaires qu'il m'est impossible de vous nommer toutes, mais vous savez qui vous êtes !!

In celebration of International Women’s day, I would like to give a special shout-out to a group of my local hoof care colleagues who are very near and dear to my heart. I will be eternally grateful to you for your support and friendship. We each run our own businesses in the same area. Our little work family grows bigger every year and I am so proud of what we are all achieving both independently and as a group with similar goals. It just goes to show how working together behind the scenes and supporting each other is more powerful than going it alone💜. Of course there is a bigger group that extends well beyond our local area, and includes so many amazing women there is no way I can name you all, but you know who you are!
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