Calaby Hoof Care

24/07/2022

Introducing Luna, the newest addition to the CHC Family! This young filly is already showing so much promise, I can't wait to share her progress over the next few years 🖤

11/07/2022

Handy diagram for those that get confused.

11/07/2022

Riding, the cure for anxiety!

"Inquire Within Upon Everything"
58th Edition
Published 1877

Photo by Daisy Rio Hems

05/07/2022

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16/06/2022

Making decisions about rugging is much easier when you realise just how different horses are from humans. The temperature range where we feel comfortable (our thermoneutral zone) is much higher and narrower than horses.

In general, horses are comfortable between 5-25℃, whilst humans are comfortable between 25-30℃. That means that we feel cold before horses do, but horses feel hot before we do.

Learn more about rugging from https://horsesandpeople.com.au/the-science-of-rugging-horses-what-to-use-and-when/

11/06/2022

✨ Seeking five product testers within Adelaide/Hills/Southern region ✨

Applicants will receive a sample sized jar of my Frog & Hoof Paste, and will be required to apply it to one front hoof (frog and collateral grooves) once a week, and submit progress photos, along with comparison photos of the untreated (control) hoof. For the duration of the trial, it will be required that no other topical hoof treatments are used on the front hooves.

Trial will run for a maximum of 12 weeks, but if the test hoof results show a definite improvement in a shorter period of time, product testers will have the option to end their trial period early. Those who participate in the trial will also have the option to redeem one full sized jar of the product for free after completion of the trial.

If you are South Aussie, can commit to applying Paste once a week, sending two photos each week (one of test hoof, one of control hoof) and would like to test an exclusive new product before it hits the market, please comment below! I will need your permission to use your photos from the trial, but will not identify horse or owner without permission.

08/06/2022

Extended to the end of June!

29/05/2022

THE UGLY ANATOMY OF RIDING BEHIND THE VERTICAL

(Click to uncover images — how appropriate that the first dissection post to get the 'gore'/'graphic violence’ filter is demonstrating the violence caused by bad riding... You're not wrong, Facebook, you're not wrong at all.)

Riding deep and round places an enormous amount of stress on the tissues of the horse's head and neck, not to mention the snowball effect on the rest of the body.

Posture is everything. Posture affects the health of your horse's body AND mind, just as it does in us.

So be fussy about the postures you see in the warm-up ring. Be fussy about the postures you see in the mirrors of your own arena, or in footage of your own rides. Be fussy about the postures your trainers encourage you to use.

Be even fussier in any horse under 7-9 years of age, who in all likelihood will have multiple open growth plates at the base of the neck.

Because every 'moment in time' like this is a moment of undue suffering, and a moment closer to irreparable musculoskeletal damage at the hands of the rider and an eternity of trying to fix what never should have been broken.

Thank you EPONA.tv for fighting the myth of the 'moment in time' on behalf of the horses.
https://youtu.be/PP35lw1D-Fk

24/05/2022

18/05/2022

17/05/2022

The very smallest coffin bone I have ever had the pleasure of holding in my hand 😍💐🦄

📸 Pedal bone (distal phalanx, P3, coffin etc) from Mystique, a stillborn preemie miniature. Kindly donated by Ms Katy Driver

12/05/2022

Hippomania [HIP-oh-MAY-nee-yuh]
(n.)
-A great love or fondness for horses.

From Greek hippo- from hippos "horse" + Late Latin mania "insanity, madness," from Greek mania "madness, frenzy; enthusiasm, inspired frenzy; mad passion, fury.” First used 1956.

Used in a sentence:
“Atreyu's hippomania was piqued when The Swamps of Sadness claimed Artax on their way to seek counsel from Morla the Ancient One.”
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