VH Freelance Equestrian Services

05/08/2026

Photo dump from a busy week😁🙌🏻🐴

Happy hump day!💃

05/08/2026

🚨 STOLEN VEHICLE – PLEASE SHARE 🚨

One of our veterinary trucks was stolen from the Elton area last night, and we’re asking our local clients, followers, and the wider community to please keep an eye out.

The vehicle is a grey Nissan Navara with registration KY69 TTO. It has the Fellowes Farm Equine Practice logo displayed on both sides.

⚠️ Please note: We have other similar grey Nissan Navaras at the practice with similar registration numbers, but the stolen vehicle is the one ending in TTO.

If you see this vehicle, please:
📞 Call us immediately on 01487 773333, or
📞 Report its location to the police by calling 101.

Your help in sharing this post and keeping an eye out is greatly appreciated. Thank you.

01/08/2026

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30/07/2026

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💙 Thank a Groom Thursday 💙

Behind every great round, polished turnout and happy horse is a groom who's put in the hours.

Today, we want to celebrate the people who make it all happen.

👇 Tag a groom who's gone above and beyond recently and tell us why they deserve a shout-out.

Whether they're your groom, colleague, friend or employee, let's make sure they know their hard work doesn't go unnoticed. 🐴✨

30/07/2026

EQUISS is here to support everyone from leisure riders to professional competitors, from equestrian students to full-time workers, from grooms to owners and everyone inbetween.

If you are involved with horses at any level at all and have experienced harm, abuse or violence in an equestrian setting we are here for you.

Learn more about our support services: equiss.org.uk/i-need-support
📧Email [email protected] to arrange a time to talk (open 08:30-16:30 Mon-Fri)

29/07/2026

How stunning are these photos?😍👌my beautiful friend and her beautiful horse Hugo 🐴🥹😍

29/07/2026

FAT DOES NOT TURN INTO MUSCLE

That would be alchemy.

But did you know, that muscle can turn into fat?

Well, not exactly turn into fat, but be infiltrated by fat.

First, let's look at the fat-to-muscle myth:

An over-thin horse with muscle wastage due to energy deficiency will not be able to build muscle - because muscle requires adequate energy as well as protein!

The myth of fat turning into muscle probably came from the transformation of body tissues seen after an exercise program due to the horse losing excess fat at the same time as building up the muscles.

What you are actually seeing is body fat reducing - as the energy it contains is used up due to energy expenditure being higher than energy intake – and at the same time, muscles increasing in size and/or definition as a result of exercise. Loss of body fat also allows the muscles to be seen easier.

What about this muscle-to-fat thing?

It's not that muscle can turn into fat, but it can infiltrated by abnormal levels of fat, which is called 'myosteatosis' - a pathological accumulation of fat in skeletal muscle tissue.

Unlike sarcopenia (loss of muscle mass), myosteatosis directly degrades muscle quality, diminishing contractile strength, and acting as a strong independent predictor of frailty, insulin resistance, and poor surgical outcomes in humans.

Ageing, inactivity, steroid treatment, muscle injury, obesity and metabolic conditions like insulin dysregulation have been shown to be involved in humans.

We don't yet have equine-specific research on this yet, but given how prone horses are to metabolic issues, obesity and how many are ageing and/or inactive, it raises interesting questions about what might be happening at a muscle-quality level too.

The encouraging part: exercise appears to help prevent it in the species studied so far.

The take home message is - exercise is healthy for our horses, in more ways than we even know about yet!

(Sources: Wang et al., 2024, iScience; Hamrick et al., 2016, Front Endocrinol)
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