TB owners?.. not TBs but appys and they are home! update 4/11 NEW PICS

[patandchickens]

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Unfortunately that would include the half-blind-could-go-all-the-way app and the twisted-collapsed-foot pinto

So I would suggest that the best advice is to reduce it COMPLETELY to just:

GET SOME HELP FROM A MORE EXPERIENCED SKILLED, PRACTICAL OLD SORT - IF YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR THE SERVICE.

...not only in the trying-out phase but in the SHOPPING phase.

Pat​

 

[welsummerchicks]

"Unfortunately that would include..."

Not with someone else more experienced along, and a veterinary exam!

Even if the App weren't going blind he's nowhere near quiet enough for a novice and children. Nowhere near.

The kid that's on the horse sticks pretty good (she's no novice either) and she STILL looks scared to death. They probably just popped her up there for a second to take some piccies and then just grabbed her off the horse. It's not a novice's horse.

That's the OTHER 'oldest trick in the book'. Throw some kid up on there in sneakers and make it look like the horse is a kid's horse.

And the other one - oh God. That is just the kind of thing that just makes my blood boil, to see a foot like that and the poor animal trying to stand on it. The poor horse. This is why I dropped out of vet school - because when I saw that sort of thing I would not - well - internalize my feelings.

I may be old and crabby, but I'm on the horse's side, at least. And that foot is terrible.

 

[greeneggsandham]

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I agree

 

[greeneggsandham]

Are you guys sure that first picture of the pinto isn't just the way it was standing or going to move as the picture was taken? The second picture even though it is not a head on one doesn't look the foot/leg is deformed.

I have to agree with the others get someone who is very knowledgeable about horses to go with you.

 

[bufforp89]

I did NOT notice the twisted foot either (although I dont know how I missed it!) or I would not even have considered them! I will not be going and looking at these 2 at all.

Also Im not sure where everyone got the idea that I am a beginnner rider or new to horses and will be putting children on the horses that I buy? Thats not the case at all. Thanks though for all the replys! Not even going to bother with looking at these guys.....

 

[welsummerchicks]

I know it's not easy to hear but horses have a way of making a monkey out of just about anyone - or should I say the people selling them have that way! And I don't want to be mean at all, but you posted these pics and I really AM worried for your getting a decent horse.

We can ALL - ALWAYS use some help spotting these things. We can ALL always use a vet exam to detect things. We can ALL always use someone more experienced along.

And we can ALL - ALL OF US - GET FOOLED. I know people who have been buying and selling hundreds of horses a year for decades and they STILL get vet exams and ask for help at times.

That is not a matter of how that horse is standing.

The foot is destroyed. And it's been left that way a very, very long time. Most likely foundered and the sole dropped, possibly due to an untreated injury to the OTHER leg, so the foot that looks bad now, foundered due to bearing too much of the weight the other foot should be holding up. That can be how it starts, or just, one foot foundered worse than the other. Then, the twist comes from the animal attempting to try and get some weight off the foundered foot.

This is not a new sight - I've seen this before - this is why I get so frisky and erudite when someone talks about 'gee, horses don't really require that much knowledge, care and attention'.

The first thing I look at whenever I look at any horse is his feet.

All 4 of them.

They need to be normal, weight bearing and pretty much match.

And if anyone sends me a picture with a horse standing in grass or any sort of picture where I can't see all 4 feet, they can send me another picture or I'm done. That's the oldest trick in the book, stand Ole Hookfoot up in the long grass and take a picture.

Foot, foot foot, that's what a horse lives or dies on. No foot, no horse.

And no foot, no buy horsie.

 

[babyblue]

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I didn't think the buyer was a novice, just that she had novices or children in the family. I could be wrong though. yet I do agree that there are healthy safe old family horses out there, but a whole lot of crap to wade threw.

 

[bufforp89]

welsummerchicks- Thanks for all the replys! I always look forward to your posts as you always say something worth reading that is well though out and easy to understand.

I will not be going and looking at these horses at all. Actually Im a little miffed that the seller would try and pawn them off on me as good solid trail horses knowing they are not. I would have had to travel 6+ hours round trip to see them and the fact that the seller was willing to let me do that without saying "oh hey by the way this one horse has a horribly crippled foot" is super annoying. Especially because I would have deff noticed in person and the vet would have too.

And welsummerchicks, you were right on the money too...I mentioned the foot to the seller and told her that I was no longer interested and then she casually mentions that it has foundered in the past (that would have been helpful information a few days ago) and gets corrective shoing. I deff feel for the old girl but that is to much for me to handle and obviously the seller is not honest. I cant help but keep looking at the pics though and feel terible for her.....

 

[WIChookchick]

I noticed one thing, that others hadn't mentioned.
Horses with "moon blindness/uveitis" it can be horribly painful for the horse, to the point they have to have special flymasks, and can only go out at night when the flare is at its worst.

Please keep looking, try a local rescue, OR leasing a horse..
Good luck, keep us in the loop!!

 

[bufforp89]

Here is yet another one...I am really considering this one, he is a QH/Belgian, 16 y/o, 15.2...he would be used for trail riding and trail riding only....The owner says that he is great to be around, former lesson horse and you can put anyone on his back....Any opinions?