Tambercreek Equine Services- Equine Massage and Rehabilitation

10/08/2026

Holistic Fall must haves for you Horse 🐴🍁🍂🧡

09/24/2026

Just checking in with some important reminders 💜🐴

09/17/2026

Many people don’t know this ❗️
Please be careful with who you are hiring to work on your horses!
There is also the point to be made that despite education, all practitioners will practice differently. So for example you could choose someone who has lots of education but maybe they are pushing your horse past their threshold (most likely unknowingly) so it’s not the right fit. Finding the right practitioner requires multiple considerations but please do your due diligence and look into education and don’t just assume they have it! We need to protect our equine partners 💜

08/10/2026

Using this super adorable picture of Kenny from Friday to announce my RETURN for September ❗️
I am going to slowly book clients back in starting in September, my availability won’t be the same so if you’re hoping to get booked in for September please message me asap 💜

07/01/2026

BUG BALM IS BACK ✨ 💚💜
Handcrafted, all organic with homegrown herbs 🌿
The skin is the largest organ in the body, capable of absorbing what’s put on it. Yet we drench our horses in toxic chemicals each year in an attempt to keep the pesky bugs off. I get it, it’s a struggle trying to keep those nasty buggers off. Bug Balm is made to be used on the horses pulse points (check the next slide to see where these are). You only need to apply it sparingly in these areas and the scent will radiate (to the bugs). Remember, it doesn’t have to be super strong smelling to you for it to be effectively strong for the bugs. I also like to apply it at the dock of the tail and ridge of the mane to deter ticks from sneaking in there. You can use Bug balm on its own or in conjunction with other products. The only caution I give is that it’s oil based so don’t slather it on areas that will be in direct hot summer sun (you should keep this in mind for ANY oil or product that contains oils- a lot of fly sprays). I have added zinc and other ingredients that naturally have SPF for added protection. This is for horse and human use, dogs I would say that it’s not lickable because of the citronella + Cedarwood.

⭐️This year looks a little different since I’m on Mat leave and have a 5 week old! BUT I’m planning to arrange some delivery days if there’s enough orders in the same area and can also offer expedited shipping (2 days ish) for $14 which might work for multiple orders at one barn to spli etc. You guys sold this product out so fast last year so don’t wait too long to get yours!
Tins are 4oz and $20 each

04/28/2026

I love mini days 🥰🥰💜

Kenny waiting for his massage appointment like 😌. He had a big grazing session with the sheep, a nice brush to try to de shed for our body work specialist, a snack, and now he is patiently waiting for his friend Tambercreek Equine Services- Equine Massage and Rehabilitation

Kenny can’t wait to be all loose and ready to zoom.

Theo and Sophie are also on today’s schedule.

04/09/2026

Yesss 👏🏻👏🏻 so tired of hearing that you had to feed it with black pepper!! It’s still effective even without it. As someone who takes turmeric religiously for chronic pain, I can attest to this! It still works amazingly 💛

Turmeric - is black pepper necessary?

Turmeric is widely touted to be a magical cure for just about anything (which is possibly stretching it, but evidence suggests that it has a remarkable number of potential biological effects, at least in rodents and humans), but only if you use it in a particular way.

Fans of the golden spice insist that it must be mixed with a fat source (coconut oil is the fave), and *freshly cracked* black pepper.

When feeding horses, this is not always terribly practical - so is it necessary? And why do people say this?

When researching turmeric for my Master's project, I learnt that curcumin (the major bioactive ingredient) is very poorly absorbed - to the point that many wonder how is can have an effect in the body at all. So various things have been tried to try and increase blood levels of curcumin.

From my final thesis 2016 -

"Absorption is another complex issue regarding the use of turmeric. Curcumin is widely acknowledged to be very poorly absorbed and rapidly metabolised, resulting in extremely low plasma concentrations (Anand et al., 2007). Whilst equine pharmacokinetic data is not available for turmeric or any of its constituents, horses would be expected to have a similar pattern, with possibly more rapid hepatic metabolism (herbivorous).

Popular advice regarding turmeric supplementation suggests a fat source be fed alongside the turmeric, as well as mixing it with pepper. As turmeric is hydrophobic, but lipid-soluble, absorption from the digestive tract is improved with a lipophilic vehicle (Shishu & Maheshwari, 2010), and piperine (a component in black pepper) has been shown to slow the metabolic process sufficient to allow an increase in bioavailability of curcumin 2- to 3-fold (Shoba et al., 1998).

In this study, a fat source (powdered coconut oil) was included in the daily meal, however as the use of pepper has not been studied in horses, it was not used to avoid introducing confounding factors in the trial."

So we chose NOT to use pepper in the trial, as it may have had its own effects on the horses - and guess what?

IT STILL WORKED!

While I don't know whether it may have worked *better* with the pepper, I'm guessing the effect would be minimal. Turmeric's efficacy is not solely based on curcumin - it contains 100s of components that may work in synergy with each other to create the results we.

Additionally, in the case of gastric ulcers which I was studying - the turmeric may have actually had a topical effect by physically coating the ulcers and acting that way.

Take home message - if getting your chef's pepper grinder out every day is stopping you from feeding turmeric, don't stress - just add the turmeric (quality IS important though) and make sure there is some sort of fat source in the feed (flaxseed, a dollop of whatever oil you may feed, it doens't matter) - and Bob's your uncle!

03/10/2026

Can’t believe that I’m already in the third trimester (7.5 months pregnant), getting closer to meeting baby boy 🩵 I can’t help but feel so so grateful for all my amazing clients (horse and human) who have made me feel so safe this whole time. I’m so glad that I’m still able to be working 💪 Spring is always a busy time, especially this year. It feels like a race to get as many sessions in as I can before baby is here 💜

02/25/2026

Yellow does look really great on him 💛💛

Kenny wants to remind everyone that self care is very important 💛🖤

He had his massage and KT taping with Tambercreek Equine Services yesterday (tagged in photo because it won’t work here 😭). I have to say, yellow is his colour!

Today, Kenny and the rest of the herd are getting their hooves trimmed 💅🏻

Now… I need to find a tiny halter in yellow 🥹

02/10/2026

Are growth plates closed at 2.5 years old? NO!!
She is showing various breeds here that unfortunately were all put down before 4 years old because they were incredibly lame from being started early. If you start your horse before the growth plates are closed, it will cause bony changes leading to lamenesss.