Dare to Go Bare, Hoof Rehabilitation and Barefoot Livery Centre

Dare to Go Bare, Hoof Rehabilitation and Barefoot Livery Centre A unique dedicated Barefoot facility run by Equine Podiatrist Sally Bell DEP. Offering short - long term Hoof Rehabilitation and Permanent livery.
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I am delighted to be hosting this at the yard - Charmaine started my slightly ‘alternative’ journey with Tod with severa...
20/12/2023

I am delighted to be hosting this at the yard - Charmaine started my slightly ‘alternative’ journey with Tod with several mind blowing communications which put us both on a very different path and has led me to where I am today on a lot of levels - some of you know the story….🤯 be prepared to listen…..

🤩I'm excited to let be able to let you know about this animal communication workshop I'm offering next year. It's going to be a day of being together, learning with each other and the horses, and maybe Spike the dog too.
🐴We'll be exploring different ways guiding our own bodies into a still place, enabling us to be ready to listen with the animals and then looking at the different ways animals communicate with us and how we all receive information differently so you can gain deeper insights and understandings into your own personally unique ways of communicating with others.

🐶There is more info on the website and please feel free to let your friends know........ https://www.amazingmind.co.uk/workshops-and-events.html

Pop along and say hello to some of my colleagues in the EPAUK this weekend if you’re here….
23/11/2023

Pop along and say hello to some of my colleagues in the EPAUK this weekend if you’re here….

*** EXHIBITOR ANNOUNCEMENT ***

Equine Podiatry is a shoeless hoof care system that has changed the lives of countless horses. We are so excited to have some of the highly trained specialists from The Equine Podiatry Association joining us at Horsemanship Showcase - The Horsemanship Event of The Year to talk about the work they do and how using an EP might change your horses feet!

31/10/2023
So this is a huge opportunity for me, I only wish it wasn’t under such tragic circumstances. I will doMy best to make Ja...
28/08/2023

So this is a huge opportunity for me, I only wish it wasn’t under such tragic circumstances. I will do
My best to make Jayne proud 💔

So it's time to introduce the first of the new tutors joining us. Actually, this first one is not really a new tutor as she's been helping with the course for quite a few years but she will be taking a bigger role from now on.

Sally Bell was one of the first intake of students EPT taught, starting in 2008 and qualifying in 2010. Like many EPs, she came to us after her horse developed foot problems that traditional approaches couldn't fix. She has worked as a full time EP since then as well as running a barefoot rehab and livery yard. Prior to training with us she was a freelance riding instructor and rider, qualified to BHSAI level, and hence has a wealth of teaching experience as well as loads of experience with complex equine podiatry cases.

Starting this September, Sally will be taking a bigger role within EPT, acting as a general course tutor and running practical courses such as Trim 2 and the Pathologies practical as well as assisting on the Assessment & Gait Analysis and Farriery courses. Sally will also be taking on a significant amount of assignment marking. Sally will continue to act as a final exam assessor but will additionally be taking on joint responsibility for Internal Quality Assurance along with Richard.

16/07/2023

It is with very great sadness that we have to announce that one of our two founders, Jayne Hunt, has died following a traffic accident whilst riding her much-loved horse, Moomin. Jayne was a founder member of the Equine Podiatry Association in 2006, acted as the EPA’s chairperson for many years and co-founded Equine Podiatry Training Ltd in 2008.

Jayne made a massive contribution both to the creation of the profession of equine podiatrist and to the establishment of nationally recognised standards for our profession. As a tutor at EPT, she excelled at providing a supportive atmosphere for students. Her catch phrases of ‘it depends’ and ‘it’ll all be fine’ will be repeated by equine podiatrists for many years to come.

Her loss leaves a huge hole in our profession that will be hard to fill. We have not just lost a key colleague but a good friend too. We are all clear that Jayne would have wanted her work to carry on unhindered and, in that spirit, with the support of the EPA membership, EPT will regroup and continue to train the next generation of equine podiatrists.

Our thoughts are with Jayne’s family at this time.

There’s recently been a bit of a Hoo-haa on the Barefoot Horse Magazine Page, mostly but not exclusively about breakover...
16/05/2022

There’s recently been a bit of a Hoo-haa on the Barefoot Horse Magazine Page, mostly but not exclusively about breakover and toes…., so I thought I’d share this excellent rationale from one of my fab colleagues - it’s a bit of a read but worth it!

