warmbloods feet

[jane22]

currently have a thoroughbred x who has been lame for 12 months and recently been told to retire him from competition so i'm looking to buy a new horse have seen 1 that i quite like , its a warmblood and the seller told me that he has different size feet which is common in warmbloods and that it doesn't affect him, does anyone else know of this or is your warmblood the same

 

[Slinkyunicorn]

No idea - my wb has all four feet the same size though.

 

[Ezme]

I have heard of this and think its down to the uh... rather close breeding of some warmblood lines. If the horse was right in every way I would ask a vet (not the owners) to evaluate it. It could be purely cosmetic and you could get a great horse at a knock down price but keep an open mind, as you know lameness is soul distroying!

 

[sywell]

As a breed warmbloods do have smaller feet on the whole and are just as good, but people are put off because they are different.

 

[Thunderbirds R Gone]

My farrier has said it is fine if front feet pair are a difference size to the back feet pair but not one front foot being a different size to the other front foot etc.

Should get picked up in a vetting.

 

[jane22]

thanks for that will e-amil the dealer and ask.

 

[Abbeygale]

I always was told to steer well clear of horses that do not have pairs of feet - so if the fronts are different sizes.

However, my sister has a horse that has two different size front feet and she doesn't have any problems at all.

But personally if I was looking for a competition horse I would not really want anything odd like that TBH.

 

[siant2]

I have a horse who has a front foot 5/8ths of an inch smaller than the other front -

i was told in the vetting that this is the one that I would be likely to get lameness issues with in the future but still passed the vetting. She has never had any problems with it 18 months down the line! (Touches wood)

 

[TicTac]

My mare has a odd pair of front feet and is absolutely fine ( She's a dutch warmblood with Hannovarian blood lines)

 

[debsflo]

my warmblood has one boxy upright front foot smaller than the other.farrier thinks she would have had problems if shed competed at high level but as i dont shes been fine and is 17 now.

 

[jane22]

seller says back feet are perfect pair he says abroad they never rectified problem if they had trained the foot he would have had aperfect pair. He said over time they will become more of a pair as they already have started too one is more upright than the other. only used to thoroughbreds feet! thin soles cant keep shoes on etc

 

[attheponies]

My little TB mare had odd sized/shaped front feet and passed this onto her foal (ID/TB X) never really caused any problems.

 

[jane22]

have you competed with your horse at all and if so at what level. i only want to do a lttle dressage and my daughter would like to jump and event occasionally we have to share a horse its too expensive otherwise

 

[TheFarrier]

Maybe you could get your farrier to look at the horse? Pairs of feet can be different sizes and a boxy foot is not the end of the world if thats where the size difference comes in. It is possible that this can be corrected though.