rising two year old with rectangular knees??

[mayangold]

This is a warmblood x tb and I think her knees are looking a bit long and oblong. Im not sure tho, I might be worrying for no reason because someone told me too much protein in the the diet makes the joints grow too fast.

If they are growing wrong can anything be done about it now?

hopefully i've put images below..

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[nic85]

This is a warmblood x tb and I think her knees are looking a bit long and oblong. Im not sure tho, I might be worrying for no reason because someone told me too much protein in the the diet makes the joints grow too fast.

If they are growing wrong can anything be done about it now?

hopefully i've put images below..

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Hope these work for you

Not the best pics to look at though, could do with being stood up square and on level surface with no rug on. My horse is a WBX TB and has quite big legs, but so did her mum and her dad.

 

[Alec Swan]

I'm neither Vet nor expert, but your youngster's knees look absolutely fine to me! Generally, the worry regarding over-doing a growing youngster is the risk of OCD. OCD tends to present itself as a flaking of the growth plate, on a bone end, and it wouldn't actually be visible, I wouldn't have thought.

(Edited & Correction). I had a youngster with inoperable OCD in his fetlocks, and it was visible, and readily so, so I suppose that it will on occasions be obvious that all is not well.

Looking again at your pics, I'd say "Nice big knees"!!

Alec.

 

[cptrayes]

I'm neither Vet nor expert, but your youngster's knees look absolutely fine to me! Generally, the worry regarding over-doing a growing youngster is the risk of OCD. OCD tends to present itself as a flaking of the growth plate, on a bone end, and it wouldn't actually be visible, I wouldn't have thought.

Looking again at your pics, I'd say "Nice big knees"!!

Alec.

I agree with Alec He breeds, too, so he's not so inexperienced as he claims

 

[Goldenstar]

I too would not worry about these knees .

 

[Spring Feather]

They look normal to me.

 

[aed]

They seem ok to me as well.

 

[Rollin]

To me looks like a young horse with plenty of bone.

If you google equine OCD you will see plenty of pics of swollen joints as a result of OCD. Not like yours at all.

 

[mayangold]

Ideal! Thank you everyone, thats really put my mind at ease!!!