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RE: [RC] [RC] [CTR] coggins testing - Juli Jakub

It depends on where I am buying, who I am buying from, and what the horse is to do as to whether I get a vet check or not. When I was shopping for an upper level event horse prospect I had Daisy fully vet checked...x-rays, scoping, ect. She was a four year old. When I bought Piper the mustang we had a very basic check done as he was just to be my Mom's trail horse (now is my husbands trail horse). He was a rescue anyway...he doesn't work that hard besides a good brushing! Although I have worked him hard with me doing dressage for the fun of it and to make him more responsive on the trail and I have never had a problem with him. Be was a yearling when i bought her...I did not vet check her. I did a cursory exam including lameness. As a yearling I felt x-rays and scoping was a bit overkill. Thunder our new one...well my husband fell in love, I did the same basic exam on him and he passed with flying colors so we took him home! He has never done anything besides run in the pasture so I took a chance. So far so good. My basic exam is checking the eyes, conformation, I do a lameness exam by putting pressure on each joint for one minute...trot the horse out...takes lame steps for awhile something is up...trots out sound probably okay. I, of course, check cappillary refill, dehydration, movement on the lunge for overstepping ect, temperature, heart rate, and gut sounds. I also go with my gut feeling. Alot of stuff the vet would do you can do yourself if you have a good eye and some knowledge. My student bought a horse and got a full vet check...well she did not x-ray the stifles as that is not included in your basic pre purchase vet exam x-rays. The horse passed with flying colors...6 months later she was lame due to a lesion on her stifle...never been sound since...so much for the vet exam!
I think it depends on intended use, your knowledge, how much you trust the seller as to whether you should get a pre purchase exam or how deep of one you should get. I would still vet a horse differently if I was buying it to be a kid pony or a high level eventer.
JMO
Juli


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From: "Alice Yovich" <ayovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx>,<natrc4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,<horsesctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: [RC] [CTR] coggins testing
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 21:56:44 -0500

Because he was a relatively inexpensive horse ($1200) and b/c the vet check
was quoted at $250, they weren't going to do a vet check. She's had a couple
checked and they were older than they were supposed to be and had some other
defects that they passed up on. I think the original thought was that he was
cheap enough and he was young enough and he hadn't done all that much work
that it shouldn't be that big of a deal. Originally it looked like an
uncomplicated, inexpensive horse.The horses they had checked were about
double the cost. Enough people knew the history on this horse. No one was
worried. IT's just a horse for the kids to start out on.



I guess this leads me to my next question. Do all of you guys have all your
horses vetted each time you buy one? I can honestly say that I have never
had a horse vetted. Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've always been OK.
I've bought from breeders, dressage club members.I did have Freeley checked
out when I got him just so I knew what I was looking at.and that's funny
since he was my "free" horse, but the others I've just gone on sellers'
reputation.



From: Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx [mailto:Dbeverly4@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2007 9:24 PM
To: ayovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; natrc4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; horsesctr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [CTR] coggins testing



In a message dated 4/5/2007 7:04:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
ayovich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

The
sellers don't want to cough up the dollars to get a new coggins. Isn't this
wrong? They say they will give the money back if he's positive, but we
don't' trust them. Comments are welcome and encouraged, thanks.

Why not just have the coggins test done when you have the pre-purchase vet
check done?



Sylvia

(In California there is no requirement for a negative Coggins test in order
to sell a horse)





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