Small, friendly, family run Livery Yard in Higham.
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✨️Thankyou for all your enquiries the spaces have now been filled✨️
I have one livery space becoming available at the end of November ideally 15.2/16hh or under,DIY or Assisted DIY.
I also have a short term livery space suitable for box rest, holiday cover.
Dm for more info. 🐴
I'm on the look out for a saddle.
16" mw wintec brown gp
Or
Thoroughgood t4 16 or 16.6 mw mml brown
Big thankyou to everybody that came to the SHOWING CLINIC WITH INTERNATIONAL HOYS JUDGE GEORGINA MAYWOOD today. The weather was perfect and everybody looked fantastic in the sunshine.
Thankyou Georgina for all your help and tips you gave the girls, lots to work towards over the winter, looking forward to our spring clinic ahead of next years showing season.
We will be holding individual or pairs lessons over the winter so pm if interested.
Together again
Goodnight Ma'am, thankyou for your service 🌹
Great clinic yesterday, thankyou to everybody that came and to Hannah for running it 🐴
STICKY WEED....SHOULD OUR HORSES EAT IT?
Sticky W**d for Horses, also known as Sticky W***y, Clivers, Goose Grass or Cleavers (Galium aparine). This is a very useful 'w**d' and most horses love the taste.
Sticky w**d supports the lymphatic system and is a diuretic. This means that it is particularly good for flushing out swellings and inflammation.
Cleavers are a great 'tonic' herb and can benefit horses with filled puffy legs, horses on box rest and as a Spring tonic ❤
🐴Available this week during half term 🐴
**Further New Dates Added**
My Summer 2022 dates have arrived for
Leicestershire, Kent, Scotland & Lincolnshire..
2 day Animal Communication Courses, Advanced 1 day animal Communication courses and my 1 day Animal Mediumship courses are finally confirmed.
Please find all summer dates below:
MAY
Saturday 28th May
1 day Advanced Animal Communication Course in Leicestershire ( for anyone who has attended the 2 day course)
**Fully booked now**
JUNE
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th June
2 day Animal communication course in Leicestershire (open to all)
***Fully booked now***
Saturday 11th June
1 day Animal Mediumship Course
in Leicestershire (open to all)
** Spaces Available**
JULY
Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th July
2 Day Animal Communication Course in Leicestershire (open to all)
**Spaces Available**
Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th July
2 Day Animal Communication Course in Scotland (Scottish Borders)
** Spaces Available**
AUGUST
Saturday 6th August
1 day Advanced animal communication course in Leicestershire ( for anyone who has attended the 2 day course)
**2 Spaces left**
Saturday 13th & Sunday 14th August
2 Day Animal Communication Course in Lincolnshire (open to all)
**3 Spaces Left**
Saturday 27th & Sunday 28th August
2 Day Animal Communication Course in Leicestershire (open to all)
** 2 Spaces Left**
SEPTEMBER
Saturday 3rd September
1 Day Animal Mediumship Course In Leicestershire (open to all )
** Spaces Available**
Friday 9th & Saturday 10th September
2 Day Animal Communication Course in Kent (open to all)
**Spaces Available**
Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th September
2 day Animal Communication Course in Leicestershire (open to all)
**3 Spaces left**
For more information on any of my courses please email me at : [email protected]
We are super excited to be hosting this fabulous 2 day course of Animal Communication with Richard Geldard.
Don't miss this wonderful opportunity to develop your spirituality and learn how to communicate with Animals.
For more details please email Richard.
Im really excited to be taking my 2 day animal communication courses on tour this summer, and on Friday 9th and Saturday 10th September I’m bringing my course to the fabulous venue Equus Seven in Higham in KENT, ME3 7NU
Please email me for more details and to book a space at [email protected]
PART LOAN
Ed is looking for a part loaner.
Suitable for a confident,competent,calm rider, as he can be a little excitable at times so no novices, it wil be for hacking and schooling only. Opportunity to complete in dressage competitions for the right person.
Financial contribution required.
DM for more details 🐴
All sorted for another year, all very good well behaved babies... 🐴
Boots and bandages - are we harming our horses as we try to protect them?
