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[RC] Neonatal Cleft Palate......Not - Rides 2 FarI was watching her nursing, and when she stopped, a flood of milk came pouring back out of both nostrils. I bought a horse from a local woman who liked to go to the big breed sales and buy. She bought this horse for her boyfriend but he decided to switch to QHorse a year later. She knew I liked to buy and sell a little and called me up. I looked at him and he blew me away. He was a *true* 15.2 with excellent bone. Beautiful conformation. 5 years old and acted like a dead broke veteran. LOVED him. I don't go to sales, because I know that if I have a horse I can't stand not to tell people what's wrong with them to their face...but seems like it would be easy enough to send the ones with hidden problems to a sale and "let the buyer beware". In this case I thought she'd gotten lucky. He was a true find...super bred, great mind, great body. Thought I was gonna make a killin' on him. Noticed one small thing...he had a tiny green liquid trail trickling out of his nostrils, but it wasn't snot. He wasn't sick. Took him home. He'd eat, then give a big deep cough...like old men do in the morning. Then was fine. Never a sick sounding cough. Went riding and he stopped to drink at a red clay colored mudhole. I leaned over for something and saw the strangest thing. Every time he swallowed, the water came out both nostrils. It just pumped out with each gulp. There went my profits. I was worried about EPM which I'd heard could cause paralysis in the throat area. Kept him 6 months or so and no change. Someone said he may have a tiny repairable hole in his palatte. Finally sold him cheap to a heavyweight friend to leave her enough money to get it fixed and still enjoy him. They scoped him and found nothing. He was a great horse, he just leaked. After drinking or eating he'd have to cough deep a little. Guess he got stuff in his windpipe. He's now a pleasure horse for a whole family that loves him. Angie ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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