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Location: London Ontario | How big of a deal breaker is it? Vet told us we can do surgery or give him the winter off and let it calcify and he will be ready to race in the spring. I will try to upload the xrays. I have never dealt with this before so I really don't know. There sure are a lot of nice horses out there... |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Are you talking deal breaking for a purchase or keeping and riding? If it was me, I would have it removed. |
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Location: London Ontario | To buy. He is a three year old with four outs |
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| Pass on him .. they ran him too young before his knees closed and wore grooves in the knee which destroyed a lot of cartilage which will not regrow and the sides of the grooves broke off after calcifying and created the chips when ran full out..... it is rare for a horse to fully recover without using massive doses of pain killer, injections or nerving if possible ..
you will continue to find floating chips which will put him on the constant lame list at your barn .. will appear alright and 10 steps later will be lame with constant vet bills .... and your vet was incorrect when he said a chip will calcify ... it has no growing powers and is just a piece of floating calcium or cartilege debris ... like having a rock in your shoe ..
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR DECISION .. |
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| I would pass on him.
They are hard to deal with. Those Injections are needed even more frequent than regular maintenance.
Got to where we were injecting every 2-3 months and it wasnt worth it.
Horse has now been turned out for 3 years, still isnt 100% and has some major swelling/arthritis in that knee. |
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| We bought one with a chip. Because we got her cheap we decided to wait and see what happens. Now we are sorry we didn't operate. It wouldn't worry me a bit to have one removed. |
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| They do not calcify. I have a horse with two floating chips. He is 17 and they are still floating. Retired him because I was afraid he would fall with me. Trainer told me years ago he was off on that leg. He has been lame occasionally on that leg. My horse is a trooper and he will work for me but I know he is in pain. I would keep my money and move on. |
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Location: where ever my L/Q trl is parked | Several years ago....I picked up a really nice grade mare that had bench knees. She was 1/2d mare and a sweet heart. I should have passed on the deal, but I needed something that would take care of me and she did. About 18 months later her left knee blew up, hada chip, but it wasn't a floating chip -we injected and she was good for about one year. I had her go thru surgery -went thru physical therapy during recoop and she was ok for about 9 months then it blew up again... so we injected the knee total of 4 times. By that time she had lost 35% of her flex/bend in that knee. The vet told me it was just a matter of time that if I kept running her she would probably go down with me in a turn because of the lost of flex. I quite running her for a while and everytime I left for a race she would whinny to me wanting to go. So I decided to take her one night just for practice, trot/slow lope the pattern to see how she went. She was okay, but she wanted to run and I wouldn't let her. Several other girls had run so the ground around the barrels was torn up a bit, great ground btw. And during the slow lope of my run I notice all the ruts, divots and such and decided if she step in one and couldn't bend the knee enough to catch a trip or stumble then we would go down for sure. I decided it wasn't worth taking a chance of serious injury for her or me so she got retired for a recipitant brood mare. |
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Location: London Ontario | Thanks all, I think I am going to pass...too many other nice horses, hopefully the rest will vet clean! |
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