Bandaging and booting our horses is becoming more and more popular, especially with the popularity of matchy matchy sets. But are we doing more harm than good? Most people will have come across the articles in magazines and comments from vets saying they are, and yet still they become more and more popular. Why is that? Why do riders still cover their horses in thick fleece bandages or fluffy boots despite the dangers? Tradition I suppose. Wanting to fit in. Or just habit, some will feel like they haven’t finished tacking up if they haven’t put the boots on.
I know this isn’t about dentistry (for which I apologise) but I am a vet first and foremost, and as a dressage rider I am asked why I don’t use bandages all the time. I’ve written about this several times now and no one pays attention, so rather than stating facts and quoting research, I’d like to take you through my journey of discovery, please bear with me. Facts and papers are at the end.
Rewind 12 years and I was in my final year at vet school. Prior to and during vet school I had a horse and we did dressage. I had planned to ODE but this horse pulled every tendon and ligament known to vet kind. He spent more time out of work than in. Each time I would up my game with the latest boots/bandages on the market. From fluffy boots to wraps to sports fetlock boots, fleece bandages to gamgee and cotton to the half fleece/half elastic bandages. I learnt new techniques for better support, figure of 8 bandaging to cradle the fetlock etc etc. I’d been there and done it. My collection was extensive.
Right at the end of vet school I had my rotations. I chose Equine lameness as one of my options. During in this I very vividly remember a wet lab with Dr Renate Weller where she had a skinned horses leg (showing all of the tendons and ligaments) in a machine that mimicked the pressures a horse applies to their limbs. She took us through walk, trot, canter and gallop, loading this leg so we could see the inside workings of the horses leg without the skin. It was fascinating I can tell you, and I very clearly remember thinking about my horse and wondering how on earth we are suppose to support this limb when it undergoes these incredible forces! Half a ton of animal pushing down a tiny spindle of a leg held by tendons barely thicker than my thumb. Craziness!
Fast forward just a few short months and I was a fully qualified vet in the big wide world. I attended my first BEVA Congress and during the break I wandered around the stalls looking at the latest inventions and technologies companies bring to these gatherings. Here I came across a company with the Equestride Boot which caught my eye. Now if you haven’t seen this boot, it’s wonderful and I’ve since used it a few times in rehabbing very severe tendon and ligament injuries with great success. The boot is a carbon fibre boot that stops the fetlock dropping, which stops the tendons and ligaments being fully loaded while they heal. This boot is super strong. You couldn’t ride a horse in it as it is limiting the range of motion so much, but they can move about easily enough at the lower settings to rehab etc. The guy on the stand (I’m afraid I can’t remember his name) showed me their research and in the straight talking Irish way explained the stupidity of expecting a thin piece of material to support a horse. And of course it can’t! Literally no bandage or boot (short of this very expensive carbon fibre rehab boot) is capable of reducing the amount the fetlock drops. Thinking back to Dr Weller’s demonstration, I could very clearly see how ridiculous I had been to ever believe a scrap of material could do anything to reduce or support that pressure.
But the boots/bandages don’t actually cause any harm do they? Surely it’s ok to use them on the off chance they might help and if we look good in the meantime, great! Well, not long after this, research started appearing that got me very worried about my bandage collection. Heat. Anyone that uses bandages and boots will not be surprised to see sweat marks under their bandages/boots after they’ve been removed. They trap a lot of heat. The horses body and legs generate a lot of heat when working. The tendons/ligaments in the leg, along with an increased blood flow generate ALOT of heat. Fleece bandages/boots in particular, hold this heat in the horses leg. Very few boots and virtually no bandages (especially if you use a pad under) allow the legs to breath adequately. This heat is easily enough to kill tendon/ligament cells. Each tendon/ligament is made of thousands and thousands of cells all lined up end on end and side by side in long thin spindles. They stretch and return to their original shape and size like an elastic band, absorbing and redistributing the pressures applied from further up the leg and from the ground impact below. All of these cells must work together as one to do this effectively.
Just a little side step here to explain how tendons/ligaments heal. A tendon/ligament cell can not be replaced like for like. They always heal with scar tissue. This is why reinjury is so much more likely if a tendon/ligament is blown. The fibrous scar tissue doesn’t stretch, it isn’t capable of stretching or absorbing the impact of a horses movement. It will always be a weak spot. In a full blown sprain/strain the whole (or most) of the tendon has been damaged. But this heat injury might just kill a few cells at a time. Those few cells are replaced by fibrous scar tissue, then next time a few more etc etc. Like a rubber band degrading over time the tendon/ligament loses its elasticity and eventually goes snap. Then you’ve fully blown a tendon/ligament. The injury didn’t start to happen at that moment, but that was the final straw. The damage adds up over time, each time thermal necrosis (vet word for cell death) occurs.