I have been asked this weekend why some trimmers leave long toes on laminitic ponies and what the methodology is behind this approach.

The truth is, i don’t do that myself, i don’t personally know anybody who does, but apparently there are trimmers out there who do. I don’t understand the logic, and can find no published research papers or studies to support or explain this methodology. Not saying it isn’t out there, but i searched for several hours today and couldn’t find anything. If this paper exists and you have a copy i’d be grateful for a link.

What i DID find, however was a plethora of university and vet studies, peer reviews, articles, lectures and books that reference the importance of bringing the breakover back on a laminitic foot. All over the planet - vets, farriers, equine podiatrists, universities, research centres, and world leading experts talk about the biomechanics of breakover, because it doesn’t just affect the toe, it can also impact bone alignment, the position of the navicular bone, and the deep digital flexor tendon etc. There is a much bigger picture surrounding breakover, whether the hoof is laminitic or not.

I was trained to study hoof biomechanics, and this is the approach that i, like most hoof care professionals understand and adopt. Therefore, rather than trying to explain a theory that makes no sense to me, i will gladly explain the science that i do understand.

Firstly, have a quick look at this link. It is a scientific study and the full document is not free, but read the intro (which IS free) and then come back: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0737080602700622?fbclid=IwAR0XMkYLI3WXah3sD2gYfVttPYY7A_-oOZ_awPZ458Psv_t25IqNOa4IMqo

So hopefully, if you read the intro you’ll see the breakover isn’t just about the toe.

To explain what breakover is: “The act of lifting the foot from the ground (heel coming up first) and rolling over the toe. The breakover point is *the portion of the hoof that is last to leave the ground*”, which would be towards the toe.

If you are interested in the bigger picture, just ask google to show you some other articles on “breakover ddft”, or “breakover navicular”, or “breakover laminitis”. There’s a ton of information from all over the world. Don’t forget to check the sources are reliable and reputable (that part is just as important as the information they provide).

Anyway, going back to the laminitis perspective, first lets talk about what is happening inside of a severely laminitic hoof. You all know that we have a hoof wall, some vascular tissue that acts a bit like velcro, and that velcro basically holds the hoof capsule in place around the pedal bone. Lets assume that in a case of laminitis where the pedal bone rotates or sinks, something happened within the body that caused the velcro to fail. So where all that velcro has torn apart, there is blood and chafing, and if the tip of the pedal bone is pointing down it is probably stabbing/damaging the blood vessels and solar corium underneath it. Excrutiatingly painful, right? All that tissue is inflamed, and the hoof wall cant expand to accommodate the inflammation, so on top of all that velcro failure and stabbing, the horse feels like its hoof capsule is a few sizes too small for everything inside it. In a low grade or less severe case, you might *only* have the inflammation (it still hurts, please dont ignore raised pulses), but for the purpose of explaining how professionals approach trimming laminitics, lets assume worst case scenario;

The hoof is catastrophically damaged on the inside. The body’s response is to try to mend the velcro. So repair horn is spewed into that gap between the wall and the bone. It seals the hoof from infection, it acts a bit like glue (the texture is much like a hot-glue-gun stick before you heat it up) and that emergency repair is what you are looking at when you see a laminar wedge.

So before long you end up with a distorted hoof wall, a wedge that is usually thickest at the toe, and mechanically, every time the hoof *breaks over*, the last part of the hoof to leave the ground is that laminar wedge/wall. There are no two ways about it, you cannot change physics, the breakover is going to be the wall at the toe, and every time that horse takes a step, mechanically that WILL apply pressure to that damaged velcro behind the wall above it. Not only is this excrutiatingly painful, it is also detrimental to the healing process. The reason you see laminitic horses leaning their weight back onto their heels, and/or moving with a short choppy action is because the toe is so sore. So it makes sense that this posture/action is because they are trying to avoid the pain of the pedal bone stabbing into solar corium, and the pain of the wall at the toe being in contact with the ground.

