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Location: Albany, Georgia | The club foot is not bad! Doesn't seem to effect her at all! But im looking into the future and wondering how it will effect her resale value, how it will effect her run, etc
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Location: Crane, TX | Don't!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why buy a problem when there are so many out there that don't have one? |
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| Up through about 18 months old a lot of babies show a very minor club foot ... we call it a grazing foot ... due to long legs, short necks on babies reaching down to graze in the pasture ... and putting all their weight on one of their front feet.
If it continues after you started your trimming schedules and is a "boxed" smaller hoof ... then more than likely it will have it their entire life ... a good farrier will put a smaller shoe to fit this boxed hoof even if he has to use a mule shoe ..
The main thing is that you have good forward facing flat knees with no toe in or out on the babies front end ... and the pasterns are in a good up right position with no coon footedness due to let down pasterns.
I am very particular on mares and my stallions conformation being very correct and this goes for any outside stallions too ... so my babies do not have any crooked legs or other problems that show on the day they are born or later as they grow up.
Two of the pictures are the same filly ... COUGARS MISS BEHAVIN ... showing the weight bearing hoof when she was a baby eating ... the other is to show you how I like for my babies to be setup with flat knees facing forward and pasterns that are beginning to get the correct slope as they grow and add more weight to their bodies ... and no toe in or out and not having a grazing hoof ...
The other photo is one of my mares that have the front end that I demand on my broodmares ....
 (COUGARS MISS BEHAVIN 11.22.2013 (9).JPG)
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Location: Bandera, TX | Run the other direction if you have high expectations for this horse. I had one a few years ago. Could run with the wind and turn on a dime but he broke my heart and his trying to stay in the game at a high level. He was deserving of a quick retirement. |
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 You get what you give
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Location: Texas | I won't buy one that is still clubbed. If we have a baby with a clubbed hoof we start trimming and if trimming doesn't work we clip their check ligament. I don't mind at all if they had the check ligament surgery, but I do mind if they are left to be club footed. I don't want to deal with it. |
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 The Vaccinator
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Location: Slipping down the slope of old age. Boo hoo. | casualdust07 - 2014-01-01 3:24 PM
I won't buy one that is still clubbed. If we have a baby with a clubbed hoof we start trimming and if trimming doesn't work we clip their check ligament. I don't mind at all if they had the check ligament surgery, but I do mind if they are left to be club footed. I don't want to deal with it.
Ditto. Why knowingly purchase a problem? |
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  The Original Cyber Bartender
Location: Washington | NOPE... |
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Location: Kansas | No I wouldn't |
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| I say don't buy it. |
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Location: Central California | My husband bought one as a heal horse prospect 3 yrs ago. JD is doing just fine with proper shoeing. He did go lame one time but that was due to a bad shoe job, we now have him in rocker shoes and he is just fine. Now with that said we also had one years ago that did not stay sound, but then again we did not have the options we have today with shoes! JMO |
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Location: Albany, Georgia | Thanks everyone for your opinions. Exactly what I figured but I had to ask! |
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Posts: 920
| Had one that a lot was fixed with proper shoeing, was still clubbed just not as bad. Sweetest horse we owned ran 2D-3D never did bother him till he was a little older and got a cyst on his navicular bone. Still wasn't much of a problem just kept up with his trim schedule. A friend of mine had a 2D-1D horse than never had issues with his and his was bad clubbed. |
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 More bootie than waist!
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | There are tons of nice young horses around that are very reasonably priced. I know a few producers here in SD that have been in the business for 50 years, have dang nice stuff but hard to get youngsters moved. Look around in your area or start asking questions for where to find these nice young horses without dealing with something with an issue right away. |
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Pig-Bear Dog Lover
| Why would you pay for a deformed horse.. sorry.. but breeders put them down or give them away for free... no matter what the blood lines are.. a deformity is a deformity. I know it sounds harsh... but.. there's a ton of correct horses out there. |
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 Ms. Manners
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Location: Oklahoma | Agreed Swish . . . no matter the bloodlines, ability, parents' accomplishments, or any other factors, I refuse to introduce a club foot, however minor into my breeding program. Too many quality prospects out there without glaring lifetime maintenance issues at 18 months. |
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