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11/14/2025

Did you know PEMF therapy isn’t just for horses, pets, or people — it can also benefit chickens and other birds? 🐔✨

PEMF helps support:
✅ Healthy circulation
✅ Reduced stress in flocks
✅ Improved recovery & comfort
✅ Overall wellness for happy, thriving birds

From backyard hens to show birds, pemf offers a safe, non-invasive way to keep your feathered friends feeling their absolute best. 💚

11/13/2025

Big thanks to

Ashlyn Drew, Grace Yung, Tina Collinsworth, Cindy Jorgensen Palmer, Jenna Sessums, Wendy Weston, Stacey Budell

for all your support! Congrats for being top fans on a streak 🔥!

11/13/2025

Update: Runnings and Bomgaars will both be selling Balance for $49.99 per bag. Others - including Tractor Supply, Atwood’s, Shoppers Supply, NRS and many others - will also be selling it soon. And Chewy has it for sale too.

At $50/bag, cost per day to feed a horse in the chart shown drops to $1.50 per day. 😎

Coming to a feed store shelf near you soon! 🥳

11/13/2025

Even just the ordinary and boring times you’re not really doing much of anything. It’s someone’s dream somewhere. So cherish all the little things if not more than the big ones especially with your horse. 🐴🥰

11/13/2025

Manifesting is a POWERFUL thing . Use it wisely

Mindset:

I can do this.
I’m going to make it through this.
I’ve made it through difficulties before.
I’m capable.

11/13/2025

📅 When I say get on the schedule ASAP… this is why!

I’m already working into December and my 2026 calendar 💪
I never want to create a waitlist or send horses elsewhere — I’ll always do my darndest to fit everyone in.

✨ Booking ahead secures your spot and keeps your horse on a consistent wellness routine. Don’t wait — message today to grab your place! 🐴💗

11/13/2025

11/13/2025

The “Stifle Lameness” That Wasn’t: A Story About Referred Pain

I once had a client who told me about a horse that developed an odd, on-again off-again hind-end lameness that no one could quite pin down. Some days the horse looked off behind, as if his stifle was sore; other days he moved completely normally. Nothing about it followed the usual patterns. Things that should have made a stifle issue worse didn’t seem to, and things that “should have” helped it, didn’t.

We were all very confused.

One day, the vet happened to be on the property with a brand-new scope and offered to scope several horses for gastric ulcers — partly to familiarize themselves with the equipment. When they scoped this particular horse, they found significant stomach ulcers.

The horse was placed on a veterinarian-directed ulcer-care plan, and within a few weeks, something unexpected happened:
the ulcers healed, and the mysterious “stifle lameness” vanished along with them.

It turned out the stifle itself had never been the problem. The horse had been expressing ulcer-related visceral pain as stifle discomfort — a classic example of referred pain.

Why Ulcers Can Look Like Hind-End or Stifle Issues

This situation is a great illustration of how the equine body handles pain. Signals from the internal organs and the limbs travel through overlapping pathways in the spinal cord.

Here’s what science tells us:

1. Visceral nerves and musculoskeletal nerves converge.

The stomach and the hindquarters share overlapping spinal segments, especially through the thoracolumbar region. When the stomach is irritated, the brain can misinterpret those signals as coming from the back, pelvis, or stifle.

2. Fascia connects everything.

The deep fascial membranes link the viscera to the musculoskeletal system. When the gut is irritated, the horse may brace through the abdomen and back, altering pelvic motion and limb loading.

3. Protective guarding changes movement patterns.

A horse in visceral discomfort often holds tension through the core, diaphragm, and back. This can create subtle gait irregularities that look orthopedic but aren’t.

When the gastric discomfort resolved under the veterinarian’s care, the nervous system stopped sending those distress signals — and the hind-end “lameness” disappeared.

✳️ Why This Matters

Not every hind-end irregularity originates in a limb. Sometimes the body is expressing visceral discomfort through movement changes.

This story is a reminder of how important it is to work closely with a wonderful veterinarian, and to consider the whole horse — inside and out.

https://koperequine.com/fascia-the-skeleton-of-the-nerves/

11/13/2025

Keep an eye on your horses…. The random changes can send horses into a colic frenzy

🌡️✨ Sudden Stratospheric Warming… what the hell does THAT mean?! ✨🌡️

Alright you glorious little weather nerds, and neurospicy besties, gather ‘round the Weather Daddy Bungalow because things are gonna get interesting in the upper atmosphere 😂

A Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW) event happens when temperatures waaay up in the stratosphere suddenly spike by 30–60°F (or more!) over just a few days. This rapid warm-up can disrupt the polar vortex, weaken it, wobble it, stretch it, or straight-up yeet chunks of arctic air toward the mid-latitudes.

😳 Think of it like:

The polar vortex is a spinning top. An SSW comes along, flicks it, and suddenly that top is drunk, confused, and stumbling around the Northern Hemisphere.

What does this mean for us?

➡️ NOT an instant snurstorm
➡️ NOT guaranteed doom or glory
➡️ But it can change the storm track, crank up winter chaos, or load the pattern with cold outbreaks 1–3 weeks later.

Basically: it’s Mother Nature loading the weather Jenga tower. Which block she pulls next is TBD 😂

✨ Bottom line:

An SSW is a big-deal atmospheric event that can set the stage for colder, stormier, more chaotic weather later, but it’s not instantaneous. I’ll keep an eye on the pattern like I always do, so y’all don’t get blindsided by a surprise blizzard, ice storm, or 70° day followed by “snur” five hours later.

The forecast models are showing a big SSW occurring over the polar regions for the end of November, which would have serious implications potentially on whether in the United States during the month of December. I don’t know how that’s gonna impact us yet.

Might as well hear it from me because it’s making the rounds on the socials and people love making hot garbage click bait. 🤣

Until then, hydrate, touch some grass, and enjoy the calm while the stratosphere decides what personality it’s going to have next 💅🌬️❄️

K bye