CPTRAYES.....are you here?

He has quite a crest on him. It doesn't say whether he's a stallion or gelding. Probably has EMS I would think. What a lovely boy.

Sorry, I know I'm not Cptrayes. I'm just being nosey.
 
Seen this on another forum and I believe someone may be interested. I just hope someone seriously dedicated takes him on. Poor fella, sick and now unwanted... :(
 
I think the horse has serious metabolic issues from his shape, and he reminds me of my first rehab who was also an IR Iberian. He has to live on a grass free diet and that's not something to take on lightly I'm afraid. If he was mine, still unsound with those issues, I think at that age I might have him put down if I could not continue to look after him myself. The horse world is full of unscrupulous people who would take the horse for free and then sell him on or get meat money for him at auction :(
 
It is a thick crest but it's the breed I'm afraid. The rest of him actually looks ok. However, not typical of the breed to have metabolic issues although probably ought to be managed as such as you do hear many stories of Iberians with lami... I often wonder how the breeders have so many and yet never seem to have a problem with lami... missing a trick?

Poor chap.
 
tallyho! said:
It is a thick crest but it's the breed I'm afraid.
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I don't think this is true. Mine also arrived with a crest like that and a routine of drip feeding and daily work got rid of it completely.

However, not typical of the breed to have metabolic issues
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I believe that it is VERY typical of the breed to have metabolic issues when kept in the UK on UK grass. I have heard of lots which do not do well as leisure horses with too much grass and not enough work. Kept in Iberia, very often permanently stabled, and when out, out on dust not grass, they are fine. They are genetically designed for scrub living.


although probably ought to be managed as such as you do hear many stories of Iberians with lami...
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Lami IS metabolic disease, perhaps that's why I think there is lots and you think they are not a typical breed to have it?

I often wonder how the breeders have so many and yet never seem to have a problem with lami... missing a trick?
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Maybe because breeders tend to have breeding mares, which are "working" and tend not to suffer from laminitis, and young stock, which are growing and have a high metabolic rate and also tend not to suffer from it for that reason?
 
Normally I'm one who says they can find good homes as iv Got a free horse and so has other people I know but to try and home a horse with these problems is just cruel and stupid and after 12 yrs of ownership. I would pts as well. Poor bloody lad.
 
I agree that's my girl. That horse is a walking vet bill and the owner should keep or have pts. It is ridiculous to be trying to home a horse like that when there are plenty of young healthy horses unable to find homes.
 
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