Another Vet Check

Since I have now decided to breed my mare for my next low level event horse, a vet check was in order.  I have always battled with connection issues and Ivy seems to go better in softer footing.  Bells go off, "Do her feet hurt?" I learned a lot last week about feet.  Apparently not all people get a vet check on their mares before they breed.  The vet told me that you want to rule out any foot issues that could be passed on.  Now I have seen some pretty ugly broodmares and I know they wouldn't pass a vet check, so why breed them?  I love my mare and I want another one just like her.  Sassy, hard headed, big heart, and very smart.  I love chestnut mares!!!!  I think mare people are truly special people.  We know how to negotiate, and never pick fights that will end badly.

Now I had a full vet check a year ago and flextions were all neg. but I never xrayed the front feet.  New vet last week and he could not see anything out of the ordinary.  After the images were taken, we could see she had an issue.  In her lft front she has pedal osteitis.  That's it!  I know some people would freak out, but I live in California and the ground is very hard.  Ivy was raised on it and the breeder never put shoes on her. When I brought her home, I trail rode her for 6 months over the same hard hilly ground.  Vet said, no big deal and that her feet looked super.  Nothing there that could be genetically passed on.  I wonder if part of her connection issues were from her foot.  Pads are in our future.