Little Oasis Equine Store

12/26/2025

Sounds good to me! 

✨🐴 2026: Year of the Horse 🐴✨

Strength. Freedom. Forward motion.
The Year of the Horse is all about courage, resilience, fresh starts, and chasing what sets your soul free. 🌅

Here’s to a year of bold moves, new beginnings, and unstoppable energy.
If you’re feeling the pull to run toward something new… this is your sign. 💛

12/22/2025

"Our job as hoofcare providers isn’t just removing excess. It’s addressing hoof balance, supporting the feet for proper movement and comfort, and addressing issues before they become pathological or chronic. "

So important to understand this as horse owners! We can never 'get away with' anything when it comes to horses hooves.

Winter Hoof Growth

Here in Massachusetts, winter came earlier than usual this year. Inevitably with it come the questions about winter hoofcare cycles -
“how long do you think they can go between trims now that their growth has slowed?”

“They don’t really need another trim in 5 weeks do they?”

Now I’ll try to make this short and sweet. As a hoofcare provider, I am fighting for my life to get horses’ hooves in a better spot all spring, summer, and fall- often fighting against metabolic concerns, grass intake, excessive growth, distortion even on a regular schedule, etc.

But for all the horsekeeping issues we deal with in winter, at least for many horses winter gives us a little reprieve in their excessive growth and potential distortion. This is the time we can get ahead of hoof issues- when we can address the flare before it starts, when we can work on correcting angles without doing too much all at once, when we can get heels to come back under the limb and get breakover in a good spot, and we can get the entire horse moving and feeling better.

Although it’s tempting to want to stretch out a horse‘s hoofcare cycle in winter, and while for some that may be an okay option, I am most excited when l can stick to the same cycle year round and make even better progress all winter and set the feet up to be healthier when the spring growth hits.

Our job as hoofcare providers isn’t just removing excess. It’s addressing hoof balance, supporting the feet for proper movement and comfort, and addressing issues before they become pathological or chronic.

If your hoofcare provider is asking to stay on the same cycle this winter, trust that they’re trying to make sure the feet don’t get into a spot you have to rehab from next summer.

12/22/2025

Happy Solstice & Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄☃🎅
Wishing you a relaxing, enjoyable time this season.

And now... the 🌞 starts to return! Best 🎁 ever for 🐴 owners... right?!

12/21/2025

🎁It's that time of year and if you'd like to help out a horse loving friend with their winter horse expenses... we've got you!

☃Gift card amounts start at just $15 and go up to $400

**please be aware that the full amount has to be used when redeeming - there is clear FAQ below the product so be sure to make the gift receiver aware 🐴

https://www.littleoasisequinestore.ca/shop/p/gift-card

12/17/2025

🐴✅ Me and Xenia out for a good steady ride. She's such a great horse. Have you read her story?

➜ littleoasisequinestore.ca/blog/how-i-rehabilitated-a-foundered-horse

12/15/2025

That’s our boy!  Getting in trouble as usual lol 

12/15/2025

Q, Blü and Stiletto (from left to right) making sure I tie their hay net just right! Nice work if you can find it 😅🐴 plus if your hands get cold there's furry beasts near by to warm them 🔥

12/15/2025

📣📣📣 the moment we have all waited for ⚡️⚡️⚡️

THE WHOLE HORSE SOUNDNESS conference is back!!!
MAY 9th-10th in Ontario.
Meet and greet on the 8th and MEMBERS’ ONLY wet lab day on the 11th.

We are so happy to present another line of great professionals and bringing cutting edge practice to the hoof world.

⚡️⚡️Early bird ticket sale is on!! ⚡️

Check out our website for more info.

https://canadianequinehoofcare.com/

12/15/2025

Equestrians - it's only 10 days until lighter days are upon us! Hang on in there! 💪🌅

12/11/2025

So true! 🤣

😂🐴 Nothing like a little more wake up call...