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Location: alabama | Has anyone had a horse toed OUT? I just got an awesome lil horse he's toed out, I'm just wondering if anyone has had issues or the horse has had problems on down the road as they get older?? |
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Location: SE Louisiana | I've seen tons of toed out horses that performed just fine.. |
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Location: Montana | Toed out is better than toed in. My little gelding is toed out slightly, but if you look at him front and back, the way he stands he is pretty correct...not perfect, but nice. He doesn't interfere so far, so I don't worry about anything unless I'm given reason to (he interferes, acts sore, whatever). |
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Location: alabama | Ok thanks y'all! That's good to hear. I also trail ride a lot I just worry it would make him sore or hurt if ride for too long. We go to the mountains sometimes an ride for hours an hours... |
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | This is a picture of Matlock Rose on the early great cutting horse, Jesse James- this is the image that the NCHA uses for its icon. My dad rode Jesse 'back in the day and said that he toed out so bad he walked like Charlie Chaplin. It didn't hurt Jesse any-
Well, shoot! The pic is too big- let me see if I can make it smaller. Nope, can get it smaller but can't get it to load. Carry on.
Edited by cloverleaf 2015-04-27 8:50 AM
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Location: Beggs, OK | mtcanchazer - 2015-04-26 8:59 PM Toed out is better than toed in. My little gelding is toed out slightly, but if you look at him front and back, the way he stands he is pretty correct...not perfect, but nice. He doesn't interfere so far, so I don't worry about anything unless I'm given reason to (he interferes, acts sore, whatever).
That's actually incorrect. Toeing out causes more stress on the entire leg than toeing in does.
Either way can be bad, but either way can also not effect them much. |
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| mtcanchazer - 2015-04-26 8:59 PM
Toed out is better than toed in. My little gelding is toed out slightly, but if you look at him front and back, the way he stands he is pretty correct...not perfect, but nice. He doesn't interfere so far, so I don't worry about anything unless I'm given reason to (he interferes, acts sore, whatever).
I think you have that backwards.. Toeing out they'll have more problems than one toeing in. Biggest thing is to NOT, try and correct it, especially if they are later in years. Trim and shoe them how they stand. Everything from the foot up will have adapted for the angles. |
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Location: Aubrey, Texas | Yes, I think the proper prescription is "shoe them as they stand." |
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| The way of going is opposite of the structural deviation. If a horse toes OUT, when they travel they wing IN. If they toe IN, they wing OUT when they travel. Toeing OUT is more likely to cause a horse to interfer with itself than one that toes IN. One that toes OUT will more likely have soundness issues too. It depends on the degree of the flaw and if the knees are offset. |
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Location: alabama | Mine looks strait until u get to the pasterns and he's barefoot and if u look at the bottoms of his feet they look just like a normal foot! |
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Location: Montana | FlyingJT - 2015-04-27 9:41 AM mtcanchazer - 2015-04-26 8:59 PM Toed out is better than toed in. My little gelding is toed out slightly, but if you look at him front and back, the way he stands he is pretty correct...not perfect, but nice. He doesn't interfere so far, so I don't worry about anything unless I'm given reason to (he interferes, acts sore, whatever). I think you have that backwards.. Toeing out they'll have more problems than one toeing in. Biggest thing is to NOT, try and correct it, especially if they are later in years. Trim and shoe them how they stand. Everything from the foot up will have adapted for the angles.
Sorry, must have not been thinking right. I agree, though, and so does my farrier, don't try to correct the problem once the horse is fairly old, you'll have more problems than it is worth. |
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