Broken Coffin Bones Common in Warmblood Foals

A recent study of coffin bone (distal phalanx) fractures in foals found they were far from rare. In fact, all 20 of the Warmblood foals in the study (all foals on a particular farm in one season) had fractures at some point in their first year of life, for a whopping total of 61 fractures recorded. At the 2009 American Association of Equine Practitioners convention, held Dec. 6-9...

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