showing a parrot mouth

[Queenbee]

Hi there,

My friend is going to look at a TB this week who has a parrot mouth, we were just debating whether this would affect him in any showing classes that she may like to do. I told her I would post on here and check with all you lovely, knowledgable people

 

[smiffyimp]

sure will, its a conformation fault and he will get marked down. Depends if you just fancy a bit of local fun stuff or whether you are a serious shower. My friend has a parrott mouth and she showed successfully up to county level, but in classes such as tack and turnout, as soon as she went in the M&M (he is a Welshy) he would get marked down.

 

[Theresa_F]

I used to show a TB with a parrot mouth and never had a problem. She did have to have her teeth done twice a year and as she got older, some major work to reshape the mouth.

Apart from not being able to do well on short grass, Delia was not effected.

Judges now days rarely touch the animals, let alone look in the mouth so unless it is so bad that she has an odd shape externally, then no one will know.

 

[smiffyimp]

I used to show a TB with a parrot mouth and never had a problem. She did have to have her teeth done twice a year and as she got older, some major work to reshape the mouth.

Apart from not being able to do well on short grass, Delia was not effected.

Judges now days rarely touch the animals, let alone look in the mouth so unless it is so bad that she has an odd shape externally, then no one will know.

This is a good point. My friends horse has a very protruding mouth - cant be missed, hence why he got knocked down

 

[Queenbee]

All fair points, thanks guys, I think that anything she does get won't be going above county level smiffy, so she should be safe there

Thank you, I have emailed her the link to this thread, so if anyone has any experiences of owning a parrot mouthed horse, please feel free to post on here, I know she is going to see this horse on thursday and she'd be interested in hearing other peoples experiences.

 

[Theresa_F]

A parrot mouth would not put me off a horse. Delia's three foals did not have this problem passed on.

The only thing I had to be careful with was to ensure she had regular good dentistry,and at 16 she did have some major work done. This lasted until she died at 29.

I had to feed hay when the grass got short and she found wearing a double difficult - she also had a small mouth with a thick tongue. I got round this for showing by using a showing pelham from Flyde - very neat unlike the rugby pelham.

As said, never stopped her doing well in the show ring as unless you opened her mouth, you would never know she had a conformation fault there.