Meckyle Perry Trimming, Hoof Care and Farrier

06/06/2025

What a perfect Saturday morning.

27/05/2025

AI at it's finest

14/05/2025

07/05/2025

New knife time, amazing how much almost 3 years of use and sharpening wears the blade away, can't wait to put it to use tomorrow.

16/04/2025

Hi everyone, just a quick post today to let everyone know i will be away from tomorrow morning through to Wednesday or Thursday of next week horse riding so will be out of phone range for a while, if I'm able to get any phone reception before then I will aim to reply to message before then but no guarantee, otherwise I will catch up with everyone next week. Enjoy your easter holidays.

Cheers
Meckyle

14/03/2025

Must be exhausting being so cute

04/03/2025

Relatable

04/02/2025

Very good read this one, really shows the impact of long term laminitis. It's something I often struggle to communicate to people why it's so important to get onto laminitis as early as possible as sometimes the damage can't be reversed.

17/12/2024

Just me, waiting on people to take their laminitic ponies off green grass.

06/12/2024

The molecule of life- glucose.

The lamellae that attach the horses capsule to his foot (like a biological boot) need glucose to maintain their “ superman Velcro” like attachment.

One foot has the same glucose consumption as the horses brain.

If I have have a horse a radioisotope labelled glucose infusion, abs popped him into a scanner, his feet and his brain would light up like lights on a Christmas tree!

How does glucose get to the lamellae? By the circulatory system, the blood.
The blood supply to the foot and its tissues is literally the balance between life of death, of tissues and ultimately the horse.

This is why the professional trimmers and farriers strive to get the blood in the right place by their trims and or appliances to the foot.

Interestingly that a high insulin is one of the causes of the breakdown of the laminar bond. It can be a one off high insulin or a long term constantly high insulin. Insulin is needed to get glucose into cells. But the lamellae use a different molecule to get the desperately needed glucose into their hungry cells. They dont use insulin. They use GLUT-1. A glucose transport molecule.

Once the glucose is inside the lamellar cells it gets trapped inside by phosphorylation- meaning a phosphate molecule gets attached to it and it prevents the glucose escaping the cells.

How amazing is this?

Ref- the illustrated horses foot by C Pollitt

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11/11/2024

Accurate

17/10/2024

Lovely moonlight for a short night ride