Heart Equine

09/29/2025

Thea the Gemsbok in the arena waiting for her training session this morning ! Good girl Thea !

09/28/2025

Wildebeest 😊

09/28/2025

Random pictures with no content feel like a vibe for a while. Hope you all enjoy scenes from my ranch.

Take a nap haters

09/28/2025

These are great photos to study and study some more - I could look at these for hours. This mare was struggling with chronic laminitis and was in full collapse over her front end at the beginning of the year. Cometa has been a special project of Xtremely Impressive Equine Services and I have also had the opportunity to work with this mare early on. You can really appreciate the different energy in relation to gravity and muscling of these somewhat similar postures and appreciate that she is no longer falling over her front end but rather settled into it. Such great work ! Keep it up 😊😊😊

09/26/2025

I’ll be super curious to see where this goes. Personally not on board with this scenario and the extrapolations they are making based on dissection.

I don’t think a horse could function with a collapsed pelvis as described and I don’t believe the tuber sacrale are ‘falling’ inward I think they are being compressed.

I could believe in a story about unstable compressed pelvis’s but not collapsed.

Is collapsing happening?
Yes
But I see it at the lumbosacral joint going ventral and the pelvis getting jammed - at least that’s what’s happening when they are alive and standing.

In my experience most dissections don’t really understand the biomechanics of the living horse and make radical assumptions
To start throwing around this ‘diagnosis’ of collapsing pelvis when this has not been documented in the literature of living horses seems a bit far fetched and please bear in mind that all this work is ante mortem working on cadavers in rigor mortis.

An article written by Dr Carol Shwetz, DVM on Pelvic collapse in horses. I look forward to sharing much more from Carol as we deep dive into problems related to immaturity and dysmaturity in our horses.

https://www.producer.com/livestock/pelvic-instability-often-undiagnosed-in-young-horses

09/22/2025

Was talking anatomy books with my admin this morning and wanted to share my personal favorite !

Key word for me here is ‘clinical’ as not a lot of stuff I’m not interested in !!

As a visual learner this book is packed with pictures and not words which is how I like to learn.

Just another hot tip from me to you 🤣🩷🩷