Climbing up and downstairs the first six months can ruin theirs hock joints, or develop hyp-dysplasia.
The tail should be at least long enough to reach to the hock joint.
Bone spavin is a bony growth within the lower hock joint of horse or cattle.
Bony changes of the lower hock joint are irreversible.
Its wrist and hock joints were low to the ground.
The tail extends at least to the hock joint and usually below.
It reaches to the hock joints but can also be short by birth.
There was absolutely no doubt: the hock joint was out of shape.
The markings are to be carried well up the forelegs and above the hock joint on the hind legs.
Lower thigh is long, broad and powerful with extensive muscling leading into a strong hock joint.