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stayceem - 2019-03-22 10:14 AM
Bucksinbeauty18 - 2019-03-21 5:19 PM
stayceem - 2019-03-21 4:15 PM
I personally wouldnt either. Dealing with some pidgeon toed horses in my past, it has effected them and too many nice stallions without that risk. However, I am one of those that think stallions should be everything. Conformation, pedigree, temperment and preferably proven.
What type of issues can come from pigeon n toed horses?
The few I have known, have needed corrective shoeing and have had various lameness issues. One did very well but he definetely could have been more competitive had he been straighter in the leg IMO. But he was maintained really well by a vet so I think had he been raised in different hands he wouldnt have been as successful. The other I knew used to buck once ran too hard. A lot have had coffin joint issues. just not for me as far as breeding puposes. So expensive to get babies on the ground as it is, would hope to set myself up for the least amount of room for error as possible.
The biggest reason is because pigeon toed horses bear most of their weight on the outside of the foot which is abnormal and puts stress on the other parts of their limbs and into the shoulder.The second reason is because people try to fix them... It's a conformation issue and can't be corrected with shoeing. Changing the angles just increases the stress on the coffin joint and other lower leg extremities. Your left with hoping that their knees and shoulders hold or corrective shoeing and hoping that their feet can withstand the extra stress.
No reason to pass the quality on to offspring, no matter how slight the rotation is.
there are so many photoshopped stallion ads its crazy...... and so many barrel studs that have horrible conformation. i dont care if they are a full brother to xyz if their tail comes out of their back and legs go every which way they need the boys chopped off
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