If you have been 'in the business' over a week, you probably have heard them all. When some farmers say it, you can believe it as fact. There are those that 'think it', which is not quite the same. They speak with forked tongue. It should come as no surprise that the end result is predictable.
Somebody has to pay the price for the person that 'fiddled with the feed bowl'.
To an untrained eye, the stock will look healthy. The schooling lines will be sluggish, the chances for early career ending injury has been increased. Soreness is going to show up earlier. A few good trips around the track and the pup goes on the disabled list. A couple of weeks or moths off and the cycle is repeated with a very short career.