Wry nose

I had a foal born last night with severe wry nose deformity. 90 angle turn. Mare is an appendix qh as is sire. Luckily no trauma to mare. She was a maiden Spoken to the stud owner and who bred the mare and owns her sire. Has never been seen before.

Before deciding to rebreed to the stud (which the owner immediately is giving me a free rebreed despite the stud being deceased last year so using frozen) I am trying to research recurrence risks and genetic components. Everything I’m finding and what the vets say is that no one knows. Especially since it is extremely rare in this breed of horses

do any of you have any knowledge on this

I’m so sorry.:frowning: From what I understand it is just “one of those things” that happens fairly rarely and not related to the stallion or mare.

Someone with more knowledge than I have about the subject will surely respond. I’ve never seen it, but I worked for small breeding operations (one bred Arabians).

That is what I’m finding as well. I’ve spoken to the vet at the breeding facility and one of mine. I have one more phone call into a breeding speciality vet friend of mine as a double check. Just devastating since the foal was otherwise perfect

Actually there’s quite a few articles online that DO say it’s congenital. Others say congenital or environmental. It happens

in other animals also and I’ve seen videos of calves w/ the problem.

I’m so sorry you’ve experienced this, it must be heartbreaking.

Congenital = Present at birth. So, yes it was present when the foal was born.
I don’t believe heritability has been established, but someone here may have access to more recent studies.

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Just wanting to offer my sincere condolences.

I had a wry nosed filly born in 2000, AQHA Zips Chocolate Chip sire, AQHA Ima Big Leagurer dam. She was a bay filly we called Percy. We put her down at 12 hours old, when it became apparent that she could not nurse or swallow correctly. Our hearts were broken.

The mare went on to have several foals by several different stallions and never had a problem again. The vets we talked to then all agreed it was congenital and not hereditary.

Recently, I saw a wry nosed colt by Kissin the Girls offered on Facebook. He was a yearling and in great physical shape, so obviously he was able to swallow.