Beautiful Loved Knock Knees Pony Carpal Valgus Animal Postcard

zx430  A heartwarming postcard of this beautiful loved pony suffering from Knock Knees with details how the pony lived from 2005 to 2007 on reverse - comes with an other heartwarming postcard from the same era from the Horse Sanctuary - both are unused and mint.

Knock knees, also known as carpal valgus, occurs when the entire knee of the horse is set to the inside based on the drawing of a straight line from the horse's chest to the toe of the horse. Knock knees are usually accompanied by toed-out feet and with some degree of outward rotation of the cannon and fetlock.

In a young foal, the growth plates are still active in the long and short pastern, the cannon bone, and the bone above the knee. If corrective measures are not taken while the bones are in their formative stage, knock knees will become more pronounced as the bones fuse, establishing a conformation that cannot be altered.