Warmbloods and soundness

ycbm said:
This is the only study I know of. Median length of career of dressage Hanoverians is shockingly short at five years from first competing, but it's not completely clear without reading the entire thing what the reasons for it are. The abstract is also a bit confusing, suggesting that the horses are dead when the career stops but I think that may be a mis translation.


The full study is available to download, but it's in German and mine is nowhere near good enough. Is there a German reader on the forum willing to read it and tell us what it says - it looks very technical!?
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If you manage to get a translation it would be interesting to know more details, because there could be lots of variables - we aren't necessarily looking at horses that started competing at prelim, for example, and then retired lame 5 years later... they could have trained and then come out at advanced medium, say and then achieved 5 years of competition before retiring... quite a different prospect.

I haven't a clue, and with no warmbloods in my stable I don't have a vested interest either way... my mongrel has been very accident prone and the only horse I've ever had with papers is a section D :lol:
 
ycbm said:
This is the only study I know of. Median length of career of dressage Hanoverians is shockingly short at five years from first competing, but it's not completely clear without reading the entire thing what the reasons for it are. The abstract is also a bit confusing, suggesting that the horses are dead when the career stops but I think that may be a mis translation.


The full study is available to download, but it's in German and mine is nowhere near good enough. Is there a German reader on the forum willing to read it and tell us what it says - it looks very technical!?
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I think I found it, is it in Zuechtungskunde? By Friedrich, Koenig, Rogers and Borstel?
 
average age of a horse slaughtered in germany is 8 years.

i don`t consider id x tb to be a warmblood, the origins of id contain much hot blood, and anyway any horse that is half tb will always be for me a part bred tb as that is the dominant and most verifiable bloodline .

today very many ish`s are by continental warmbloods
 
tristar said:
average age of a horse slaughtered in germany is 8 years.

i don`t consider id x tb to be a warmblood, the origins of id contain much hot blood, and anyway any horse that is half tb will always be for me a part bred tb as that is the dominant and most verifiable bloodline .

today very many ish`s are by continental warmbloods
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8 is pretty shocking. I wonder how it compares to other countries.
 
blitznbobs said:
Do they eat horse meat in Germany routinely cos that would skew the averages a lot.
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The traditional Sauerbraten is made with horse meat. I've never seen it offered in restaurants on my visits over (mainly in Rheinland-Palatinate), but there is a local horse butcher who only sells horse meat at the weekly markets in town.
 
file:///C:/Users/User/Desktop/working%20files/WBFSH%202008/Years%20in%20Competition%20as%20measurement%20of%20longevity%20-%20Jan%20Philipsson.pdf
This link shows a paper from Upsala University on life and health of competition horses. Presented to WBFSH
 
sywell said:
file:///C:/Users/User/Desktop/working%20files/WBFSH%202008/Years%20in%20Competition%20as%20measurement%20of%20longevity%20-%20Jan%20Philipsson.pdf
This link shows a paper from Upsala University on life and health of competition horses. Presented to WBFSH
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You'll need to link it from somewhere online, you've posted a the filepath to where the document is stored on your computer, and no one apart from someone accessing it directly on your computer (as in physically has access to your computer) will be able to access it.
 
Ive always been told that an imported warmblood hasnt made the grade or else the Dutch / Germans keep them for themselves...

In my experience of owning 2 warmbloods in the past, they've generally not had the best / straightest legs which I believe often causes problems at some point. Its like they dont bother to balance the hooves right as youngsters so they end up with wonky legs.
 
I had a warmblood a Zangersheilde with the posh Z brand. He was a vets dream. In the 5 years I had him he did his suspensory, was diagnosed with DJD on his hocks and finally navicular syndrome in his front feet. I did not compete just a little light dressage and hacking, I believe he was jumped too early and genetically compromised. Also very stupid.
 
Really interesting thread, I have never owned a warmblood and not likely too after reading this thread. Warmbloods are becoming more common over here now and I must say I do know of quite a few who have had soundness problems.
 
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