Standard trimming protocol, whether you are a farrier, a vet, or a barefoot trimmer is to 1) lower the heels. In doing so, you change the angle of the pedal bone so that it isnt pointing down so much. It is less painful, and it prevents further damage to the tissue/blood supply. You do not have to trim the heels OUT of the foot. Just di whatever you can within reason to change the angle of the pedal bone. 2) apply a really strong bevel to the toe. That *brings the breakover back*, and thus removes any force from being applied to the wall at the toe. Primarily, this reduces pain. It helps healing. It changes forces on the ddft and other structures within the foot. It can save lives. Again, you DO NOT need to butcher that toe, but you do need to get it off the ground, leaving the toe pillars on the ground at 10 and 2, and making sure, again, you are not dropping the horse on the sole at the toe.

Important: Don’t let anyone tell you that physics and ground force reactions do not exist.

There are many other ways in which hoof care professionals can apply additional methods to help, and that will vary depending on their skillset, but we all know the absolute essentials: lower the heels and get the dorsal wall off the ground. Make that horse as comfortable as you can and in doing so, give it a fighting chance to heal. That’s what we do, and why in a nutshell.

I will add a disclaimer at this point to say if you suspect your horse has laminitis, call your vet. You can call your HCP too if you want, thats fine but ALWAYS call the vet, not only because they are the ones who can prescribe painkillers and do xrays.

As a side note, this article isnt really about all the stuff an owner needs to do when they suspect laminitis. There are loads of other places and posts which cover that aspect, and i am forever going on and on about diet on my fb page… but I read something this morning which suggested that changing the diet is more important than the trim. I’m not here to talk about the diet aspect, but i WILL say if your horse is rotating through his soles and his life is on the line, your priority should always be to call the vet, discuss pain relief and request xrays to assess the damage. Yes, you will need to make nutritional changes, yes you need to do that FAST, but you can soak a haynet while you’re waiting for the vet and deal with the actual hoof first.

Again, there are thousands of resources out there. Credible, scientifically backed sources, studies, peer reviews and articles written by universities, veterinary schools, people who are pioneering research into their fields and have done the maths. These people are world leading experts who dedicate their 9-5 careers to research. They can’t all be wrong… Please don’t take my word for it, see for yourself: www.google.com

06/04/2022

Sorry to say, that due to several circumstances colliding, the livery and rehab business will not be able to take horses for the foreseeable future.

Today we again hosted the Equine Podiatry Training Ltd stage 2 practical exams.  The weather was amazing, and we had a g...
10/10/2021

Today we again hosted the Equine Podiatry Training Ltd stage 2 practical exams. The weather was amazing, and we had a great day in the sunshine, with all the students passing. Many thanks to my lovely owners for allowing their precious horses to be used.

🐴 NOW FULL BUT WILL RUN WAIT LIST FOR SPRING 2022 🐴FULL LIVERY SPACE AVAILABLE 🥕Track system switching to equicentral fo...
06/09/2021

🐴 NOW FULL BUT WILL RUN WAIT LIST FOR SPRING 2022 🐴
FULL LIVERY SPACE AVAILABLE
🥕Track system switching to equicentral for winter
🍎Surface and grass tracks, with access to long old grass for winter
🥕Living out 24/7, but with a big dollop of civilisation!
🐴Yard and stable facilities to use, arena, jumps and poles
🐎Lovely quiet hacking around a network of lanes - lots of hills!
🍎Feed/forage balancer/organic hay all included
👣Hoof trimming included - I am a fully qualified EP
🥕Full care Mon - Fri, owners do horse care at weekends but we still do the jobs - you get the best of both worlds!
😊Weekend cover can be arranged for high days and holidays!
😀All for £120 per week
PLEASE SEE THE VIDEO (pinned to top of the yard page) for a video tour of the track and facilities
Please message or ring with any questions, 07990 973913
Sally Bell DEP MEPAUK BHSAI
Nempnett Thrubwell, just 10 mins off A38 by Bristol Airport

14/07/2021
Amazing how much grass 6 horses can get through in a week - and only on it overnight! No more worries about too much gra...
08/04/2021

Amazing how much grass 6 horses can get through in a week - and only on it overnight! No more worries about too much grass on the track now 😊

31/03/2021

The new grass track now ready... should probably add they’ll go onto it overnight only until it’s not so green! For the first time, I’ve also nothing here which is metabolic at the moment 😅

There's still a way to go, but I can't help feeling a little bit pleased with this improvement over just 2 months...... ...
08/02/2021

There's still a way to go, but I can't help feeling a little bit pleased with this improvement over just 2 months...... heel placement and 'new' dorsal wall showing much more correct placement. Achieved with a combination of trimming, and use of boots and pads 50% of the time to improve the hoof function as a whole. A good program of rehabilitation work with our fantastic physiotherapist has also been vital.

https://www.facebook.com/zellahphysio/

22/01/2021

A little video tour of our track and facilities.... we have a couple of spaces at the moment for full or rehabilitation livery.... do message or call if you may be interested!

