Taking on a 5 year old TB with slight pedal bone damage

[Polo Ponies]

I am considering taking on a 5 year old Irish TB mare with slight pedal bone damage due to cracks in her feet not being cared for and infection setting in quite badly. She would only be a light hack/companion eventually which the vet says she should be fine for. Does anyone else have a horse or pony with slight pedal bone damage and if so have you come across any particular issues or problems with soundness, shoeing etc

 

[xgemmax]

I wouldn't, you can pick up a decent tb for pennies anyway without an injury so why buy one with a problem?

 

[Singing Dawg]

Leave it to be someone else's problem!

 

[Meowy Catkin]

Do you have photos of her hooves? Have you seen x rays of the damage to the pedal bone?

If I was taking on a horse like that, I would be going for a serious barefoot rehab as IME that is the way forwards with many hoof issues, including cracks.

 

[Jo1987]

As above, you can probably take on a sound TB for free! Having had a couple of tb's, I wouldn't take on another without any known problems, let alone one with. Lovely, sweet horses, but I wouldn't want to be responsible for one again!

 

[Brownmare]

I had a horse with pedal bone damage at 5 due to an abscess and sand from the arena impacting in the resulting crack. There was a semicircle missing from the front of the bone on xray! He was sound after 6 weeks and never had another issue.

Many years later he got laminitis and the xrays showed no damage at all so it had healed completely