I know the legs are bad but I cannot get past the spine. Has there ever been discussion of spinal deformity; hemi verts, scoliosis, fusion?
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I don’t think he’s chubby, I think that is his QH genetics being crammed into a body that has growth issues.
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I have only been following on this thread - I don’t want to give her a bigger audience.
But, for shipping I was thinking a regular trailer stall with some kind of sling arrangement. Leaving him loose in a stock trailer sounds like a VERY bad idea.
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Not only the spine but the fused front leg). He has such a disparity front to back. I don’t think his front legs are growing much at all. Of course his hocks are wicked straight which jacks his back end up. Yes, I think he has a kyphosis in his lumbar spine. I know they probably obliterated the growth plate when they fused the one front and I am suspecting the other front, they didn’t develop normally. His front legs just look abnormally short.
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I’m following this foal as well
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There’s a thread on the 3-legged foal in Off Course:
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Ugh. She just got another recip mare- OTTB, lame, ad was for $3,500 plus hauling costs. 
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Good grief.
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New video of Seven up.
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Link?
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On her page like always
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Is he home yet?
Can you give a short verbal version of what it is, for those of us who do not like giving her the clicks she so enjoys.
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If it is the one I saw she was at home showing his potential turnout options. Seven was not in the video. @trubandloki
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I saw a new video (the last of the videos from when he’s at Tennessee) where Dr. U talks about trailering safety & how they plan to trailer 7.
Stock trailer (bc it is heavier & shouldn’t bounce around as much as a smaller trailer?)
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7 gets his own box stall so he can decide how to stand/lay down
Gretchen will not be in the same area, she will have her own stall
7 is supposed to be making his trip Tuesday (today?). He had a bandage/splint on the left front to help stretch out the leg during growth spurts (and everytime he has a growth spurt that leg tries to contract so they have to splint it) but was ready to come off? I didn’t look closely but it almost looked like the splint was duct tape over a pillow? They did show a close up of the bandage.
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When I click it just takes me to my own FB page.
Maybe I s/b glad I don’t get to see this hot mess as it happens.
As described by @leighbo009 the “decide to stand or lay down” sounds like a Pipedream, unless he’s regularly making those choices unassisted.
In a stock trailer I see him going down & unless they block him in place - say, with hay bales - he’ll roll around like a marble in a can.
That poor baby 
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The one that was linked just shows her talking about how he’s going to be turned on on dry lot and they’ve paneled off a small area of grass so he can graze “with a friend - whoever turns out to be his best friend,” I think is how she phrased it.
My head so badly wants to meet my desk right now.
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And the area of grass looks like it’s roughly 30x30. I’m sure the grazing will hold up. /sarcasm
She also shows a dry lot with tons of other horses on it. Not sure what the grand plan is there…
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