Fraggle2
Well-Known Member
Will he grey out ?
Well my theory of a filly was wrong ! Beautiful colt born 11.30 last night . Pure bred Irish draught . Up and about. Pip did good again![]()
It’s possible, his full brother hasn’t . We tested his full brother and he came back negative for the grey gene . We will do the same with his chapWill he grey out ?
Thank you . He’s a smashing lad . So friendly tooI love his markings! He is such a smart wee guy!
Thank you . I’m over the moon with him.He looks absolutely cracking!
thank youI hope his better soon x
Poor Aria and Dash, I hope they've both picked up over the weekend.
Relieved he's on the mend (& he'll be pretty again soon!!)
I think it was last year that put off any vague dreams of me ever breeding when 3 people I know had an horrendous time. One was an experienced breeder whose experienced broodmares threw all the problems at her, after years of no issues
Hopefully yours will all bounce back and no more vets
I always think people that take short cuts with horses get away with so much its really not fair is it.Sorry to hear of your friends issues SEL. Did she/he continue after that year ?
I guess im a little frustrated, I see people who do things / manage things in a way that makes me scream, and year after year they 'get away with it'. Im coming to the conclusion that im too emotionally involved with breeding. A friend of mine has sort of hinted that i need to take a different perspective if i want to carry on, and to start being more business minded. I cant, they are living creatures and not tins of paint.
She did!Sorry to hear of your friends issues SEL. Did she/he continue after that year ?
I guess im a little frustrated, I see people who do things / manage things in a way that makes me scream, and year after year they 'get away with it'. Im coming to the conclusion that im too emotionally involved with breeding. A friend of mine has sort of hinted that i need to take a different perspective if i want to carry on, and to start being more business minded. I cant, they are living creatures and not tins of paint.
Cash is cheeky , but oh so beautiful
I'm glad to hear yours are on the mend, Asha. It is always a risky business. I think I'm done for now, and I'm aware that I've been exceptionally lucky.
I'm sorry I don't have photos; my filly has dark rings around both eyes, a dark stripe running down the base of her mane, and her foal shed shows a much darker colour coming through.
So will she grey out like her older 1/2 sister, or will she go liver chestnut like her older brother? I have no idea but we need to decide so I can get her registered!
I always think people that take short cuts with horses get away with so much its really not fair is it.
My friend used to breed and she had a rough year one foal died then one of her 2 year olds was so ill he was pts, it kind of finished her off and she stopped doing after that.
My other poor friend this year does absolutely everything for her horses they are her world, her mare was in foal and due August unfortunately she found a perfect black colt still born in her field a few weeks back.
She was devastated
She did!
Although it did shake her up having everything come at once. Its one thing reading up on issues its a whole other thing when you find yourself dealing with them.
Not only her though. That particular year almost everyone I know who had mares in foal had problems. I'm sure it was a statistical anomaly but it made me realise I would be completely under prepared for breeding (emotionally as much as anything). My neighbour had a little cob who they found was carrying a BOGOF and unfortunately the mare caught a virus at about 7 months and lost the foal - friend had said the BOGOF was inconvenient but she was distraught when they lost the foal.
And yet there are those who just chuck the stallions out with the mares, let nature take its course and all seems to go well!
I hope yours are on the mend x
I had been breeding for 25 years pretty uneventfully then in 1999 lost my homebred mare because her foal died before birth and was presented wrongly. It was coming forehead first and no legs. My wonderful vet sedated her then battled to try and get the foal out but in the end could only manage the head which I then had to cut off with cheese-wire my vet being exhausted. He was then able to feel inside and realised her uterus had ruptured, foal's bottom jaw had gone through it so she was put down. I said to my vet then that I didn't think I would ever breed another foal and I stuck to it. It was a horrible way to find out just how badly foaling can go wrong.
If I still had land I'd be asking you about Cash .....
.
I'm weirdly reticent to pull the hairs on such a little one, so I'll wait as long as I can before I do that.why dont you send some of her hair off to animal genetics. They will tell you if she has the grey gene
After a rough few weeks both boys are doing well . Got a lovely photo of Cash ( full Irish draught )yesterday which made all the vets bills seem worth it . He’s such a showman .