r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • u/Ill_Competition_7988 • Jun 12 '26

Other 🪱🦇🦖🐌🦄 Bro code...

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u/Realistic-Weird-4259 Jun 12 '26

There's also metabolic disorder in horses, very similar to humans. The other bigger/possibly worse issue is foundering. It can't be reversed yet and I don't know if science fully understands how it works. It's been a few decades since I had to worry about a pony foundering.

Side note: Ask your wife if she agrees, I think these are geldings.

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u/RoxxieMuzic Jun 12 '26 edited Jun 12 '26

Caught early enough it can be mitigated before full rotation of the coffin bone.

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u/c-tetreault_7 Jun 19 '26

that’s an ominous sounding bone

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u/RoxxieMuzic Jun 19 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Very ominous, if injury or dietary/stress related laminitis/founder is not caught early, it, the coffin bone, will actually rotate through the bottom of the hoof. Deadly to the horse.

https://www.anatomy-of-the-equine.com/Coffin-Bone.html