WOAH!!!! SCARY-looking horse!!

It says on the website
"Ask about our HYPP Guarantee!"

What they guarantee your horse to have muscle and joint problems whilst moving across the ground looking like a hippo?!

I so dont get it!
 
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It says on the website
"Ask about our HYPP Guarantee!"

What they guarantee your horse to have muscle and joint problems whilst moving across the ground looking like a hippo?!

I so dont get it!

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Because looking so heavily muscled like that is what wins in halter classes and winning equals big money...

The "type" is so extreme that I don't think any of these winning halter horses can do anything other than stand and look "pretty" (not my idea of pretty but the judges). Like this horse shows they can barely move and would never stand up to being ridden.

very sad state of affairs...
 
Hum, well I've posted my comments on their guestbook. Absolutely disgraceful. Poor creature. Not content with having a nation of fat people they are now producing obese horses. (Sorry, not all Americans are like this I'm sure)
 
Well this is what i've said:

Can you not see that this horse is lame? He moves like a chronic laminetic, yet you post a video of him in this way to promote him? I pity your uneducated clients, for the reason that you are standing a horse with a hereditary DISEASE that you are guarenteeing in his offspring. I quote: "Ask about our HYPP guarrentee" I strongly suggest that the owners of mares read into this disease Hyperkalemic Periodic Paralysis which is often fatal - leading to paralysis, collapse and sudden death. The heart is a muscle. Without a heart, a horse cannot survive and HYPP causes parylisis and spasm of the muscles, making them larger than life. But what happens when this spasm and parylisis happens to the heart? Right - you've got it! The horse goes into cardiac arrest.. And dies. The Diaphragm is also a muscle that controls breathing. This disease also affects the diaphragm, the horse cannot therefore breath, and die of respiratory failure. You are taking a great risk by breeding from Kids Classic Style as HYPP also causes the exact opposite effect to muscles than we see here on this particular stallion. The disease also causes uncontrollable spasm and profound weakness. You can also see in the video of Kids Classic Style that he is also at disadvantage from the disease, as the muscle growth and excess fat on him is causing him to have laminetic symptoms, and I stress that this stallion should be seen by a vet before you loose him.
 
Can't bear those Impressive horses - why in the world anyone in their right mind would breed to a HYPP N/H is totally beyond me!
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One of the reasons I stick to my little cattle-stock QH's.
 
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Don't know what the hell they feed it to look like that.

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Sorry but it isn't anything to do with the feed. Impressive horses are BORN like this. This horse would look like this even if it was only fed grass.
 
I don't think peeps here get how big the QH show circuit is in USA and the money on it. IMO it is all money orientated. They don't care that the horse is crippled because that is "normal" as long as it looks a certain way in a halter and can win them big money and big stud fees. People WANT to put their mares to him because they WANT foals like that, that are going to win them money and get them big stud fees/produce more foals like that.

There are lots of different types of QH - pleasure, reining, foundation, cattle, ranch, halter etc and some of them look like totally different breeds/animals.

I don't agree with it at all but in all honesty while the judges are still placing horses like there and the big purses are still there this is never going to stop.

There is no end to the extremes that some of these competitors will go to...
 
OMG, poor horse
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My friend had 2 QH's ( I don't know their breeding )
and neither looked anything like this lad. Hers were alot slimmer, athletic, sound and happy .
 
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Impressive horses are BORN like this. This horse would look like this even if it was only fed grass.

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It's ironic, isn't it, that the name of the originating sire was Impressive, when his descendants are anything but....
 
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Does it only affect this breed? Silly quesion but looking at pics of horses who suffer all look to me like AQH

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Hello Mincingpie....great name
I think HYPP only affects descendents of 'Impressive' who was used as an AQH stallion....hideous isn't it?
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It has affected QH's, Appys and Paints - any of the breeds which have used Impressive as a stud at some point. HYPP is directly traced back to Impressive (who was a QH).
 
That video is truely one of the most horrific things I have seen posted on here - that horse is lame on every leg, it is just heartbreaking because he is probably a nice chap!

$3,500 stud fee - it beggars belief why anyone would want a horse like that - so so cruel.

To the US users, or those in the know, WHY do the American Horse Federation (or whatever it is) allow these horses to reproduce and show? I understand that they are in demand but surely SOMEONE over there must be able to see that this is just wrong?
 
The majority of horse owners, even AQHA members, do not agree with this. Petitions upon petitions have been lodged however in the past AQHA have turned a blind eye to this. More recently AQHA have stood up (under a lot of pressure from AQHA members) to do something pro-active.....finally! Foal with Impressive in their bloodlines now have to be HYPP tested and I am sure I read on the AQHA site a few months ago (although I can't find it now) a press statement that all HYPP H/H are no longer eligible for breeding purposes and if used then AQHA will not register the offspring. However they still continue to allow breeding to N/H horses......

HYPP needs to be stamped out once and for all and the only way that this can be done is to disallow ANY breeding from horses with HYPP with anything other than N/N.....or a more drastic action of losing the bloodline completely.
 
What is this " hereditary equine regional dermal asthenia (HERDA) which is carried through the Poco Bueno line"

Sorry, bit off topic. Never heard of it before and thought the Poco Bueno line was a good one?
 
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