So if using boots/bandages can not offer any sort of support, and using them generates heat that slowly damages the tendons/ligaments until they give way. Why use them? Protection. This is the only reason to use boots. To stop the horse brushing, injuring themselves catching a pole or over cross country. But for goodness sake make sure your boots are breathable! If the horse is sweaty under the boot but not above or below, the boot is not breathable enough. And don’t use fleece bandages just because you like the colour. These fleece bandages are the worst at holding heat in the leg, way above the threshold for thermal necrosis to the cells of the tendons and ligaments. If your horse doesn’t need protection, don’t use boots. I haven’t for the last 12 years and *touch wood* I haven’t had a single tendon/ligament injury in any of my horses. I will never go back to boots or especially bandages now. I don’t use them for schooling, lunging, jumping, travelling, turnout, stable, in fact I don’t use them at all. Ever. But I don’t hunt or XC.
I hope you have found my story useful and can make informed decisions on boots and bandaging going forward.
For more information on the Equestride boot and their research into support offered by boots and bandages, visit http://www.equestride.com/ and https://www.equinetendon.com/services/equestride/
The horses leg under the compression machine at the Irish Equine rehabilitation and fitness centre https://fb.watch/cmVMt6-iOJ/ (I highly recommend you watch this incredible video. It clearly shows the amount of force the leg goes through and demonstrates the real purpose of boots)
Other relevant papers-
https://equimanagement.com/.amp/articles/horse-skin-temperature-under-boots-after-exercise
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8f15/0ea480edca142260d01f419f80d2e7e7fb29.pdf
http://www.asbweb.org/conferences/1990s/1998/59/index.html
Edit 1 - I am getting asked about stable wraps very frequently. This post is about riding, the tendons and blood flow create heat which is trapped by bandages/boots during exercise. This doesn’t occur in the stable stood still. If the horse has a strain/sprain resulting in inflammation, then there is an increase in blood flow and there is heat being created. In this situation you should not be bandaging. But if it’s cold and an old horse needs stable wraps to keep the joints warm and improve sluggish blood flow (filled legs) you can use the heat trapping to your advantage. But you need to be careful in summer.
Edit 2 - the other thing I’m being asked about is compression. Compression DOES NOT control inflammation. The inflammation still occurs, but the swelling can not escape the bandages and the increase in internal pressure reduces blood flow, causing ischemic damage. Like laminitis within the hoof. The hoof capsule prevents swelling so the inflammation expands inwards and cuts off the blood supply. This is why laminitis is so painful and difficult to treat. Compression is only useful in the case of leaky vessels, for example reduced blood pressure, reduced movement so the blood isn’t being pumped backup the legs, or osmotic imbalances eg low protein with diarrhoea. In these situations, compression of the legs can encourage blood to return to the vessels and continue circulating.
💞 3 years today since we said goodnight to beautiful Tally she was a very special girl and will always have a big place in my heart.💞
TODAY'S COURSE WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR THIS WEEK 🐴 DM TO BOOK OR FOR MORE INFO.
Photo's from todays clear round jumping in aid of the Ukraine 🇺🇦 we raised over £300 which will buy veterinary supplies for animal victims of this dreadful war 🇺🇦🐴🐶🐱🦁🐯🐷🐮🐰
*** PLEASE DO NOT GIVE AWAY/SELL YOUR OLD and/or UNRIDEABLE HORSES ***
Today I did one of the saddest euthanasias I have done in a long time. This wasn’t a client of mine, and to be fair, it actually wasn’t this person’s fault. I don’t normally go out to non-clients, but I wasn’t going to say no when I was told the horse had collapsed and couldn’t get up.
I arrived to find an emaciated 20+ year old, riddled with lice. The client had been sold the mare 7 weeks ago, and told she was a 7 year old. The old mare was gobbling away at feed, so she genuinely was just too weak and emaciated to stand. With some really good, strong help, we tried twice to get her up, but she just didn’t want to. So I made the quick decision to let her go.
No horse should end his or her life like that. She was scared, and whickered at me when I came back with the catheter and Somulose. She went with no dignity, in a place she had been for just a couple of months.
