Question:
I suspected that one of my two year olds was having a problem with malformed
teeth. Found out that he has a broken one, front lower right.
To my astonishment, my other colt has a broken tooth also. Front lower
right.
Reckon they are taking turns kicking out each others teeth out?
Answer:
wanna talk to my mare about that one? When her foal was about six
months old she decided to wean it. How may you ask? By kicking the soon to
be weanling square in the mouth and knocked her teeth out. Allie never
nursed again. Two front teeth were bloody stumps, and yes, my vet was
surprised too. Allie was lucky, it could have been her jaw.
Second kicked out tooth incident happened with the geldings, playing stud
boy games. Puck whirled around and got Bailar in the teeth. Baby tooth
knocked out and bleeding, he now has his permanent tooth but with a slight
twist. Horses can get a tooth kicked out.
Caps are usually out when my dentist comes around. I rarely find those with
any blood, kicked out teeth have blood. Plenty of it from the teeth I've
seen knocked out around here.
Why are you comparing bloodied tooth stories with what the OP stated?
Was blood mentioned? Nope.
The Doc provided a reasonable explanation for a "broken" tooth - shedding
caps. Why are you making a complicated issue out of something so simple,
Jody?
Should we consider you a DQ now - Drama Queen?
In the case of your horses, why are they so "spirited" they are kicking
each other's teeth out? Don't you try to get animals with a little less of
a mean streak to them? Kicking a tooth out is not as common as you are
making it out to be .. at least not in the herds I have dealt with.
Again, *no* blood was mentioned by the OP.
And you really might want to breed for a gentler disposition if you get a
chance. Or we will have to start calling your place "Jody's Boxing Farm".
My first thought was caps, but the lil boogers with thier rockem-sockem
rough housin' surely could chip or break a tooth!
That explains it and their don't-care attitude. And as far as the
question of why they are so spirited....huuumm, well they *are* two year
old, feisty QH/Paint. What else would they be if not spirited. Please note,
they are not kicking my teeth out. I insist that they act like gentlemen
around me. But they do act like teenage thugs with each other.
I was surprised that it was the same tooth on each colt.
FYI, I wanted to educate the poster that if the horse had kicked out teeth,
she would have seen some blood. Duh.
Your useless tripe aside, spirited young geldings play rough sometimes; not
that any of your old worn out overly ridden fleas bags would that much know
about.
