colt - stud - please help

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aladynstreasure

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I'm looking to breed my colt in a few years when he is around the age of four. maybe sooner maybe later.

He has a standard pet ID passport and he is just listed as cob. which he is - there is no record on the passport of his parents, i dont know who his parents are or where they are, or the original breeder.

where do i stand in breeding him.. obviously i can just stud him normally, but i would like to have him graded etc, can i when i dont have background info?

if anyone knows anything on this please let me know, it would be very helpful.

he is a yearling currently. thank you.
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You may get some replies if you change your font colour, it is very difficult to read I had to stop reading as it made me feel ill. Sorry :(
 
Please drop that heavy green, it's dreadfully hard to read.

Why are you planning on using him when you have no idea of his parentage so have no idea what's behind him which he would pass on, it's a recipe for disaster tbh?
 
hes beautiful, moves well, and nicely put together, his background is simply bred with alot of other youngstock and sold out of a field of foals. so your saying if i hadnt have gone out and bought a reg foal i cant ever stud it???
 
I would probably leave studding for a few years to see how he does in the show ring or out competing. There are a lot of nice looking horses out there but people tend to want a bit more if they're thinking of breeding. Have you posted this in the breeding section? they will probably be able to give more constructive advice
 
To be honest i dont know how much you would get you could just advertise private but there are already lots out there. If i was to breed of my colt he has Very good bloodlines would be FIS tested and i would get a stallion licence hes has fab movement ect. and very good quality for a fell pony, even after all the money spent on doing it properly from what i have seen after spending around £3-400 on listing him as a proper stallion with good bloodlines he is fully registered and i have over 5 generations of his breeding i would imagine i could only stud him out for £150-200 a time if that. It depends if your just wanting a foal for yourself or making money i dont think you would make any money at all.

I also wanted to keep my mini for stud who would have been the same as your cob not reg ect no bloodlines, i decided that i didnt want to add to the problem of poor quality horses so just got him gelded.

I would see what other people have to say hope this helps
 
staceyn said:
To be honest i dont know how much you would get you could just advertise private but there are already lots out there. If i was to breed of my colt he has Very good bloodlines would be FIS tested and i would get a stallion licence hes has fab movement ect. and very good quality for a fell pony, even after all the money spent on doing it properly from what i have seen after spending around £3-400 on listing him as a proper stallion with good bloodlines he is fully registered and i have over 5 generations of his breeding i would imagine i could only stud him out for £150-200 a time if that. It depends if your just wanting a foal for yourself or making money i dont think you would make any money at all.

I also wanted to keep my mini for stud who would have been the same as your cob not reg ect no bloodlines, i decided that i didnt want to add to the problem of poor quality horses so just got him gelded.

I would see what other people have to say hope this helps
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thank you, hes literally just traditional cob, im not looking for a new business, i just wanted to see what people would think, i would like to have a foal off him in years to come and maybe stud him a handful of times. nothing major
 
i wouldnt use something that dosent have lines/competition record and proven


Cheap enough to gt a decent stud at £3-400 for a proven stallion with pedigree rather than a cob with a pet ID passport (no offence just the truth)

Get hi cut and give him a normal life :)
 
aladynstreasure said:
hes beautiful, moves well, and nicely put together, his background is simply bred with alot of other youngstock and sold out of a field of foals. so your saying if i hadnt have gone out and bought a reg foal i cant ever stud it???
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To be realistic then I do think it's very foolish to use something at stud that does not have known parentage (or rather papered parentage that is verifiable through records or DNA) unless it is an outstanding successful athlete with a brilliant temperament which it is possible it might pass on.
To use something just because it's beautiful with only a pet ID passport which means you can't issue covering certificates so that his foals could be registered is not really good enough in this day and age, I'm sorry especially if you want to be taken seriously.
Is this a coloured cob we're talking about, apologies if not, just that you said he came out of a field full of foals? If he isn't, why did the breeder not register him properly with a breed society?

If it's to be just for your own use then you will still be left with foals with no registered breeding of which there are thousands too many already. You will also restrict your boy's lifestyle tremendously as he won't be able to be treated like a normal horse; unless you have your own land he will be restricted to where he can be kept and might have to be kept always on his own; do you really want that for him?
 
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