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tiffm9 Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2016-09-01 7:53 AM Subject: Club foot
Veteran Posts: 119 Location: Texas	Whats everyones experience with a club foot? Stay away from it or ?
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iloveequine40 Reg. Oct 2013	Posted 2016-09-01 7:56 AM Subject: RE: Club foot
Elite Veteran Posts: 618	I'm not afraid of one I just get the foot xrayed, check angles etc and work with vet/farrier to keep it level.
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tiffm9 Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2016-09-01 8:05 AM Subject: RE: Club foot
Veteran Posts: 119 Location: Texas	I got this horse out of a situation. He isn't skinny he was well fed but thats about it looks like he hasn't had his feet done in forever and he has a club foot been sitting for years and its chipped off a lot .
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sam.kappen Reg. Jun 2011	Posted 2016-09-01 8:52 AM Subject: RE: Club foot
Veteran Posts: 234 Location: Oklahoma	With proper care I am not to worried about it just takes extra work good farrier and vet. My best horse right now is a club foot and it she is still a 1D horse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZFrcQJPw8
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~BINGO~ Reg. Jan 2012	Posted 2016-09-01 10:16 AM Subject: RE: Club foot
Serious Snap Trapper Posts: 4275 Location: In The Snow, AZ	My mare is club footed. Farrier calls her about a 3-4 on a 1-10 scale. So she's not terrible. But I definitely can notice it if I don't have her feet worked on for a while. I keep her on a 6 week schedule and she does well on it. It can never be fixed, but it's been greatly improved with a good, knowledgeable farrier. Shes been running 17's on a standard. So I would say, it's not throwing her off much.
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tiffm9 Reg. Sep 2011	Posted 2016-09-01 1:00 PM Subject: RE: Club foot
Veteran Posts: 119 Location: Texas	Thanks for all replies.
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GrahamKayleigh Reg. Apr 2015	Posted 2016-09-01 1:09 PM Subject: RE: Club foot
	We had a nice calf horse with a club foot. He never had any issues and x rayed at 17 with good joints. I do have a 2 year old with a club foot because of injury. I'm hoping it doesn't affect him as well.
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lonely va barrelxr Reg. Apr 2005	Posted 2016-09-02 4:53 PM Subject: RE: Club foot
Reaching for the stars.... Posts: 12704	The horse in my avatar has a club foot. If he gets bad farrier work it gets much worse. With my current barefoot trimmer it has been such a non-issue that most people don't even see it. Bring it back slowly into the best shape it can be and keep feet trimmed regularly. With a club foot you can't skip or stretch farrier visits. I have had my horse xray'd every 3-4 years to make certain there were no interior changes and there never has been since he was 5, when a bad farrier had my horse so poorly kept that he (horse) actually broke off the last 1/8" tip of his coffin bone.
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