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| How big of a deal breaker is that to you guys? Its a weanling, they said he eats fine. |
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Location: LA Lower Alabama | Rope-N-Run - 2016-09-27 3:05 PM How big of a deal breaker is that to you guys? Its a weanling, they said he eats fine.
How well bred? If so so I would walk away. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Not a deal breaker for me, known a few of them as barrel horses and ropers and they were awesome horses. |
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Location: Kansas | I have a red dun coming 2 year old with one.......you can't even tell she is parrot mouthed unless you look. Me personally, depends on how bad but usually isn't a deal breaker. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | If it's mare, I pass them by regardless of breeding. I don't want to be stuck with a mare that may or may not give me a parrot mouth baby.
Gelding I may consider If he is already running cosistently and is priced accordingly. Problems down the road may happen and I don't want to add to maintenence costs. So he would have to be a 1D unicorn for $5000 for me to consider buying him with a parrot mouth.
Weanling, I would walk away. There are better put together weanlings out there that I'm sure are the same price. I wouldn't care if he was Peppy San Badger himself. (And I LOVE Peppy San Badger). I'd walk. I would be hard pressed to sell him once he was 3/4 and broke to ride. I feel like Parrot Mouthed horses values are lesser. Regardless of talent. JMO
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Deal breaker because we run ours in pasture most of the time. Eats fine if it can eat out of a bucket is probably more like it. Have a vet decide maybe if you really like the horse. |
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| Doesn't matter to me we've had them before with no problems we've also had a broodmare with It and she never produced one |
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| It is a deal breaker for me! I had a deposit on a filly and when I got a vet check on her (for insurance purposes) the vet disclosed she had parrot mouth. I backed out of the deal. My understanding is most (but not always) this is genetic. If I remember correctly, AQHA used to not allow parrot mouthed horses to even be registered. They will now register them, but if AQHA knows about the parrot mouth they will state it on the papers. I am a firm believer they should not be used for any breeding purposes no matter how well bred the horse is. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Mis_Trev - 2016-09-28 10:08 AM It is a deal breaker for me! I had a deposit on a filly and when I got a vet check on her (for insurance purposes) the vet disclosed she had parrot mouth. I backed out of the deal. My understanding is most (but not always) this is genetic. If I remember correctly, AQHA used to not allow parrot mouthed horses to even be registered. They will now register them, but if AQHA knows about the parrot mouth they will state it on the papers. I am a firm believer they should not be used for any breeding purposes no matter how well bred the horse is.
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Location: God's country | I would use that as a bargaining tool. We bought a mare 5 years ago with a filly on her side. The filly had a pretty significant parrot mouth but we still have her & have her floated every 6 months. She eats (even short grass) with absolutely no problem. Actually I have just had to put her on a diet. It wouldn't really bother me after having dealt with it before, but just know you'll have a little more dental work ahead of you. Also, our mare's bite has improved with regular dental work. |
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