I want to cry when I see these awful posts on social media, offering a 20 year old horse for sale “as a companion”, for £50, or “free to good home”. I want to cry even more when I see posts on social media, with people in complete and utter shock and disbelief that the “beloved/much loved etc” horse, that they gave away just two months ago, was now being sold as a ridden horse.
I’m sorry, but wake up. Not many people really want to take on an old horse and the associated vet bills. I do appreciate there are exceptions, but if you are going to give your old or unrideable horse away, do NOT expect to then be able to take the moral high ground when he’s advertised two weeks later. He’s not your property at that point, and, unless your circumstances drastically changed, you didn’t care enough about him to now be “devastated” and “appalled” that he’s being moved on again. I do understand that circumstances can change, but the kindest thing in most (not all) cases at this point, is to let your horse be put to sleep with you, at the home he has known for many years.
A horse is as expensive to keep as a companion as it is a riding horse, so not many people want to take on old or unrideable horses. Or if they do, they don’t have the money to be able to look after the horse properly.
It is obviously completely different if you have known that person for many years, and know the home the horse will be going to, and I know several old horses who have been successfully rehomed to friends, or at least acquaintances.
You could also try a reputable rescue centre, if your financial circumstances changed, but many of these are full to bursting. Rescue centres normally ensure that if the home doesn’t work out, the horse is returned to them again, and therefore won’t be passed around.
If you can’t look after your old and/or unrideable horse, then do the responsible thing, and if you can’t rehome to a person you know extremely well, have them put to sleep at home, with you by their side. Don’t let someone you don’t know, have the horse for free, and sell him two weeks later as a lot younger, or ‘buted up as a ridden horse. Your horse deserves better.
Photo of my old man, Harold, who is rising 22 this year! He hasn’t been ridden for a few years now, and is just an expensive field/stable ornament….as is Molly….as is Mojo….as is William 🤦♀️😂
😍😍 Cuteness over load 💙💙
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Dear PFK family
I hate to be writing this post, like really hate it. So much so that it’s taken being told off by a supporter for not doing so. I’m sat here in the UK giving myself a migraine with old prescription glasses busily trying to find Gift Aid donations so that I don’t have to post the truth the reality. We’re struggling, like seriously struggling. Gone are the days when our posts reached everyone. Gone are the days that posting “asking for donations” would garner a £1000 at least - and pretty much matched via the other methods. These days it’s a few ££s
PFK has been running for nearly 2 years now under the fabulous new management of Morad out there in Egypt.
Thanks to Morad you’ll see last year he managed to run it on £400,000. (20/21) Down from £900,000 the year before. (19/20)
Dealing with way more animals than ever and completely transforming Fluffyland. He didn’t cut corners. Just made sure he got the best deals possible. The team of guys we have became focussed and worked incredibly hard to ensure the horses got the best care. Morad has literally transformed both the horses lives and the team. Made them a team.
Shehab has just sent me the numbers of animals we are caring for.
247 horses
86 donkeys
8 mules
341 horses and donkeys
Those numbers include
116 Foster horses
27 Foster donkeys
So permanently living at PFK are 198 Equids.
That is without all the other animals that call Fluffyland home. 😞
We calculated the average cost of an horse or donkey as being £100 per month.
Sadly for the last few months we’ve not been hitting anywhere near the money we need on a monthly basis - even after reducing the fosters from 150 horses 😞 Unless things change we are going to have to send the fosters home early and reduce the numbers again by half.
I think it’s a combination of Facebook not showing you the posts, the majority of our supporters being from the UK where furlough has ended. But mainly I think it’s my inability to post the need.
I’m sat here faced with admitting that I am overwhelmed with how I’m not doing the right things.
Not posting the right kind of posts that attract the attention of those that have a few spare pennies to donate.
We had a video go viral - 14 MILLION views. A sweet moment between Hamdi and little Ghazela. The only thing that’s come from that are disgusting comments. I mean seriously disgusting 🤮 For every 1 nice one - I’ve hidden/blocked at least 1000 vile ones. I can’t bring myself to delete it though because maybe it will reach someone that will actually donate.
We’ve not been able to spend any money at all on maintenance these last few months. There’s so many things that need fixing around the land. The winter killing off many of the temp shades that were only supposed to be for a year. It’s one of the reasons he doesn’t like doing lives anymore - he’s embarrassed.
