Sunnyside Equine Massage Therapy

06/16/2024

Summer tips! With the temps rising and some humid days, keep salt/minerals, fresh water available for your equines. Bug spray or fly sheets too to keep bugs away.

03/31/2024

Happy Easter!

01/10/2024

It’s going to get really cold starting Saturday so get that salt/mineral block in front of the horses to create more water intake. Plenty of water, hay, shelter and blanket for those oldies.

11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

07/24/2023

Hey all! It’s going to be a hot and humid week. Keep salt, water and shade available for all your animals. Keep workouts to early morning or later evenings.

04/27/2023

Do to fuel increases and industry standards I am increasing my price to 95 dollars for a full equine body massage. Mileage of 65.6 cents a mile will be charged if over 75 miles from home as well. Thank you for understanding.

03/17/2023

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02/23/2023

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01/08/2023

Something to think about.

Have you all noticed that kissing spine is being diagnosed more and more frequently in the past several years?

There are many many reasons for kissing spine to happen but in this post we are just going to talk about one very obvious one that for some reason fails to get considered in the diagnosis.

If we go back to the analogy we posted a couple weeks ago about the pillars on a bridge, and how important getting the foundation right is to the integrity of the deck of the bridge,

Your horse's hoof angles are the foundational pillars of the integrity of the spine (the deck of the bridge).

Negative palmar angle and long toes are becoming an epidemic in the current horse world. This changes how the horse is comfortable holding his legs.

How he holds them changes the support and the alignment of the spine.

Tie a string to two long sticks. Have one person hold one stick and another person hold the other stick. Stretch your sticks out so the sticks are perpendicular to the ground And the string is basically level. Now, start angling your sticks towards each other and away from each other and watch the changes in your string.

This is a simplistic representation but it should give you the point.

Your horse's feet and the angles they are maintained at are Vital to the integrity of your horse's body and function.

If your horse is newly diagnosed with kissing spine, and there is not an obvious, glaring reason why, Get x-rays of all four feet and find someone who actually knows how to plot out the angles of them.

There is a pretty decent chance that if these are found to be off, the kissing spine can be made to go away in time, with help from a competent farrier and likely some chiropractic work.

12/20/2022

This goes for horses as well. If they have snow on them, they are good because their body is retaining the heat and their hair is insulating them well. Make sure you get salt out there to all animals to raise water consumption, so they continue to stay healthy in the bitter cold.

If I had a nickel for every time someone declared their sadness over a snow covered bovine, well…I’d be giving you all your orders for free haha.

Healthy cattle are very well insulated against the elements and truly the rain is far more detrimental than these low temps and snow.

12/19/2022

It looks like we’re going to see another bad snowstorm coming in on Wednesday through to Friday and then we have that bitter cold windchill coming in. I suggest you get some Salton minerals in front of your horses and other livestock so that their water intake is adequate for the weather that’s coming. Make sure you have extra blankets in areas that they can get out of the wind offer extra heavy and most importantly you stay home  and stay safe .

12/12/2022

Be watching your animals especially horses over the next few days. The warm during the day and cooler at night and barometric pressure changes can cause colic.