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  Twin Sister to Queen Boobie
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | The advice given on the club foot thread got me to thinking. It was a yearling with a club foot and everyone's advice was to not buy.
That lead me to the question -- What's the owner supposed to do then if no one should buy a horse with a club foot?
There's instances in which you put in the best breeding & best conformation. Horses that everyone would agree should be bred and sometimes you wind up with foals with club foot or conformation that isn't optimum, or some other issue.
Where does that leave the owner that's trying to sell? How do you sell a horse like that? Or is the only option to just put the horse down because no one wants to buy them and you can't keep them?
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Extreme Veteran
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| I think several people indicated that they would be ok with it if the horse had already had the surgery to correct it.
I have one that had a club foot, but had the surgery. You can still tell it was a club as the hoof still looks a little different. She had already had the surgery when I got her, and has had no problems.
I think going ahead and having the surgery done, and selling with full disclosure is the best option. |
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 Sweet Tea
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Location: Home of the World Famous "Silver Bullet" | talk to your vet about trying tetrycycline for a club foot. its cheap and you may be pleasently surprised at the results.  |
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 Been Blessed
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Location: Living in my Promised Land | Op- I see your point. Just what are the options, not just for club foot, but other problems. |
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 Accident Prone
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | You knock the price down until someone is willing to take a chance on them. |
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Been Blessed
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Location: Living in my Promised Land | Find out what the fair market value is |
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Expert
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Location: Willows, CA | Best brood mare we had threw two babies with a club foot. We did surgery on both without any further problems over their long life. I think that the surgery option is a pretty short window of time for it to work well. I have seen a lot of horses have a long productive life with this problem, but, the world is full of horses without it. I don't think I would buy one that is past that surgery window. If I did it would be way cheap. |
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 Ms Bling Bling Sleeze Kitty
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | lol I missed the club foot thread but I got my butt kicked on a weekly basis by a club footed mare... so I wouldn't count one out if you have a good shoer... so to answer your question, if nobody buys it, start it and give it a whirl..
Edited by cindyt 2014-01-02 2:50 PM
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 A Bit of a Grammar Nut
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Location: floating down a river | My husband's rope horse has a club foot. He bought him when he was 4 knowing this and has shod him correctly since and doesn't let him get long. He is now 16 and has never had any issues. |
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 Proud to be Deplorable
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| One of the best rieners I had was club footed never took a bad step and won me a fair share of money. |
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Sock Snob
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| I turned down about 40k about 8 or 9 years ago. Slipped and tore stifle but the old front end still sound. I imagine these days the 40k would more,than likley be like 65k. Dont regret not taking the money had a horse i paid 400.00 for hadma club foot,show,him in agha for,several years got 20 points sold him to,some rich people, he actually passed a soundness test. Owned a couple more in my life, actually i have a horse that his feet are a little upright and had a rear lamness perblem did a thermoscan and he hadmsome heel pain vet says get him to 55/60 degrees that the inside of his feet are different than outside. So that can work backwards also. |
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