16/01/2021

Extend the existing deadline of 1st January 2026 to record historic paths onto Definitive Maps (as required by the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000) for a further 10 years until 2036. Recording a single path can take years, more time is needed to record them all, or they will be lost for ever.

Happy Christmas to all followers and likers, yard and podiatry clients, past and present 🎄🐴 A beautiful day and a bit of...
24/12/2020

Happy Christmas to all followers and likers, yard and podiatry clients, past and present 🎄🐴 A beautiful day and a bit of relief from the hideous weather means the horses are enjoying some Christmas grazing ....
Going into 2021 sees us with a couple of livery spaces.... we look forward to welcoming some new faces - furry and human - so PM or cal if you’d like to find out more...
HAPPY CHRISTMAS 🥂⭐️

Famous for 5 mins 😀Seriously though,  check in to the EPAUK fb page.... it all helps promote equine podiatry...
20/11/2020

Famous for 5 mins 😀
Seriously though, check in to the EPAUK fb page.... it all helps promote equine podiatry...

Promoting Responsible Hoofcare

18/11/2020

Spike could teach the horses a thing or two about foraging.... and he’s very pleased with what he found on the track!

I should also make clear that we do have access to loads of grazing too if required! All management can be flexible acco...
16/11/2020

I should also make clear that we do have access to loads of grazing too if required! All management can be flexible according to individual needs

LIVERY SPACE....Rare Full Livery space available at our specialised barefoot yard 8 miles south of Bristol in Nempnett T...
25/10/2020

LIVERY SPACE....
Rare Full Livery space available at our specialised barefoot yard 8 miles south of Bristol in Nempnett Thrubwell
Joining our friendly herd, living out 24/7
🔸Surface track / Equicentral systems in Autumn & Winter
🔸Surface & Grass/Dirt tracks in Spring & Summer
🔸Flexible management for specific needs.... EMS/PPID/Injuries etc
🔸Large floodlit arena
🔸Stables and usual yard facilities
🔸Lovely quiet hacking
🔸£105 per week - everything included - owners just do weekend care (but we still do the jobs)!

Ring or Message for details, Sally Bell 07990 973913

At last we are finished....! Monsoon type conditions meant the rolling and finishing was delayed, but we are now ‘Back o...
30/07/2020

At last we are finished....! Monsoon type conditions meant the rolling and finishing was delayed, but we are now ‘Back on Track’ 😊

Day one of track improvements.... the weather was unkind to put it generously ☹️ 🌧⛈🌧🌧 but 40 tonnes of Oolitic stone dow...
25/07/2020

Day one of track improvements.... the weather was unkind to put it generously ☹️ 🌧⛈🌧🌧 but 40 tonnes of Oolitic stone down and spread.... hopefully will dry out enough tomorrow to be rolled 🤞

How many horses can you get in our sandpit? 😃 maybe the sand is soft and cool ..... it’s certainly the most popular plac...
31/05/2020

How many horses can you get in our sandpit? 😃 maybe the sand is soft and cool ..... it’s certainly the most popular place to be from dawn to dusk today .... I love how happy they are together 🧡

3 years ago today we were just building the track! It’s lasted well over 3 terrible winters, but we will be doing some r...
13/05/2020

3 years ago today we were just building the track! It’s lasted well over 3 terrible winters, but we will be doing some repairs this summer....

It’s time for some track improvements this year.... starting by edging the track to stop them walking on the muddy verge...
25/04/2020

It’s time for some track improvements this year.... starting by edging the track to stop them walking on the muddy verges which was a problem this very wet winter ....
Some areas will have a new stone surface following in due course ...

17/01/2020

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West Town Lane, Nempnett Thrubwell
Bristol
BS407XE

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