Flyin' B Equine Services

02/01/2025

I love dogs just about as much as horses. Those farm dogs are just amazing, loving creatures!! Meet Hessie. She's an anatolian shepherd who I absolutely adore & is the first pure bred I've seen in person!💜

02/01/2025

01/30/2025

01/30/2025

I still think this could look way better.

Ive made some slight changes. But what do we think as a whole?🤔

01/28/2025

Alright, we had interest in something with a hoof trim, equine massage, & a magnawave session!

We can do a couple of things! Make a post & tag 2 people type of thing for a free trim OR we can do a $5 draw with 17 spits & you have a $85 credit to use how you'd like.

What do we think?!

01/27/2025

What are a few reasons to massage a horse in the off season??

Massaging a horse during the off season can be very beneficial for their overall health and performance. Here are my top 5 reasons to massage a horse during this time:

1. Muscle Relaxation and Recovery: -Horses can experience muscle stiffness or soreness after months of intense training or competition. Massaging helps to relax tight muscles and promote blood circulation, speeding up recovery and reducing the risk of injury when they return to full activity.

2. Improved Flexibility:
-Regular massage can help improve joint mobility and overall flexibility, which is crucial for maintaining proper movement patterns and reducing the risk of strain or discomfort once training resumes.

3. Stress Reduction:
-Horses, like humans, can experience stress, especially after a competitive season. Massage can have a calming effect on the nervous system, promoting relaxation and helping to ease any anxiety the horse may feel during the downtime.

4. Prevention of Injuries:
Off season is the perfect time to address any muscle imbalances, tight spots, or potential weak areas in the horse’s body. Massage can identify and alleviate these issues before they turn into more serious injuries once training resumes.

5. Enhanced Blood Flow and Detoxification:
-Massage stimulates circulation, which helps flush out toxins from the muscles and tissues, and brings oxygen-rich blood to areas that may have been underutilized during the competition season. This promotes overall health and faster recovery.

These benefits make it an essential part of an off season routine to ensure the horse stays healthy, balanced, and ready for the next season.

When was the last time you had your horse massaged??

Message me to get on the books for February. 😊

01/24/2025

Had quite the audience today!😂 what cuties!❤️

01/23/2025

The elder dogs i have worked with have LOVED MagnaWave PEMF! 🥰

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01/22/2025

PEMF is great for ALL show animals, big & small. 🥰

01/22/2025

Which 2 are you picking???
Free vet bills will definitely be one of my picks then im not sure if i want free coffee or show bills paid?😂

01/21/2025

You cannot escape ground reaction forces - and what I mean by this is you cannot escape the way the horse's hooves interact with the floor.

Your horse's hoof shape directly influences how they interact with the floor and equally the shape of their hooves directly influence their muscular recruitment and therefore their postural development.

As an example of this, here is a diagram of the horse's superficial retraction myofacial chain. This chain supports the retraction - i.e. the drawing back - of the horse's forelimb via connections from the solar surface of the pedal bone, through the back of the forelimb and shoulder, over the ribcage and over the top of the neck.

If there is loss of development, and therefore loss of depth, in the caudal hoof - i.e. the back third of the hoof - you're effectively creating 'fascial drag' which contributes to shortening the topline of the horse's neck and compression of their ribcage.

You can visualise how, if the heel drops, the whole fascial chain is suckered down.

Creating the appearance of a hollow horse with a short neck and perhaps overdevelopment of the underneck muscles.

Now of course you can bias your training for length and elevation through the neck, flexion through the back and expansion of the ribs; but if your horse's heels are low then you will be creating conflict.

Because you're asking that horse to inflate into restricted fascia which is being further implicated by ground reaction forces.

In doing this, you will contribute towards making movement uncomfortable - which lets be honest, poor training practices already do a good job of this(!)

You will perhaps bias towards the risk of injury or reinjury - which is slightly oxymoronic if you've chosen that movement plan as a means to rehabilitate or develop healthy posture.

Your horse will be spending more time practicing poor posture, which is more time teaching their nervous system that this is homeostasis.

And since movement and emotional health are intertwined, you may also be contributing to a negative emotional state.

Fascial chains do of course work both ways, so you can bias your training for healthy movement and it may help with caudal hoof orientation, but you cannot escape the influence of the ground and so, if you're not including your horse's hoof care within that picture, you are only giving your horse half the chance for success.

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For this month's webinar, I am delighted to be joined by the wonderful Beccy Smith of Holistic Equine, where she will be discussing what healthy hoof morphology really is, the factors that influence it and what you can do to help your horse.

Beccy is an Integrative Equine Podiatrist who truly considers the whole horse with respect to hoof health. Her keen eye and attention to detail is second to none in the hoofcare sphere and I cannot wait for this webinar!

27.01.2025 19:00 GMT

Recording available if you can't make the live ❤️✨️

01/21/2025

Myth: Feed keeps my horse warm in the winter.

Fact: Hay is most effective for keeping horses warm in the winter. The act of digesting hay produces more internal (metabolic) heat than digesting corn, oats or any type of grain. Increasing the amount of quality hay offered during cold times will allow the horse to warm themselves from the inside out. This is a much more effective means for staying warm than increasing grain.

Always offer good quality immature-cut hay versus later-cut hay or straw. Feeding overly mature hay or straw can set a horse up for impaction colic because it contains a high amount of indigestible fiber and has less water holding capacity within the digestive tract. Mature-cut hay is generally evident by thicker, stiffer stems, and full heading out of the grasses (or blooming of alfalfa). Keep in mind the best indicator for maturity and quality of hay is through a simple forage test.

Edit- this does not mean adding a new forage without transistioning. Just increase their current daily forage. Randomly adding alfalfa to a horse that only eats grass hay or vice versa is only going to add unnecessary stress to the body during a time of stress and increase the risk of digestive upset, and nobody wants that- not you, your horse, OR your vet 😉

01/19/2025

I love bun buns!🐇

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01/18/2025

This weekend has been full of trimming with a few firsts!
A mini, a c**t, & my first pony with some rotation to her coffin bone.
I got a video of the pony yawning & she yawned with lick n chew after i set down each hoof I trimmed. I absolutely LOVE helping the horses I see, whether it be by bodywork or by trimming. It's all coming together & I'm loving every bit of it. 💕

Thank you to those who had me out this weekend including the ones with bodywork. 🥰

01/18/2025

Signs of pain to watch for

01/11/2025

01/10/2025

A few clients & I were talking about our doggos today, so I figured why not share the boys here??

Kaiser (GSD) was in his element, running & playing, while Hank ate some snow then crouched by the house wanting back inside. They got to help me clear off the walk way to the house & they loved it. 😍