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| Recently I rescued a coming 2 year old filly. She's bred nice and both parents have some decent size and shape to them however when I got her she had a huge belly full of worms and was pretty malnourished. I started her on Blue Bonnet Grow Colt and power packed her for worms. Has anyone else ever experienced this? Will she ever grow into a normal sized horse or will she be stunted forever? |
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Location: Kansas | any current pictures of her? It might have stunted her growth a bit, but keep her on good nutrition |
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Location: Where I am happiest | Usually once healthy they will catch up. Especially at her age. Get her on a good mineral, are you feeding alfalfa? If not, start her on it and keep her on a good grain. After her worming did you give her probiotics? If not, do that and if it's been a couple weeks since a power pack I would give her a zimectrin and probiotics again. It takes time but be vigilent and she will catch up and blossom. |
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Location: You never know where I will show up...... | She will eventually get caught up.
My current futurity horse was extremely stunted when I purchased her as a 2 year old. When I got her home after purchase, she was literally no bigger than my weanlings.
I power pack dewormed her, and started her on a daily wormer. I fed her with my weanlings, and turned her out on pasture to grow up when spring came. I waited until she was 3 to get her started under saddle.
She's going to run in 2017 as a 5 year old. You'd never know she was as little & ugly as she was when she came here, to look at her now.
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| Thanks for the input! I think in my heart I know she'all be ok I just needed to hear that someone else had done it before to calm my nerves!
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Location: West Texas | She just needs good feed and digestible protein. Alfalfa will help the most. Don't worry. However, I would X-ray her knees to make sure they are not growing uneven. |
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| Prenatal nutrition and proper nutrition the first year are the most critical periods of growth in a horse's life. A horse that has not had good nutrition during that time period will probably not catch up as it ages. |
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| Be very careful though. In neglect cases, you can get them growing too fast once you line them out. In those cases, the tendons and ligaments can't keep up with the rate of the bone growth. You end up then having to slow the growth back down to allow the tendons and ligaments to catch up. There's a very fine balance between the right amount of growth and too much growth in many neglect cases. |
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Location: California | Yes we had one. We learned a had lesson from him too. He was awful looking January of his 2 year old year. I will attach photos. We upped his food to alfalfa/grass hay with rice bran/beet pulp/minerals and some 14% grain. Within a few months he looked like a different horse, however, to make a long story short when I went to start him he was constantly tripping. After a few months I decided it wasn't normal and had him vetted. He was diagnosed with Wobblers Syndrome and is now a permanent pasture pet. It is possible it wasn't us that caused it but my gut says we accidentally caused his growth too much too quickly and his spinal column didn't grow enough for his spinal cord. Lesson learned for sure. I wish you the best of luck, just be careful!
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Location: Arkansas | little_bug - 2016-12-24 11:44 AM
Yes we had one. We learned a had lesson from him too. He was awful looking January of his 2 year old year. I will attach photos. We upped his food to alfalfa/grass hay with rice bran/beet pulp/minerals and some 14% grain. Within a few months he looked like a different horse, however, to make a long story short when I went to start him he was constantly tripping. After a few months I decided it wasn't normal and had him vetted. He was diagnosed with Wobblers Syndrome and is now a permanent pasture pet. It is possible it wasn't us that caused it but my gut says we accidentally caused his growth too much too quickly and his spinal column didn't grow enough for his spinal cord. Lesson learned for sure. I wish you the best of luck, just be careful!
That's terrible, but at least you gave him a home no matter what. Good for you |
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| I would start her on Blue Bonnet Growth and Development. Add Align. Good Hay. I feed Alfalfa/Timothy |
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| That is pretty close to what my little girl looks like now! She is so sweet and has a forever home regardless of whether or not she grows and is useable. |
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Location: Idaho | How is she bred? Mine was like that, he's mostly working cow horse/reining bred. I pulled him off the pasture at 11 months old. He was tiny as a yearling going into his 2 year old year, people thought he was 6 months old! Kept up with good nutrition, He didn't really hit a growth spurt until he was about three, I prayed that he would push 15 hands.
He is now 5 1/2 years old and standing 15.1 and stout! I have a filling this one will catch up. When I worked cutting horses down in Texas their 2-3 year olds were TINY, I felt so bad jumping on them but once they hit about 5 years old and got turned out to pasture they turned into monsters lol I think a lot of it has to do with their breeding.
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| DashNDustem - 2016-12-25 10:21 AM
How is she bred? Mine was like that, he's mostly working cow horse/reining bred. I pulled him off the pasture at 11 months old. He was tiny as a yearling going into his 2 year old year, people thought he was 6 months old! Kept up with good nutrition, He didn't really hit a growth spurt until he was about three, I prayed that he would push 15 hands.
He is now 5 1/2 years old and standing 15.1 and stout! I have a filling this one will catch up. When I worked cutting horses down in Texas their 2-3 year olds were TINY, I felt so bad jumping on them but once they hit about 5 years old and got turned out to pasture they turned into monsters lol I think a lot of it has to do with their breeding.
She's Impressive way back and Doc O Lena but those are the only names I would consider recognizable on her papers. I'lol admit she was an impulse buy but she is just so sweet! |
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Location: Florida | Worm, 2 weeks worm, and then good feed and hay. He will be caught up in no time.
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| If you decide to buy something under 2yo that has mane and tail longer than normal and a bad hair do along with pot gut and/or ribby ...
You can bet it will remain stunted/dwarfed forever ...
99% of the time with horses ...
you get what you are looking at ..
If breeding or feeding doesn't have anything to do with size ..
then there would not be any 14.1 hh famous studs breeding mares ..
lol
The other thing you have to look at long term is ...
what kind of bone, joint. feet problems are going to show up
when you start training or running one hard ...
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My coming three year old is barely pushing 14 hands. I bred her dam and raised her so I know for a fact that she has had great nutrition. I love seeing all these success stories with small babies. I pray everyday that mine makes it to 15 hands. I keep telling her that she better grow because regardless, she is still going to have to carry my fat butt around some barrels! LOL! To the OP, your filly will catch up. Don't overfeed her but just put her on a good feed program. She will be big and strong in no time! |
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| my june 15th yearling is 14 hands. 1 also bought a 2 year old 14.2 as a 2 year old now 16.1 |
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| I had one that wasnt fed very well her yearling year, courtesy of my a-hole parents...... When I got her as a long yearling she was maybe 13.3. Pot bellied, long hair and UGLY! She didnt stop growing until she was 7 and now stands 15.3 and is BEAUTIFUL! Noone can believe its the same horse. The only ones that know are the ones that were around when I brought her home. Theres still hope. Good feed and deworming program will do wonders for her! |
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| Thank you all for the info! I'm confident we can get her feeling better and back on the right track! Almost home from traveling for Christmas and I'll post some pictures of what I'm working with when I get back to my computer at the house! Hey btw y'all rock!  |
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