Ok, I have a 9month old for sale that I would
really like to keep but I have to many horses to give him the time he needs, and
financially I need to cut back.
So I found him a great future, forever home. I
really like this lady and think she will be a great home for him, take good care
of him, and honor the buy back part of the purchase contract. She wants to bring
him up to trail ride as the horse she has owned for 17yrs gets to old and
retires.
So, her vet wanted a major prepurchase exam. Her
vet is mad she didn't get xrays. The prepurchase vet says he has a 10 degree
turn out on his right front and a 15 degree turn out on his left rear. He told
me he needs regular trimming this next year by a good farrier. He told her he
would require corrective trimming/shoeing.
Her vet, the one who is mad she didn't pay
for xrays and has not seen him, told her that if she buys him she will be paying
for corrective shoes for the rest of his life and he could "only" be a trail
horse and never fit for anything else.
My farrier says its a growth spurt and he
needs some trimming and another year to grow and there is nothing wrong with
him.
Any of yall vets, farriers, with experience with
weanlings want to give me an opinion for my own piece of mind. My
buyer is now scared to buy him, Is he a money pit that will require
corrective shoes for the rest of his life and be usless for anything but
pleasure trail? He tracks strait.
The vet who looked at him said he was amazed that
her vet could see any rotation in his front as it is so slight he didn't see how
it showed up in a photo. he told me he wouldn't skip any farrier visits for him
but he should be fine.
So does anybody with experience raising foals have
an opinion on how easy correction of 10-15 degree turn out on a 9 month old
should be? He was a little rowdy so I just nipped his hooves myself until last
month. He has only been trimmed by the farrier once. The farrier did look at him
each time he came and he was fine until the last growth spurt.
