Cute or distrubing?

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Fransurrey said:
I'm afraid I have an issue with breeding mutations into anything, so yes, I find this hugely disturbing. Not a fan of miniature horses for this reason - it's all about 'size' and 'cute'.
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Sorry having got miniature horses i have to disagree. Yes there are people who breed for small but that is a HUGE presumption that all minaituire people do. Professional breeders DONOT deliberatly breed mutations into their program. Yes Some breeding results in Dwarfs, as do some other breeds develop deformed foals. unfortunatly it comes with breeding. Responsible breeders would then geld the stallion and not use the mare again. The main reason for breeding minaitures is to produce a scaled down version of a larger horse whether it be an arab, riding horse, cob, hunter type. It should have the same conformation and movement of that of it larger counterpart. Soooo within the breed societies standards there is no room for "cute"

Many professional breeders would not breed using the smaller of the miniatures, they prefer larger ones. The reason being you have an extreemly small mare, she will be unable to carry a foal healthily. If you breed using small miniatuire horses you produce "stinted" miniatures, with no length of leg or refinement.

There are irresponsible breeders out there who will use mares or stallions that have poor conformation, those that have bred using dwarfs.. unfortuanlty this isnt confined to the breeding of miniatires but all types of larger breeds too.
 
Disturbing : Let it be a pony for gods sake, not sure where they were but looked like it wasn't fenced off, put it in a field with its mother, she was stressing so much.

Its forehead was massive and looked HUGE and has a bump in it, the eyes looked too far apart, just strange
 
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