Abnormal chesnuts = interbreeding?

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Basically wondering if anyone else has ever heard that 'abnormal' chesnuts are a sign of interbreeding?

My cousin is selling on her 13.2 that she has outgrown, he's found a nice new home but his new owners vet seems to think his chesnuts are not right and that this means he is inbred!
He was vetted when my cousin originally bought him and he passed with no problems, no one can quite work out what is abnormal about his chesnuts, and his passport confirms that he is definately not interbred!

Anyone else heard of that chesnuts can indicate interbreeding?
 
No never heard that one before ! Some horses chestnuts are flat to the leg but I have seen them get bigger and then drop off leaving a flat chestnut again. Inbreeding - I don't think so but then agaian I'm not a vet
 
My horse has very flat chestnuts and no ergots at all. Certainly not inbred, I have all her papers!!!
 
Three of mine have flat chestnuts and ergots that never seem to grow. My mare, Miss P, however has to have hers trimmed by the farrier almost every time he comes as they grow and grow and grow......

I figured it was just because she was a cob. Drives me mad because they look quite ugly next to her hairless, clipped out legs. Her ergots stop some boots sitting correctly too. I can't use turnout socks and travel boots never seem to tighten up around them when they need clipping off.
 
Never heard anything like this before
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Thanks guys, I'd never heard anything like it before,
I can't see that there's any truth in it either.
 
My mare has small, quite flat chestnuts which shed regularly, and no ergots at all. Cobby (common!) types usually have huge great knobbly chestnuts. Look how in-bred TBs are but no-one ever looks at their chestnuts. Sounds to me like the vet has been drinking his surgical spirit!!
 
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Three of mine have flat chestnuts and ergots that never seem to grow. My mare, Miss P, however has to have hers trimmed by the farrier almost every time he comes as they grow and grow and grow......

I figured it was just because she was a cob. Drives me mad because they look quite ugly next to her hairless, clipped out legs. Her ergots stop some boots sitting correctly too. I can't use turnout socks and travel boots never seem to tighten up around them when they need clipping off.

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My Welsh Sec A is the same, but I just ease them off when they get too long. As long as you're careful not to take too much off you should be ok.

Edited to add: I was refering to the chestnuts being removed, not ergots
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