The Current Equine

05/24/2026

Many just slumber while the humans are working hard! 🤦‍♀️

05/19/2026

Whether you ride, groom, work with them on the ground!

05/19/2026

Back in the saddle woohoo!

05/18/2026

Filter your water if you are high iron!! Spleen issues will result and RH lameness

IRON SABOTAGE
Do your water buckets or troughs look like this?! If so, Iron could very well be sabotaging your horse's important mineral and nutrient absorption!

A little lesson on IRON:
+Iron is a micromineral (meaning it's needed in MUCH smaller quantities).
+Iron is considered a TOXIC element and when overloaded, it will deplete other trace minerals.
+Iron has a harder time leaving the body, unlike other minerals. Small amounts leave the body in sweat, blood and intestinal cells but excess amounts cannot leave the body.
+Iron overload taxes the liver, gut and natural detox pathways.

Iron sources for horses are PLENTIFUL and DO NOT need supplemented without probable cause and testing. Iron is in EVERYTHING!
+Iron is in forage (naturally from soil)
+Iron is in commercial feed and supplements (iron chelate and ferric sulfate are common forms you'll find on feed ingredient lists)
+Iron is in “most” mineral blocks and lick tubs (along with other not so great ingredients)
+Iron is typically higher in well water than in “city” water (having your water tested is a great precaution and filtering accordingly) {Toxic Iron Levels are above 500ppm}

Iron depletes copper and zinc most!
EXCESS IRON SYMPTOMS may include:
+laminitis or poor hoof health/quality
+protein absorption issues-having a hard time holding weight
+trouble getting wounds to heal
+low immune function
+tendon/ligament integrity
+coat pigment fading (dark manes and tails bleaching)
+gut and digestive disruption

My friend Stephanie Carter wrote an amazing book that explains this topic and so many others to better understand functional equine nutrition! https://www.indigoancestralhealth.com/product-page/equine-functional-nutrition-understanding-root-cause-to-restore-vitality

IRON could be a ROOT CAUSE to the symptoms your horses are dealing with.
Don't keep wasting your money trying to supplement away a problem.
If you suspect it might be, I would be happy to help you dig deeper with a nutrition consult!
Email schaefferbodyworks@gmail.com to get started!
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05/15/2026

Fix the body strength and carriage and you can address the feet! The Farrier is super important but only half of the picture. Nutrition is super important but only part of the picture too. Their body strength and how they carry themselves and how they land on the ground is the other part of it. So if you see distortions like this in your Horse Is feet overtime after the trim right before they’re due for another trim, consider changing things up under Saddle stretching a little do a little range of motion before you ride feel the stiffness on one side versus the other don’t jam them into the stiffness just help them along and open any elongate the tissues. It does take time you can’t crank them around if they don’t bend to the right, don’t crank them around to the right, you’re just jamming what’s broken already!
Be gentle!!

05/11/2026

Rehabbing is using the tools to enhance healing, promote proper motion, and strengthen well!

05/08/2026

So here I am rehabbing my girl with a suspensory ligament tear in her right hand, microcurrent times two hours, prior to that laser times eight minutes with a special gel that I apply that enhances healing. For me, same gel, same laser, the microcurrent will come in a couple of weeks after my PRP wears off. I had ankle surgery nine days ago.
More to follow as the weeks progress. Something special going to be applied to my girl tomorrow.

05/07/2026

Spinal microcurrent treatment!

Woohoo amazing results! Flushes lactic acid and clears the spine for energy flow.

05/01/2026

My sweet horses are boarding with a close friend while I get ankle surgery, now me and chiclet will be rehabbing our “fetlocks” together!

04/28/2026

Now this is real freedom would be super to do this with our horses!!

04/23/2026

Here we go rehabbing…laser, carnosine gel, microcurrent and kinesio taping with a brace for turn out.
Can you guess what happened?