Becka Keay Equine McTimoney Chiropractor

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Becka Keay Equine McTimoney Chiropractor

Additionally teaches for the MSc MVetChiro course at McTimoney College. Professional and friendly Equine & Canine McTimoney Chiropractor. Fully insured.

Professional and friendly highy qualified Equine McTimoney Chiropractor, soft tissue massage therapist + qualified in class 3b laser therapy and Kinesiology taping. Qualified from the McTimoney College with MSc Animal Manipulation with distinction. Also gained my Post Graduate Diploma in Animal therapy which qualifies me in massage therapy. A member of the McTimoney Animal Association (MAA) and AHPR.

27/08/2025

Edit- Now filled ✅
Cancellation space available Monday 1st Sept at approx 11am Exeter area. Message me if you want it!

26/08/2025

Congratulations to Tag Eventing and Primo 😍👏🏻

26/07/2025

Receiving messages like this just absolutely makes my job! 🥹👏🏻
We sent Jake to the vets 18months ago with the suspicion he may have Kissing spines. This was proven correct and he had surgery.
His owner followed the rehab plan to the letter and he has grown from strength to strength.
Now he is backing jumping and going better than ever 🥹💞

15/07/2025

Love receiving messages like this from my clients 🥰
Genuinely makes me so happy to hear people’s wonderful achievements and being part of their team to get there 💞

03/07/2025

How have we all been in the heat this week? 💭

For me it’s meant early dog walks, horses out overnight and brought in early out the sun and flies, a lot of sun block for my horses little pink nose, electrolytes for the horses and consuming a fair amount of electrolytes myself through the day as I melt at my appointments 🥵

The rest of the week looks a much nicer temperature 😎

02/07/2025

It’s a day for equine therapies 🐴
This evening the big coloured boy had a session with Becka Keay, Equine and Canine McTimoney Chiropractor. One very relaxed and happy chappy 🥰

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11/06/2025

*** THE ABSOLUTE NECESSITY of MOVEMENT ***

Movement. An absolutely crucial word in a horse’s vocabulary, and one I use on a daily basis as a vet. Horses are not designed to stand in stables, or small turn out pens with a haynet, 24 hours a day. I am clearly not in the slightest bit anti-stabling, as my horses are stabled overnight throughout the year, but they are out from 7.30am-5pm every day (unless it’s dangerous to do so).

Unless injured, I don’t believe a horse should be confined to a small turn out pen, either. These seem to have become very popular, and whilst obviously better than a stable, a turn out pen barely bigger than a stable isn’t the equivalent of turn out.

As I’ve mentioned, there are obviously times when turn out isn’t possible; the horse is ill or injured; it is too dangerous to turn out due to frozen ground or storms; you need to restrict grazing if prone to laminitis; a livery yard doesn’t want their land trashed when the weather is atrocious; um….no, that’s it.

If you can’t turn out for any reason, and the horse/pony is sound and healthy, then you need to get walking! Horse walkers are fine for some of this walking, and do definitely serve a purpose of keeping horses gently moving when large paddocks aren’t available, but they don’t replace mooching and picking at grass. This article isn’t about grass, but I also truly believe that every horse and pony should be able to pick at grass, even if that means a grazing muzzle, or an hour or so on grass a day. Horses were “designed” to eat green stuff, and to have their heads down and wander around grazing, not to stand around eating from haynets, staring at grass through a fence. It’s our fault (I include myself) if we let them get fat, but I don’t believe that should mean they spend the rest of their lives staring at grass in the distance. I digress. An article for another time!

We all try to do our best for our horses, and I absolutely understand how it feels to be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t. I’ve seen three colics in the past two weeks that I strongly believe were due to lack of movement. A horse’s digestive system needs fairly constant, albeit slow, movement to function correctly. Standing around in small pens or stables doesn’t suffice, and can (and will) lead to problems with the gut. I strongly believe that in hand grazing MUST be used to replace turn out in horses recovering from injury, AS WELL AS in hand walking. Yes, it is extremely time consuming, but if we can’t turn out in a big paddock for whatever reason, then it’s absolutely our responsibility to do the grafting to replace that.

I’ve written before on why I barely ever recommend total box rest for any condition, so I won’t go into that, but I just wanted to get the message across that movement is such a crucial ingredient to keeping horses healthy and happy.

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Photo of Harold and Alfred several years ago, when Alfred used to think it was perfectly normal to sit like that and watch the world go by 🙈

18/05/2025

I have been debating for over 18 months whether to keep my current name for my business as Becka Keay as my reputation is known by that name- clients/vets/farriers/ physios know me by that. OR do I change it to Becka Blackmore my new married name? But risk people not knowing who that is?
So out of curiosity I’m putting it to you my followers 😊 let me know what you think!

09/05/2025

Congratulations to Tag Eventing and Primo! It’s amazing to watch a horse go from a cute little foal to a super event horse 🤩🙌🏼

02/04/2025

This lovely boy has had a busy winter with lessons, hacking, hunting and jumping and had his back check up this week 🥰
His saddle fitting last week resulted in him going up a head plate size having built up some topline muscle which is great news 👏🏻
During my history taking it showed up he had misjudged an arena xc fence in Feb and got briefly stuck on it. This little trauma could well have started the process of becoming a wonky pony!
He’s now aligned and ready for the Easter holiday activities 🐣

Photo 1- Before treatment standing square.
Photo 2- After treatment standing square.
Photo 3- processing the treatment with lovely yawns, licks and chews

Causes of misalignments and muscle tension can be split between acute and chronic.
Acute causes are from a trauma such as a slip,trip or fall either in the field or when ridden.
Chronic causes can be longer term things such as chronic lameness, saddle fit issues, crooked riders etc.

This is why I ask so many questions in my history to establish what’s been happening between my visits or my first time meeting you and your horse 📝

17/03/2025

Such a great start to the season for Tag Eventing 😍👏🏻

21/01/2025

January has been full on so far! 👏🏻

Today this boy provided a very dramatic before and after treatment photo comparison. 📸

He had a traumatic accident colliding with a telegraph pole anchor wire (not sure if that’s the real term 😅) when he escaped from his field a year ago. A year of recovery and he’s back to start his dressage career 👌🏼Today was his first treatment before really starting ridden work and I think we can all agree he needed his check up 😅
Im excited to follow his career 💞

After accidents, even when wounds have healed, it’s always a good idea to have a check up before commencing work ✅

Address

Devon
EX153DN

Telephone

07805038566

Website

http://beckakeay.co.uk/

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