When field digital xrays were still quite new I had a sale horse (youngish WB) go through a PPE out of town with a local vet we weren’t familiar with. Vet said the xrays showed OCD lesions in the hock that needed to be removed. Buyer turned down the horse, so I proceeded to arrange with insurance and the referral clinic for the surgery. Buyer agreed to release PPE films to us so I sent them on to the clinic. I get a call from the clinic where both the surgeon and a second vet that did mostly PPEs had reviewed the xrays. Their conclusion…nothing on the films suggesting the horse needs surgery, not sure what the other vet was looking at 🙄 Then I had to go explain this to the insurance company
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I had a 5 year old Morgan/Saddlebred on trial and called my vet in for a PPE. Vet didn’t like the horse, found a scar on his back cannon that he thought might cause problems and made a big deal about the horse being nippy (recently gelded). So I passed on the horse because I’d had a horse who had a scar on her back cannon and it had caused problems.
Then, shortly after the PPE vet calls and wants me to look at a mare that a very good client of his was looking for a home for. She was a beautiful, well bred mare so I took her, and it was a complete bust. Nervous, reactive mare, couldn’t keep her sound, very hard keeper, wasted many years and much $$$$ on her that I could have been spending on the much more suitable MorganX. :-/
I don’t have the full story on this, but someone I know sent a young horse with lameness issues to a clinic for stifle surgery, and when the vets got into the stifle they couldn’t find anything to repair so while he was out they looked into the other stifle, too. Nothing there, either. I think the horse went on to be sound enough to ride, but I’m not sure how sound or for how long?
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