Copper Meadows Equine

01/27/2024

Some wise words! Often we just trust that the products on our shelves are safe for use!

07/24/2023

I have received a request to travel down to the Chester/ Hubbard's area on a weekend in August! Send me a PM if you are interested in getting on the list!

07/08/2023

This is such an amazing visualization of how adhesions in fascia affect the musculoskeletal system as a whole!

07/06/2023

I will be in the Port Williams area this Sunday (9th) and have a few more openings for Equine Massages. If interested send me a PM.

02/12/2023

Some food for thought..could your hay net use actually be causing more harm than good in your equine pals back, neck amd TMJ!

Discover how the position you feed your horse in can have a positive or negative affect on his health and well-being

02/11/2023

I love Kin-Tape!

I find horses usually start to feel some relief instantly, Sir William sure did with this pole application!

And he likes that the blue matches his eyes 💙

02/08/2023

Don't give up ❤️

Somewhere in the world, the 2028 Olympic champion is a foal out in a field. He’s ewe-necked, sickle-hocked, downhill and shaggy, with a club foot and a chunk of mane missing, because his buddy chewed it off.

Somewhere in the world, there’s a young horse that everyone says is too short to make it big. In three years, he’ll be jumping the standards, but right now he’s fat and short and no one is paying him any mind.

Somewhere in the world there’s a 7-year-old who can’t turn right, and a 10-year-old who has not shown the ability to put more than two one-tempis together without losing it, and a 14-year-old who hasn’t yet reached his peak, and all of them will be at the next Olympic Games.

Somewhere else in the world, there’s a rider who is thinking of packing it in. Maybe the bills are getting out of control, or she’s killing herself to get enough help in her own riding development because she’s having to spend all her time riding and teaching to make ends meet and change needs to happen, and she’s wondering if it’s worth it. She’s thinking it’s time to just give up and be a local trainer, to shelve her dreams of international competition. And then she’s going to shake off the doubt, double down, and make a team in the next 15 years.

Somewhere in the world, one of the next great team riders is 9 years old and couldn’t tell if she was on the right posting diagonal if her life depended on it.

Somewhere in the world there’s a future team rider who just got told that she’ll never make it because she’s too chubby, because she’s too short, because she’s too late.

There are horses who will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars that will never amount to anything, and there are horses who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to be never seen or heard from again, and there are horses who will fly under the radar until suddenly they’re setting the world on fire.

There are riders who will win Junior and Young Rider competitions only to quit riding completely, riders who will be touted as the Next Big Thing only to get stuck in their comfort zones and never come to fruition, and there are riders who will make their first Olympic team at 50, at 55, at even older than that.

And yes, there are the horses that will be brilliant from day one, and there are the riders for whom success both comes early and stays late. But more often than not, history has shown that the unlikely story, the horse who was passed over in favor of his more expensive stablemate, the rider who no one saw coming, is the more likely path to greatness.

Credit and written by Lauren Sprieser at Chronicle Of The Horse

02/02/2023

Check out this awesome digital creating of the musculoskeletal system! https://fb.watch/irNmrRo7bD/

01/31/2023

Some important statistics!.

01/30/2023

Temperatures are dropping drastically this weekend, a possible new record for Nova Scotia.

This change can be a huge shock to the body and we will need to pay extra special attention to our equine friends.

Seniors, very young or thin skined horses may need extra blanketing to help them maintain an ideal temperature. Horses that normally do not need blanketing may need blankets this weekend as their bodies will not have time to acclimate to the drastic change in temperature.

Do you know your horses regular body temperature?

It's a good practice to keep a log of basics like your horses weight, and normal resting body temperature. In situations where the temperature drastically changes (up or down) this can help you know if your horse is as risk of hypothermia or heat stoke.

Do yourself and your horse a favor and take their temperature in the next few days while it's mild, so you have something to compare to over the weekend. The average core body temperature is 38 degrees!

Some more helpful tips, make sure your horse can get out of the wind, snow, and rain. When you combine wind with precipitation and cold your chances for illness increase.

Make sure you horse has access to heated water. Horses drink more when water is warm, and less when temperatures are cold. So have some heated buckets available. You can even add some salt to their meal to encourage more drinking..

Make sure your horses have lots of quality forage available during this cold spell! Horses generate heat by eating and the fermentation of forage occurring in the hind gut!

And Encourage movement! Movement generates energy which helps keep you warm.

Check on your horses often this weekend, the big temperature change will be happening overnight.

Stay safe everyone

01/30/2023

Check out this awesome video showing how a noseband and flash can restrict a horses mouth and put pressure on their delicate nasal bone, vs an anatomical bridle.

Seeing this you can see why so many Western headstalls don't have nose bands!

https://fb.watch/imPnswi-im/?mibextid=6aamW6

12/19/2022

They speak loudly if we just take the time to stop and listen

For the sake of the horse

They have no wish, no life agenda,
Gifts of innocence form the life sender,
Mother natures expression of truth,
There is no lie in their eternal youth.

We take them and we mould their ways,
Without question they serve their days,
They are but, what we create,
Mirrors of our own, personal state.

They have no voice, yet they speak to us,
Un-heard words, while we rush and fuss,
If only we stopped and open our eyes,
We would see their quiet and subtle cries,
It’s time we learnt to read the signs,
The language of their body and mind.

The little change in the way they stand,
The extra pull they exert on your hand,
Little words, they’re trying to speak,
“I’m hurting” “I’m feeling weak”
Open your hearts and open your ears,
Don’t make them work through invisible tears,
The science is there to give you the tools,
No excuse in ignorance for being cruel!

Now a word for the farrier, the practitioner too,
Remember there is a being as you do what you do,
The innocent ones are depending on us,
They stand and willingly give their trust,
Take the time to really look,
The signs are there like an open book,
Expand your knowledge, sharpen your skill,
And be the one the speak for their will!!
-Yogi Sharp

Join us in the upcoming webinar series to have an insight into what their will is!

Starting Jan 8th with Touching Wild with Bonny Mealand

https://equineeducationhub.thinkific.com/courses/what-can-we-learn-from-horses