Welcome to Thundering Hooves Equestrian
Where the wellbeing of your horse comes first.
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At Thundering Hooves Equestrian, my mission is to promote balance, comfort and harmony in every horse through natural, compassionate care. I believe in working with each horse as a whole being - nurturing their physical health, emotional wellbeing, and inner strength so they can truly thrive.
Every horse is treated as an individual, with care, respect and understanding at the heart of everything I do.
Healthy Happy Horses
My love for horses began long before I can even remember - they have always been part of who I am. Healing and caring for them isnt’ just my career; its my calling.
With over 15 years of experience as a certified nutritionist and Emmett muscle therapist, I’m dedicated to helping every horse feel their best, move freely, and live comfortably. At Thundering Hooves Equestrian, I take a holistic, natural approach to equine wellbeing, focusing on the unique needs of each individual horse.
Whether through balanced nutrition, gentle muscle therapy, or simply understanding their behaviour and body language, my goal is always the same - to help our amazing equine partners achieve harmony in body, mind, and spirit.
Happy Healthy Lives
Their healthy lives began with a nutritious and balanced diet, and now they are thriving.
Molly:
Can you believe that she is now 29 years young. Looks amazing doesnt she? Still running around like she was 10.
Off the track tbred.
Pasture Associated Laminitis - See Right
Here are the first Signs:
* Walking slowly/stiffly
* Muscles feel and look tight
* Lying down more than normal
* Tender (‘footy’) on hard ground or over stones
* Crest feels hard rather than being soft and wobbly
* Shifting weight from foot to foot
* You can feel the Digital Pulse
* Farrier/trimmer notices ‘pinking’ (blood) in the white line
* Rocked back stance
* Reluctance to move at all, worse when moving the fore-hand to the side
You need to act urgently - you may be able to ‘dodge a bullet'.
“It all begins with the assessment. Then new diet, muscle treament and retraining starts”
“Results: A happy healthy horse and a willing partner”
Featured Products
SOS is for horses seriously affected by their pasture grass. Nutritional support for horses that are ‘grass effected
and suffering from sore feed, spooking, nose rubbing, speration anxiety, laminitis, itchiness, girthy, ear shy, head flicking or explosive behaviour.
It contains a proprietarty blend of chelated magnesium, chelated and non-chelated calcium with essential co-factors boron, phosphorous and Vitamin D
Supreme MVA supplies daily essential nutrients, surpassing industry standards promoting superior health and performance.
Formulated for all horses, ponies and donkeys including pregnant, lactating, growing, elderly or those in hard work.
Those on a high-hay diet including those on Tracks and Dry Lots.
Supreme MVA not only supplies all the necessary vitamins and minerals found in Premium NZ Horse Minerals, but also all the amino acids plus Pre & Pro Biotics for sustaining overall health, immune function, top-line and hoof health.
A one-off course for horses & ponies showing signs of depletion:
Horses/Ponies
Under 200kg - 500kg pack 1 tbsp am & pm
200-500kg - 1kg pack 1 tbsp am& pm
Over 500kgs - 2kg pack 1 heaped tbsp am & pm
Signs of depletion:
Digestive disturbances: Loud gut noises, FWS, soft/sloppy manure, diarrhoea
Nervous system issues: anxiety, sacro-iliac, bunny-hopping, staggers, stringhalt, locking stifles
Swellings & puffiness: lower limb, sheath, ventral
Footiness, recovering from laminitis
Feed for several days prior to any stressful event, travel, first experiences.
Also aids recovery.
Is a natural mineral supplement for horses. Ideal use for horses grazing in rapid growth mode, after fertilisation, harrowing of manure, or when stressed by over-grazing or harsh weather conditions.
At certain times of the year grass may spike in potassium and nitrogen and the increased water content of grass in spring all contribute to mineral (particularly electrolyte imbalances in the horse.
While nature has provided the horse with efficient self-regulating mechanisms to keep the body functioning normally at these times, may horses eventually become overwelmed resulting in the various health and behaviour issues.
Grazezy has been formulated to help neutralise or ‘buffer’ these imbalances in the grass.
Alleviate is an ultra-absorbable organic magnesium and boron supplement. (non-swababble)
Magnesium may help to relieve anxiety for ease of handling during times of stress such as: Attending events or competitions, standing starts at harness races, all aspects of race-day, hunting, endurance and trekking, being started, anxiety and excitability, travelling and having their teeth done.
Xtracal is a daily nutritional supplement to assist in preventing calcium/magnesium deficiency in horses.
Xtracal is ideal for horses grazing on oxalate pastures (setaria, kikuyu, buffel, etc) Xtracal is an ideal supplement to assist horses diagnosed with ‘big head’ disease or as a preventative aid.