I flew over for my birthday. (And for those wondering I’ve been paying for all my trips this year) I actually wasn’t going to having only been there a few weeks before - but I knew I needed to do plenty of ‘lives’. There wasn’t the money for meds. I spent £200 myself on sedatives. Thanks to all of you buying via Amazon wish list I still managed to take some over.
But it really felt awful travelling mainly with “nice to haves” and not the normal “really needed”
The bottom line is something has got to change. We cannot sustain this amount of animals without a massive boost to regular funds.
We are not a big charity with 10s of £1000s in the bank. Here in the UK everyone is a volunteer. There’s 3 board members myself included and a handful of lovely supporting ladies.
We don’t have the money to pay for professional fundraisers. We can’t afford to pay for adverts (that Facebook wants every post to be)
So I’m asking you from the bottom of my heart to dig deep. Please please please don’t think your £1 or your £5 won’t make a difference because it really will. If you donate or not please comment. That’s helping others see the post so that they can too!
Right now this is an urgent appeal for donations as I really don’t want to send the horses home - but it’s also an appeal for people to get together and help fundraise for us. Come up with ideas that the PFKSupporters page can try and implement. If you sponsor a fluffy - try getting your friends to complete his or her team. Half of the fluffies aren’t in there because half that aren’t fully sponsored! I’d love to be adding more because the teams are all complete!
Talking with a friend, they suggested dollar day be changed to the start of the month as everyone gets paid at the end of it -
But all our land rents and the guys wages are paid then too, so unless we have two that’s not going to work 🤔
Ideas that are admin friendly would be nice! 🤞
Thank you for reading and helping, I hope that together we can do this 🤞 love Emma x
I realise that I’ve been adding a link to our methods of donating and that maybe that’s not the best so the following is them all listed.
If you’d like to help support our much needed work please comment and react and share this post and if you can help financially -
You can donate the following ways:
PAYPAL: 2 ways!
1 - Everyone can use this link!
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=4ZECJVLTBB694
(It allows you to donate any amount from £1, allows you to make it monthly and you can use your card if you don’t have PayPal 😊)
2 - Paypal direct to [email protected] (Please use the ‘for friends and family’ option if you can to save PayPal fees)
VIA OUR BANK(s)
We have a few Transferwise currency accounts all feeding to our main UK account -
UK Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Bank: Barclays
Sort code: 20-02-62
Account No: 53834387
Ref: Donation
EURO Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Bank code : (SWIFT / BIC) TRWIBEB1###
IBAN: BE36 9670 2342 7381
Bank Address:
TransferWise Europe SA
Square de Meeûs 38 bte 40
Brussels
1000
Belgium Ref: DONATION
AUD Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
BSB Code: 802-985
Account Number: 311775270
Bank Address:
TransferWise
36-38 Gipps Street
Collingwood VIC 3066
Australia Ref: DONATION
NZD Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Account number 02-1291-0170628-000
Bank Address:
TransferWise
56 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JJ
United Kingdom Ref: DONATION
(Despite the UK address this is a NZ domestic account)
PLN Account Holder: Prince Fluffy Kareem
Account number: 31 1020 1026 3741 0000 0001 9033
Bank Address:
TransferWise
56 Shoreditch High Street
London
E1 6JJ
United Kingdom Ref: DONATION
(Despite the UK address this is a PLN domestic account)
Finally if none of the above are suitable - Facebook donate button 😊 here on this post (but please note it has a minimum donation and it will take up to 6 weeks to get to us)
And PLEASE don’t forget that if you are a UK 🇬🇧 tax payer and we have your details ALL your donations are Gift Aidable!
Easy online form https://forms.gle/nbEJavmUWj2QoMyM7
Course hire is available on Thursday 1st February, PM to book or for more details.
Hi all, I hope you’re well.
Please note - unfortunately from 1st January, due to ever increasing fuel and insurance costs lesson prices are as follows….
Private lesson £35
2 sharing £20 pp
Clinic prices vary depending on arena hire charges.
I am always able to offer Lessons at Coldblow Equestrian ME14 3LR
For any queries or to book a lesson please contact me 07793214709
If I don’t see you before I hope you all have a happy Christmas and a healthy successful new year x
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💞 3 years today since we said goodnight to beautiful Tally she was a very special girl and will always have a big place in my heart.💞
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