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Discussion on Gelding has snapping sound when he walks
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Morg1
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Posted on Thursday, May 5, 2005 - 10:08 am:
I have a 6 year old gelding that makes a snapping sound when he walks. I've had a vet look at him and he thinks that the sound comes from his pelvis area (on his right side). I agree. I hadn't really worried about this noise, because he has never been lame or off a day in his life. Recently though, we have considered offering him for sale, and people have been put off by the noise. That's when I had the vet look at him. He didn't see any lameness in my gelding and he said that it would be difficult to get ex-rays because of the deep tissue in that area. The only other thing that he mentioned would be to take him to an university to be tested on a tread mill. We will probably keep him before going to that expense. It's at least 4 hours to the nearest university with a vet school. He told me that he would inform anyone interested in the gelding that he was sound. This gelding does not make this sound all the time. Some days I never hear it and others I hear it almost every step. I have a friend that said she used to have a mare that did the same thing, and she had her her whole life and she was never lame. I was just wondering if anyone has seen this problem and what you thought of it.
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DrO
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Posted on Friday, May 6, 2005 - 6:48 am:
Hello Karen, this is one of the most frequent posts on this board. To read many stories about horses with a similar problem try running a discussion search on "clicking" and some of the possible explanations. THe short of it is that it is not associated with lameness.
DrO
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