Shivers

My friends horse has shivers and works really well on a high oil/low sugar diet and is doing nicely at Elem. dressage :)

Not sure i would personally buy one myself unless it was well controlled and my absolute dream horse at a very attractive price :(
 
I have 2 hunters that have shivers and it doesn't affect their performance one little bit. One of them struggles to walk backwards and can be a little tricky on one back leg for the farrier but once he relaxed he is fine to do and the other just tenses up a little when being shod, again once relaxed no problem at all, he's the one in my pic!!
 
My friend has an 18 year old 17.2hh id x tb hunter. Who has shivers. He is still going strong and has never been sick or sorry.
 
My 17hh IDxTB has shivers, has apparently had them since he was 5 and they've never got any worse (he's 15 this year). I can't feed him anything like competition mix as it seems to make him seize up, so hard feed-wise he just gets chaff and high fibre nuts (with sugar beet if needed) and hay/haylage. He struggles to pick one back leg up, but I think that's more because he can't support his weight on the opposite hind very well. He's ok for the farrier but he's got a good trick of wedging him up against a wall, and horse seems to know he's got to be good for farrier.

Can be a little stiff to work in when schooling but I never know whether that's really down to his shivers or the spavins he has.

This particular horse is on loan - have had him 2 years this August and it hasn't deteriorated - and it wouldn't put me off buying one with it if it was only mild. He hunts, he jumps, he does dressage, he hacks, everything.
 
Really good question. I know of a mare for sale who is absolutely fabulous (international quality) and she has shivers. I know they still want a ridiculous amount of money for her by our 'normal' standards, but her price tag is a fraction of the price she'd command if she didn't have the problem.

Very difficult situation :(
 
I've had my boy 10 years now and the shivers has only really been visable in the last 2 years- he holds his leg up and out - I probably see this once a day whereas before I saw this once a week.

He is a little awkward with a back leg when its being picked up but is fine once hes found a comfy position. He's still fine with farrier but has always struggled with rein back.

He's 14 this year and has competed dressage (moves like a dream), showing and bsja. Only reason he doesn't compete now is because I have no transport :(

Its really not a problem but I wasn't aware of it when I brought him but Im glad of this as it may have put me of and he's a superstar! :)
 
For me it would depend up on the horse and what I wanted to do with it. And the extent of the shiver.

Horses that shiver and seriously dangerous to shoe..

Lou x
 
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