Equine Vitality by Britta Beek

09/09/2024

Happy and healthy horses 🐎

06/09/2024

Finally after my last surgery am
Feeling more me again 🥰back in saddle 🥰of course bitless and barefoot 🥰

03/09/2024

Amazing how soon our boys all decided to live in a happy herd together … 🥰😎

01/09/2024

Amazing after just one day 😎we decided to leave them out together in the big field 🥰adorable they have acres to run but they decide to just stand by each other 🥰

31/08/2024

Amazing first intro of all 3 - don’t think we need them separated for long 🥰

31/08/2024

Sunnys new paradise 🥰🥰🥰with little welcoming committee 🤣

27/08/2024

For me it is the best feeling when u come back from sickness and get your horse training again 🥰😘

25/08/2024

Warum ist es so wichtig von den Reitervereinigungen ein Pferd / Pony zu verletzen ? Sollte nicht immer ! die Gesundheit und das Wohlbefinden im Vorrang stehen?

Hier sehr schön dargestellt

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23/08/2024

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⚠️Strong words coming… suck it up Equine World.

Vets, farriers, barefoot trimmers, and even research scientists have been misled for too long - and are therefore misleading others.

Rotation of P3 (coffin bone) is ALWAYS human error - every single time.

There's no such thing as P3 "rotating" or "sinking" within the hoof capsule. NO SUCH THING.

Typical vet statement 👉“You must box rest your horse or P3 will come through the sole.”

RUBBISH. If you (vet) had been taught correct hoof care you’d see how ridiculous that statement was.

More utter poppy c**k 👉 “A heart bar shoe can support the frog and P3 to prevent it from sinking” - this is a myth.

It ‘supports’ nothing. Absolutely NOTHING.

Stop nailing (or glueing) them onto already compromised hoof capsules (that you or your colleague screwed up in the first instance).

Equine world irony 👉 Hang on, how about a clog or two, rockering it would be even better - how about resecting the hoof wall, yeah, great that’ll fix it - set the shoe back - increase break over - stop lever forces (everyone ignore the heels).

Sigh. 😔

Every single time you see P3 in the wrong positon in the hoof capsule - it’s INCORRECT TRIMMING that caused it.

You see the red lines on this x-ray?

That’s where the hoof capsule should be.

All that material left at the heel and removed at the toe? Your equine ‘pros’ did that.

Millions of dollars spent on laminitis research and they haven’t even spotted the most simplest of causes.

Vets, farriers, barefoot trimmers - they’re all doing it.

It’s not laminitis - it never was - p3 rotation is human error.

You, the horse owners, are being duped to believe that X-rays like this are a dreadful act of cruel nature.

That the laminae got inflamed, fell apart and left P3 dangling about in the hoof capsule, rotating and sinking at will.

That’s not true.

P3 got like this because humans caused it. The HUMAN HAND with their rasps and nippers, and mythical ideas.

Chopping off toes endlessly, thinning soles, disorienting hoof capsules - this is all improper unnatural hoof care.

HM have a saying 👉 “Do unnatural things, and expect unnatural things to happen”.

Poor P3 - poor, poor P3. The most humungous great big RED HERRING. Forget P3. Look at the HOOF CAPSULE.

P3 is busy doing nothing inside that hoof capsule, minding its own business just waiting for someone who knows how to read a hoof capsule to keep it in balance.

Vet schools, you should hang your heads in shame for failing to teach your students even the most basic principles of hoof care. You know you don’t - we know you don’t - and this is a worldwide problem.

Typical vet statement (with no prior knowledge of hoof care): “remove more toe”

LOOK AT THE X-RAY - that’s where your “remove more toe” got this poor pony.

You should have said “get those heels down, leave that poor toe alone, stop thinning the sole!”

Farrier and barefoot schools, stop listening to bogus science and stop teaching your students to chop off toes.

Every time you do that, you lose the balance point, take off too much sole, cause growth rates to go into chaos, leave too much heel, and rotate P3.

Then you X-ray and shout - L-A-M-I-N-I-T-I-S

STOP IT NOW.

This isn’t just misguided - it’s maiming, laming, and killing horses.

It’s embarrassing, it’s wrong, and it has to end. We are SO DAMN tired of seeing this happen, and having to correct it.

And sometimes we’re just too bloody late.

Equine world you should be saying ‘My Bad’ 😑



HM.

p.s. if your horse is being diagnosed with rotation, get into our rehab group now and learn how to fix it before it’s too late: The Phoenix Way: Path 2 Hoof Health

p.p.s. these videos on this YouTube channel are TOTALLY FREE - educate yourself: Lindsay Setchell Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/

16/08/2024

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16/08/2024

Barefoot- it is a choice by nature ☀️🥰

Horses are not born with irons and for me it is always natures choice

It doesn’t really matter where and what you do with barefoot horses

Nature made them great for all terrain and there’s no excuse to use shoes to damage horses laminae with the nails of those shoes

The weight of this shoes vary which can have immense impact on their ability to move naturally.

13/08/2024

See and handle the signs 😎✅

13/08/2024

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Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication 😉

Less is always more.

When in doubt, take all of the unnecessary equipment away and strip it back to basics…

Good timing and skill will never go out of fashion 😉

12/08/2024

Pessoa training needs to be perfectly fitted every inch goes wrong can cause tension / eventually damage to entire muscles

⭐ Circling long and low?

⭐ What are the benefits?

👉 Working a horse long and low on a circle only helps the horse’s training if it’s for a short period of time.

👉 Why’s this?
Long and low helps the horse relax his long back muscles and contract his stomach muscles.

👉 It can also help the horse to master bending to the left and to the right, IF he knows what to do with his body.

Beyond this it is NOT helpful. The photo below shows the horse is lifting his hindquarters and his front legs are taking most of the weight.

For the rest of this article please go to the post at https://bitlesshorsetrainingproject.com/2024/08/08/circling-long-and-low/

12/08/2024

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10/08/2024

05/08/2024

Call me endlessly romantic 🥰but when I watch a western , I wonder when my father would be still alive if he would said those kinda words to my man 😎

24/07/2024

Yessss - finally arrived my business cards /leaflets - let’s get them to the people then ❤️❤️❤️❤️