Majestic Horse Functional Therapy

Excited to be attending the 12th International Conference on Equine Exercise Physiology in Tokyo later this year 💙

If you have been thinking about getting your gelding checked for a bean (as well as having his sheath checked), Beans N Peens, Sheath Cleaning and Bean Removal is making a mid-week trip to the Sunshine Coast and Gympie in mid to late July. If it has been a while in between checks, I would highly recommend having Sam look at your gelding (as it can be quite uncomfortable for them if they've got some stuff stuck in there). Most owners will get their geldings checked when they get their teeth done but often the sheath is forgotten, and you don't know what's up there unless you check. Sam is great and very skilled, so please contact her directly if you would like her to see your gelding while she is travelling to our neck of the woods :) 💙

Thank you to everyone who nominated me 🙂 I have declined my nomination because I am the current president of the ETAA and it doesn’t feel right to also be considered for an award (I am grateful for the nomination though and humbled for those who thought of me). I’m so thrilled for my fellow nominees and wish them all the very best. Thank you for all that you do in service to the beautiful horses of Australia 💙

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Why I Don’t Recommend Vegetable Oils for Horses!

Vegetable oils like canola, soy, and corn are highly inflammatory and harmful to horses. These industrial seed oils disrupt digestion, stress the liver, and increase inflammation, worsening conditions like ulcers and metabolic issues. You would surprised how often owners are told to feed their horses these oils- in fact I hear about it almost every week!

Instead of helping, vegetable oils add metabolic stress and damage gut health. Horses need biologically appropriate fats from whole-food sources like flax, h**p, chia, or rice bran for example.

Choose balance and whole foods over industrial oils for your horse’s health and comfort.

If you want to read more, check out my blog post !

https://kcequinewellness.ca/blogs/equine-wellness/let-s-stop-feeding-horses-vegetable-oil

✨ 𝑨𝒔𝒌 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝑺𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 - 𝑨𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒍𝒂 𝑳𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒔 ✨

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐝𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬?

𝐹𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡, 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦! 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑡. 𝑇𝑜 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒𝑡𝑦, 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝑈𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑖𝑒 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠. 𝐴𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑤𝑒 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ – ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑙𝑒𝑠; 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠; 𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑒; 𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑠; 𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑎/𝑜𝑟𝑔𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑦𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑠; 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑣𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡; 𝑎𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑠; 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑎𝑠𝑐𝑖𝑎; 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛. 𝑊ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑒𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒, ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑟 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒.

𝑆𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦, 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑙𝑙𝑠. 𝑌𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑡ℎ 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠. 𝐸𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑠 – 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑛𝑒𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑜𝑝 𝑎 "𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙" 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑏𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐾𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑒𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠-𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑢𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑝𝑎𝑙𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 ‘𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙’ 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 (𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑠).

𝐹𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑔𝑒𝑡 𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐴 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑟𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒’𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦; 𝑐𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠; 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑒ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑟/𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛; 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠; 𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛; 𝑒𝑥𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑𝑢𝑙𝑒; 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙. 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑏𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑖𝑔𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑙𝑒𝑑𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑠𝑜 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑑𝑒𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑑. 𝐴𝑠𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑. 𝐸𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑠ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑤𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑣𝑒𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑠ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑠𝑢𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡, 𝑚𝑎𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑡ℎ-𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑘 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑠.

𝐴𝑠 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑐 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑜𝑟𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑑𝑎𝑦! 𝐼𝑡 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑘𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐼 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑡 𝑓𝑢𝑟𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 – 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑜𝑙𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒.