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Related horses are often in the same management situations as well--and assuming that something is genetic because of that can be a serious mistake, even if it is a common one.

 

Although one mother and daughter is not a large enough sample to differentiate, when you go on a place with a lot of related horses and most of them have a particular problem, it is usually management.  When only a few do (half or less) then there is a lot more probability that it COULD be genetic.

 

Heidi

My mare has a club foot or the high/low syndrome and her mother has the same
condition, same foot (I didn't find her breeder before I bought her).
Course when I got her, she was in horrible shape and her feet were awful, so
it could have been management too.  The breeder told me she thought the
mother's foot had been caused by an injury, but when Katie had it too...it
just makes me wonder if it is hereditary.

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