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This is very true.  People who don't understand genetics (including many vets!) will go onto a breeding farm and see that most or all of the horses have a particular problem, and promptly blame it on genetics.  When a problem is truly genetic, there is a segregation effect in population genetics by which one will see a pattern of inheritance--the numbers of affected animals will fall into groupings based on the inheritance pattern of the problem.  So, there is a "segregation" of a normal group and an abnormal group.

 

When most or all of the animals share a problem, then some management aspect is almost always to blame--in this case, as you say, an unhealthy environment for hoof health.

 

Heidi

A couple other people wrote me offline.  I think it has more to do with the environment (and maybe the farrier’s know-how) and gets blamed on genetics.  You have an excellent environment for building feet.  The farriers who were complaining live in areas where the horses are in mush much of the year.  I don’t really think it has much to do with the breeding J

 

Karen

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