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| Anyone vet check a weanling or yearling before they buy? I'm looking at a 8 month old colt. Everything looks normal. They raise ranch or rope horses. For about 20 years now. Just wondering if anyone does? I haven't but hubby was asking me if I should. I would think if anything was a birth defect they would make it right they seem like reasonable folks. |
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| I know people who have but I would say majority of the people I know do not. Depends on how much you are spending imo. A friend of mine is big into the lungeline and pays big money for her weanlings. She does the checks to make sure there isn't an OCD issues or something right out of the gate. |
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Location: Wherever the Army sends my husband | The woman that bought my yearling colt last year had a vet check done. But she was buying out of state and shipping the colt without seeing him in person. |
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| If paying 10 K or over you better vet check and then insure |
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Location: Kansas | Yep you better vet check them. I'm now regretting I didn't do that with my 2 year old that I bought as a weanling. |
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| The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less |
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Location: Kansas | camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 3:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less
A vet check won't cost much, if you like the colt then have a vet look over him. |
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| I don't think I will ever buy another horse without a vet check. I don't care if it's $1500 or $10,000. Horses are expensive enough without any issues. |
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Location: Desert Land | camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 1:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less
You think $2,500 is too much to spend on a weanling??? |
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| hoofs_in_motion - 2017-02-16 3:19 PM
camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 3:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less
A vet check won't cost much, if you like the colt then have a vet look over him.
A vet check can cost as little or as much as you want. Depends on how thorough you want it.
My vet used to vet check dressage horses that cost over 100k, he said those vet checks would run over 10k, every joint xrayed and ultrasounded.
A good vet check will cost over 1k
It all depends on what you are willing to spend or loose.
Vet checking at 8 months, they can still have issues later on. |
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | TheOldGrayMare - 2017-02-16 5:00 PM camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 1:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less You think $2,500 is too much to spend on a weanling???
2500 is a lot of money for a lot of people, especially for a weanling. |
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Location: Desert Land | kasaj2000 - 2017-02-16 3:14 PM TheOldGrayMare - 2017-02-16 5:00 PM camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 1:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less You think $2,500 is too much to spend on a weanling???
Unless the breeder is doing live cover with their own stallion and having no veterinary intervention you can't even get a weanling on the ground for $2,500 let alone make some money on it. |
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| TheOldGrayMare - 2017-02-16 3:58 AM kasaj2000 - 2017-02-16 3:14 PM TheOldGrayMare - 2017-02-16 5:00 PM camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 1:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less You think $2,500 is too much to spend on a weanling???
They do. he is a home bred colt. She owns the dad plus a few other studs and a band of mares. She raised him dam and owned his grand Dam :) plus she runs her own repro service business. |
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Location: Running my kids somewhere. | TheOldGrayMare - 2017-02-16 4:00 PM camocowgirl - 2017-02-16 1:14 PM The reason I'm gun shy is I had to put down a gelding I bought for 3300, but with the vet costs it ended up over 4000. But he was 12 so that's different. But I'm still scared of losing more money. The colt is 2500. I swore I'd never spend that on a colt but I can't find anything decent for any less You think $2,500 is too much to spend on a weanling???
Not at all!
To get one to weanling age that is not that bad. |
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| At least do the 5 panel test if anything :) Could always check for OCD or check over any bumps that look suspicous, check teeth to make sure they don't have a messed up mouth ect but it all depends on how much $ you want to spend |
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Location: Arizona | I work at a veterinary clinic. We had a client bring in a newly purchased weanling last fall for a routine castration. Colt ended being a crypt, had to have surgery to go after the other testicle which ended up being very high up in the abdomen. Colt came back to us with a hock OCD a few months later. Less than a year old and has already had 2 surgeries. That bargain weanling ended up not being such a bargain after all. If you can afford it, it is definitely worth having a prepurchase exam. |
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Location: The best kept secret in TX | Always do a pre purchase. Even if purchasing from friends. Especially if purchasing from friends.
What happens if nothing out of the ordinary shows up to you until the colt is 2 or 3? Does that mean the breeder owes you your money back and all expenses if the problem was a "birth defect"?  |
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