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Kyrin wrote:Phoenix wrote:
He’s been battling an impaction of a couple teeth. He’s been on antibiotics for a month now and he’s still spikes a fever now and then.
I’ve got two more weeks to try and get him better otherwise he’ll have to get his teeth pulled. They’ll have to go through his face which will end his show career and probably his stud career 😥
So we’re keeping our fingers crossed and praying he gets better.Why would it affect his stud career? Just because he had surgery on his teeth, doesn’t make him a lesser breeding prospect. I can understand about the surgery affecting his appearance, but not what he has to offer genetically.
Unless the teeth problem is something that was inherited.
Kyrin
But the genes for the “bad” teeth can be passed to the young. Perhaps that is what Phoenix means by the end of his breeding career… True! Some people don’t mind bad teeth (which is a huge problem in horses since they have been bred for their looks and strengths… but in the wild certain teeth would have never “lived” like they do in the domestic world) but others might.
Like horses in the wild with over and under bites would never survive, but in the domestic world even horses with these “problems” survive and breed which produce more over/under bites. That kind of thing.Maybe I’m wrong, but I think that is what Phoenix might mean…
Thanks all for the support.
He’s been a week without a fever. If he doesn’t spike a fever for three more weeks, the vet will finally let me breathe a sigh of relief.Frodo’s bite is good, this was just a freak thing that happens. It’s not genetic.
Breeders look at performance records. All he has done to date is halter. It’s a good start, but performance comes with age. He’ll be starting this spring if he gets over this hurdle!
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