GOOD GRIEF!!!!

[Rachel_M]

Yep. I would have thought so as well.


Something along these horses lines...


www.streakinquarterhorses.com/index2.html

 

[hatters]

Good god, that is very odd indeed

 

[Guinness]

Looks like HYPP-I thought they were trying to breed it out of QH?

 

[JM07]

can't see any of those pumped up steroid boosted monsters being overly quick over a "quarter mile" track...wouldn't outrun a tortoise!!!

 

[MotherOfChickens]

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no pics of them ridden,,,,,,,,

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they arent ridden, they are shown in QH Halter classes and this, ladies and gents, is what happens when you take away a horses job and breed to some peoples aesthetic ideals. happens in dogs too.

 

[Gorgeous George]

my goodness it's like body building for horses!

 

[Persephone]

That is hideous. I can't quite believe my eyes. Re the azoturia there used to be an Appaloosa X QH at our yard and he used to tie up a lot.

 

[MotherOfChickens]

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Looks like HYPP-I thought they were trying to breed it out of QH?

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most people are-some like the look

some allegedly also use steroids to achieve it.

 

[Guinness]

Well if it is HYPP it can cause muscle twitching/weakness/paralysis which I suppose is Azoturia

 

[silversox]

I agree with Dr_Spring. Take a look at the Belgian Blues and see for yourself. I've always thought they look gross but at least they are not ridden. The word 'steroid' comes easily to mind.

Gross, absolutely gross. And these people think their animals are beautiful!!! What would they make of ours???

 

[alleycat]

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this, ladies and gents, is what happens when you take away a horses job and breed to some peoples aesthetic ideals. happens in dogs too.

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Very true; very well said.

I think it could happen in some form in ANY breed, type or species where showing becomes THE competition, even if the bulk of the breed still have a job to do.

It happened with Shires and Clydesdales (what use is all that white feather?) and I think I can see it happening with some dressage horses, beautiful though they can be.

Seems to be a human trait.

 

[clipclop]

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It happened with Shires and Clydesdales (what use is all that white feather?)



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and all that height?

Shires were never supposed to be tall.

 

[chickeninabun]

Not sure if the below link will work, but try and look at the poor little (is that the right word??

) foals!!! Not like the little gangly cuties we have over here!

http://www.bertonqh.com/index_bqh.htm

 

[MotherOfChickens]

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I think it could happen in some form in ANY breed, type or species where showing becomes THE competition, even if the bulk of the breed still have a job to do.



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arabs and section Ds (and I am a fan of both breeds, before anyone gets sensitive!)

 

[Puppy]

That's been posted before. It is truly hideous

 

[chickeninabun]

Oh, link doesn't work properly.

Click on link in above post,
then click on Sir Cool Skip,
then click below picture, More on Sir Cool Skip,
then scroll to bottom and click on Foals.

 

[Weezy]

Good lord

http://www.bertonqh.com/images/janie_world_show.jpg

 

[MotherOfChickens]

jeez-look at those pasterns, apart from anything else!

 

[Puppy]

Some of those pics really are quite a sad sight

 

[RachelB]

aha - I thought I was going mad with deja vu (also had too much cider but that's another story) but no, here is a month-old thread on these exact same horses:
http://www.horseandhound.co.uk/forums/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/2289060/page/0/fpart/1/vc/1
I will also re-post my link to a good HYPP site:
http://www.bringinglighttohypp.org/
Personally I cannot believe that these idiots are breeding horses with a heterozygous HYPP gene. There are many other things I cannot believe these idiots are doing/thinking... think fugly horse for anyone who has read the blog!

 

[the watcher]

foals ; this is especially attractive

what confused me was that this a a colt (now one of their stallions) but the picture is saved as palominofilly! Oh dear

 

[ChestnutMonty]

Well the Americans bought out supersize meals - but supersize horses!!????????????
I dont think this will catch on!! lmao!

 

[custard]

Charolais cattle? Oh wrong colour, they're the creamy coloured ones aren't they sorry

 

[Shilasdair]

Imagine riding something that could collapse with paralysis at any point...how stressful would that be for owner and horse?!
S

 

[alleycat]

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arabs and section Ds (and I am a fan of both breeds, before anyone gets sensitive!)

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Section As - & ditto!

Ours was a beautiful pony- great character- bred for a tiny pint-pot muzzle and short face- in which the teeth were so overcrowded and impacted that she had to have major dentistry as a youngster. She would otherwise literally have starved to death.

 

[meandmyself]

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It is like Belgian Blue cattle

http://www.norbreckgenetics.com/studbulls.html

I think it is just selective breeding with QHs too.

Not my cup of tea either to be honest and I wonder if they suffer more with muscle disorders such as EPSM or azoturia?

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They have something called HYPP-

http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/~lvmillon/hypp/hypp_facts.html

It is just selective breeding. Not my thing either- a lot of them have awful legs too!

 

[S_N]

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jeez-look at those pasterns, apart from anything else!

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What pasterns? I didn't see any - just hoof straight out of fetlock!

 

[Enfys]

Gross. I like QH's, but agree that some of them look like beef cattle.
This is my boy........he doesn't look like these, Thank God.

 

[custard]

He's lovely but what do they do to make them look like steroid monsters though?

 

[PapaFrita]

He´s definitely HYPP. Read it on the Fugly Horse of the Day blog AND on their website though I can´t find exactly where at the mo.
F*cking horrible and IMO inexcuseable!!