Primal Equine Services

01/08/2025

It always feels good to take your high heels off 👠 ❤️ 😌
And it certainly feels amazing to wake up to a message like this 🥰

30/07/2025

"Design is a plan for arranging elements in away that best accomplishes a particular purpose."- Charles Eames

29/07/2025

Never judge the healing process… It takes as long as it takes and you can’t just cookie cutter health into a hoof, it needs to be grown in via balance ⚖️
Next year the new balance will have grown in and the hoof will look more pleasing to the eyes ❤️
For now this horse is sounder and happier and she will continue this way thanks to her balance being honoured by Gawsworth Track Livery 💕

Odessa – Front Right Hoof

Let’s all take a deep breath—I know this looks wild, but what you’re seeing is a hoof capsule in the process of healing from catastrophic hoof care before Odessa came to us at GTL.

We’re sharing her rehab journey as openly and in real-time as possible, because it’s important to show what this process really looks like—raw, gradual, and not always pretty.

Now, I know many of you may be tempted to “tidy it up” or “bring the breakover back,” but this hoof has very little vertical depth. If we start hacking away at the front of the capsule, we risk weakening the entire foot which could lead to collapse and further distortion. This is a delicate balance.

Instead, the foot is trimmed weekly from underneath to maintain overall balance and keep the heels in check—those heels love to creep up fast if left unchecked.

Recently, Odessa had a pocket of infection rupture through the sole. We’re treating and dressing it daily, keeping everything clean. Abscesses and infections are very common in hooves in this condition.

What’s really encouraging is the new growth you can see coming in from the top. That’s the healing angle. That’s the hoof telling us it’s on the right track (literally).

Odessa is x-rayed monthly, and as expected, P3 (the coffin bone) has remained in its de-rotated position—something we achieved when her heels were lowered shortly after arriving in May, because- remember, the back of P3 follows the heels, the heels go up, the toe is chopped and what do you get? P3 rotation.

This rehab will be long and slow. There are no shortcuts here. We can only support the hoof at the rate it’s able to grow and adapt.

As always, there are no guarantees in rehabs like this. Feet in this condition are right on the edge of what’s realistically possible to recover from. But Odessa’s making progress—day by day, step by step.

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29/07/2025

I’ve been around horses all my life and for most of that time I had zero idea what a healthy hoof looks like 🤷🏼‍♀️

Whether you know a little or a lot, common sense and gut instinct can easily tell you that this horse is moving from imminent disaster towards health and balance ⚖️

His hooves are still repairing and knitting back together, as is his body, but he’s well on his way to a sounder future ❤️

28/07/2025

A sign to your horse wants a natural trim 😍

If you are seeing deep cracking or chipping between trims, it’s probably a sign your horse would like a trim that follows his natural hoof shape 😉 😉

26/07/2025

Beyond proud of this girl ❤️ 20+ years old, she hasn’t had it easy, people haven’t been kind, and hoof care seemed an unnecessary stress that she just didn’t understand.

Somehow we have got to this point of trust and understanding ❤️

Just a little conversation between two friends ❤️

Will Amira ever be 100% relaxed around me? 🤔 Our progress in the last 4 years has been incredible however the 17 years beforehand have created some deeply programmed templates.

As long as she is a happy and healthy horse then I’m happy** ❤️

** sitting here with a swollen hand 🤦🏽‍♀️ I tried to swat a fly on her belly and Miss Whiplash decided my hand was the threat 😣 😅

25/07/2025

BALANCE is a word that can open a huge can of worms if we think about what it means and how it so widely affects your horse…

Micromanaging each area of your horse’s health is tiring and endless 🤪

🥳 The beauty is that we don’t need to know all the answers or be a professor of all things…

Mother Nature is always ready to pull every cell of your horses body back to wHolistic balance…

We only need to move out of her way ❤️⚖️❤️



supplied by my horse today 😉

24/07/2025

Balance is everything ⚖️❤️⚖️

This horse had his shoes removed in 2022 but unfortunately his natural balance was not being honoured in the way he was trimmed…

This horse’s strange footfall was so clearly visible and it made perfect sense when I looked at his imbalanced hind hooves… 🤔

I removed a lot of hoof that had been previously left by the previous well meaning farrier…

💔 Imagine the weight of that extra hoof…

💔 Imagine the shock to the leg when the hoof hits the ground before it’s meant to…

💔 Imagine the strain on the joints…

Over and over again 💔

By simply removing what the horse would have in a natural environment…

And reinstating his balance…

We straight away see better balance ❤️⚖️❤️

23/07/2025

This was a milestone for me and Miss Whiplash🏆 ❤️

A year and a half of perseverance and finally I have a horse who is calm about hoof care on all 4 feet 🥳

This has been a bit of her feeling so much better on her hooves, a bit of knowing that she can trust me when she is on 3 legs, and a lot of me becoming the person that she needs ❤️

22/07/2025

Whether it’s 5mm wedges, pumps or stilettos, it’s always a relief to take your heels off at the end of the day 😌 👠

🇪🇸 In Spain, high heels are SO painfully common 😔

Heel to toe balance is ESSENTIAL for correct alignment of the whole leg and body…

Trimming your horse’s heels down is NEVER guesswork, nor is measuring involved…

Instead the heels are trimmed down to the height that self trimming would have achieved in a NATURAL environment…

Quite simple really ❤️

If you think your horse’s heels are creeping higher and higher then get in touch with me today 📞 💬