You say your horses have jobs and have "proven their worth"?? My stallion is excellent on the trail and he loves children.?? I also discovered this weekend that he's a great jumper.?? All of the children ask to ride him.?? How is breeding because people have been asking you?to any different than me breeding because?a gentleman asked me to breed?Sonny for his daughter...who wants to learn to jump?? How do you define "proving their worth?"? Really, just trying to get an understanding here.
Lisa
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From: twinpinesmt <twinpinesmt@yahoo.com>
To: askavet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, Oct 4, 2009 2:44 pm
Subject: [AskAVet] Re: Stallions
Thank you! Like I said, I am not against breeding. If a horse has a job and is good at it he will usually have a place and will get a chance to retire. Or can teach someone else his trade. I have three retired mares, a semi-retired gelding and a burro sitting around on this place. Everything else is broke to ride and has a job. There has not been a foal raised on this place in 4 1/2 years. However we will be breeding two mares early this spring, one a ranch mare the other a show mare. Both have proven their worth and I have had people asking for the show mare or a baby out of her for years. If they dont sell they will get started and if they dont sell after that well they can replace the older ranch or show horses so they can retire.....
--- In askavet@yahoogroups.com, "oagrant" <oagrant@...> wrote:
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> I think the point being made about the show horses or horses with champion blood lines was that in this economy,it is almost impossible to sell horses and when people can get top of the line horses for practically nothing, it's the less than perfect ones that suffer. We have people around here (So. CA) that can't even give away the horses they can't afford to keep anymore and they are turning them loose in the river beds and along the roads in hopes they will be able to find food & water. The rescues are full and no one wants to take on any more horses because the expense of keeping them has gone up so much. So people get upset when they hear of someone breeding more horses. If you can afford to keep them and care for them properly, it's not so bad. But unexpected things happen - income drops unexpectedly, physical disabilities develop, etc. Then what to do with the horses (or other animals) becomes a problem. As much as we would like it to be so, there is no way to guarantee that our horses will be taken care of forever, but the best of the best stand the best chance.
> O
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