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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RockinGR - 2017-01-30 2:21 PM Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:12 PM Hes a good looking fella, how big of a fella is he and whats his breeding? Maybe once you get a different cinch on him he'll free up some, he just looks worried to me..  He's bigger than he looks (IMO ). He is probably 15.2-3hh. Not a brickhouse built horse, but he's not a bean pole either. Really really balanced, which is a stamp from daddy. He profiles almost exactly like his half sister, and he runs just like her too. She was on the hot/flakey side, but could run the prettiest, most honest pattern you've ever seen, every time.
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:26 PM
RockinGR - 2017-01-30 2:21 PM Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:12 PM Hes a good looking fella, how big of a fella is he and whats his breeding? Maybe once you get a different cinch on him he'll free up some, he just looks worried to me.. He's bigger than he looks (IMO ). He is probably 15.2-3hh. Not a brickhouse built horse, but he's not a bean pole either. Really really balanced, which is a stamp from daddy. He profiles almost exactly like his half sister, and he runs just like her too. She was on the hot/flakey side, but could run the prettiest, most honest pattern you've ever seen, every time.
LOL, I'm 5'1"...with my boots on...if I stand up real straight.
That's me in my avatar pic, with my 15.1hh gelding. I was 29 when that was taken, so I'm starting to lose hope that I'll grow anymore.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RockinGR - 2017-01-30 2:29 PM Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:26 PM RockinGR - 2017-01-30 2:21 PM Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:12 PM Hes a good looking fella, how big of a fella is he and whats his breeding? Maybe once you get a different cinch on him he'll free up some, he just looks worried to me.. He's bigger than he looks (IMO ). He is probably 15.2-3hh. Not a brickhouse built horse, but he's not a bean pole either. Really really balanced, which is a stamp from daddy. He profiles almost exactly like his half sister, and he runs just like her too. She was on the hot/flakey side, but could run the prettiest, most honest pattern you've ever seen, every time. LOL, I'm 5'1"...with my boots on...if I stand up real straight. That's me in my avatar pic, with my 15.1hh gelding. I was 29 when that was taken, so I'm starting to lose hope that I'll grow anymore.
Oh my gosh you are a tiny little thing, thats why your boy looks so huge to me. Im 5'7 so thats a big different to me. LOL no hope for you getting anymore hight on you.. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | I'm 5'3", 5'4" on a good day and I struggle to get on a 15 hand colt lol, either that or I'm getting old! I'd need a ladder for him |
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Location: Silver Lake, MN | I'm not any help but I use that same cinch and am going to look into switching cause I do think they pull some.
I love your gelding and love even more he is an appy...bet people aren't expecting that one!! I also would check into PSSM as quite a few appaloosas are positive. After having one its one of the first things I check now. |
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Location: Oklahoma | Do a massage if you know how or have someone give him a massage. You will be amazed what that will tell you. Muscles are connected and it will give you a better idea as far as what is going on or what to check. It is something simple and a great base point on where to start. Even if you think it is this area but when a different muscle is massage and by the horses reaction it like oh wow it actually there not where it was showing. hope I explained it right :)) good luck! |
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Location: Arkansas | Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:26 PM
RockinGR - 2017-01-30 2:21 PM Southtxponygirl - 2017-01-30 2:12 PM Hes a good looking fella, how big of a fella is he and whats his breeding? Maybe once you get a different cinch on him he'll free up some, he just looks worried to me.. He's bigger than he looks (IMO ). He is probably 15.2-3hh. Not a brickhouse built horse, but he's not a bean pole either. Really really balanced, which is a stamp from daddy. He profiles almost exactly like his half sister, and he runs just like her too. She was on the hot/flakey side, but could run the prettiest, most honest pattern you've ever seen, every time.
That's what I was thinking!!! Cause he looks HUGE to me when you're beside him. Very pretty boy  |
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Location: Smack Dab in the Middle | 2/24 Update.
I changed cinches from the airflex to an alpaca wool string cinch. He does seem to like it better, and has a much calmer reaction to it, so yay there!
I took him to Oklahoma State on Monday and had a full lameness done on him, including the lameness locator. He showed a push-off lameness in his rear, more notable in his left than right. Also had push off lameness in his right front, but not as significant as his rear.
They did two blocks, one low, one high. Improved on the higher block 60+%. Blocked the right heel and got some improvement there as well. Ordered rads. He had some sign of osteo-arthritis in his stifles, but not out of the normal for his age. Decided to inject those. He had very little going on in his right front heel. Navicular bone was a little oddly shaped, but the surgeon thought it actually looked fairly good. He wanted to wait to inject his front end to see if the stifle injections helped allieviate the front end, especially since it was a push off lameness not an impact lameness.
Going to a jackpot tonight, so we'll see how he feels... |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Glad to hear things are looking up you and your boy |
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Location: Arkansas | Come back and let us know how y'all did---good luck |
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