Does anyone know of a stud farm that may be looking for broodmares??

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A friend has a mare who is just to much for her and can be very unpretictable to ride. She bought her as a cruelty case as she was literally skin and bone and has transformed her from a skeleton with skin hanging off to a really nice looking mare, Trouble is my friend is 5'4" and the mare is 16.2 and TB. I have no doubt she would throw beautiful foals.
She's tried to sell her and had a couple of enquiries but nothing has come of it. She is now at the point she'd give her away to the right home.
The mare doesn't like being left on her own.
Any ideas, my poor buddy is really down about the whole issue, loves her to bits but just can't cope with a blood horse?
 
No one should breed from a horse that is unpredictable to ride. If she is that bad then she really does need to consider humanely disposing of her I am afraid
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ditto on not breeding from her. The only option might be as an AI recipient mare?, tho normally they prefer sturdy matron types. Worth a try tho, but def please try top dissuade them from breeding.
 
May prove to be a lovely mum but the foals may grow up to have terrible tempraments. There are far to many foals being bread from unsuitable horses. The markets and sales are full of them. Sadly many of them end up in unsuitable homes and ending up as dog meat.
 
Agree with above, have bred fantastic foals with the most awful ridden mares, they have made fantastic mothers.

Depends sometimes if it is behaviour or pain issues. I am all for giving any horse every possible chance in life before going down the PTS route. Of course this is my personal opinion.
 
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May prove to be a lovely mum but the foals may grow up to have terrible tempraments. There are far to many foals being bread from unsuitable horses. The markets and sales are full of them. Sadly many of them end up in unsuitable homes and ending up as dog meat.

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Ditto this I'm afraid
 
Everyone has the right to make their own choices
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Personally I think it is ridiculous to *take a chance* and breed and see what happens, but I think far too much indiscriminate breeding goes on full stop, just my personal opinion
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If the mare is too much for the owner, and unpredictable too and she cannot sell her, then I seriously do think the only option is PTS, what else is she going to do
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You cannot always be pink and fluffy about these matters - she gives her away, she is unpredictable, ends up at a sale, gets passed from pillar to post, it happens so much. Simple fact is if she wants to ensure the horse's future (and this does not only apply to her, it applies to EVERY horse sold), then PTS is the only way to do it
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Harsh, but my view
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OP has not said anything about temperment just ridden issues. It could be ridden issues due to pain, or the fact that she needs time to deal with her past cruelty issues.

I agree there are far too many horse being bred for the sake of it, also so many unwanted horses/ponies. Its just a possibility this mare could make a good broodmare for someone.
 
I dont think your friend should PTS. You say that she "can be very unpretictable to ride" but then I know of broodmares that dont get ridden as there only used for breeding and are lovely on the ground! How is she on the ground? If she gets a bit "excited" lol then maybe try some training methods with her to try calm her down? It could be that she wants to breed etc how is she towards other geldings and stallions?

My old arab was a tart when she went over to geldings and stallions and could be quite naughty at times too so eventually we sold her on as a broodmare, unfortunatly when she was in foal, the foal was deformed and the foal died and so did my old mare. We had her and her sister, and now her sister is hopefully in foal too.

Its worth looking into, I would ring around some studs and see what they say. Good Luck and I hope she finds somewhere!

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Everyone has the right to make their own choices
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Personally I think it is ridiculous to *take a chance* and breed and see what happens, but I think far too much indiscriminate breeding goes on full stop, just my personal opinion
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If the mare is too much for the owner, and unpredictable too and she cannot sell her, then I seriously do think the only option is PTS, what else is she going to do
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You cannot always be pink and fluffy about these matters - she gives her away, she is unpredictable, ends up at a sale, gets passed from pillar to post, it happens so much. Simple fact is if she wants to ensure the horse's future (and this does not only apply to her, it applies to EVERY horse sold), then PTS is the only way to do it
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Harsh, but my view
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I agree! Don't breed from her unless she is 110%
 
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ditto on not breeding from her. The only option might be as an AI recipient mare?, tho normally they prefer sturdy matron types. Worth a try tho, but def please try top dissuade them from breeding.

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Using her as a recipient mare is just as bad. The foal she carries will pick up her traits as she will be the foal's role model for 6 months
 
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ditto on not breeding from her. The only option might be as an AI recipient mare?, tho normally they prefer sturdy matron types. Worth a try tho, but def please try top dissuade them from breeding.

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Using her as a recipient mare is just as bad. The foal she carries will pick up her traits as she will be the foal's role model for 6 months

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But if the problems are only ridden, then how exactly will the foal pick up it's traits? Mare won't be ridden, there-fore no copy cat behaviour. Ridden unpredictabely could most likely be down to either previous incidents or how she was backed [or rebacked if she's ex-racer] etc. Foal's have been known to calm mares down too. Not saying any of this is true to this case.

Not saying I agree with breeding from it or not breeding from it either....just making a comment
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Down to the owner at the end of the day!

I know of someone possibly looking for a broodmare, if that's any help just PM me.

A lot of studs will take in broodmares most say on their websites though
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May prove to be a lovely mum but the foals may grow up to have terrible tempraments. There are far to many foals being bread from unsuitable horses. The markets and sales are full of them. Sadly many of them end up in unsuitable homes and ending up as dog meat.

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Ditto this I'm afraid

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Yep, ditto this for me too.
 
Ditto Binky - how will foal pick up on the mares 'issues' if mare only has issues when ridden?

Also we don't know how bad the mare is - my daughter's old 14.2 jumping pony would be described as VERY 'unpredictable' and probably dangerous too had the person on her back been a nervous rider - didn't stop her winning plenty money BSJA we certainly wouldn't have had her PTS, we would have bred from her had she not been 19 by the time she retired!!!!!

In fact we have had a few horses who, especially when they were young would fit that description - a lot depends on the confidence and competence of the person on board.

Edited as I was quoting the wrong person!!
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Ditto memo - how will foal pick up on the mares 'issues' if mare only has issues when ridden?

Also we don't know how bad the mare is - my daughter's old 14.2 jumping pony would be described as VERY 'unpredictable' and probably dangerous too had the person on her back been a nervous rider - didn't stop her winning plenty money BSJA we certainly wouldn't have had her PTS, we would have bred from her had she not been 19 by the time she retired!!!!!

In fact we have had a few horses who, especially when they were young would fit that description - a lot depends on the confidence and competence of the person on board.

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Totally, agree, wouldnt disgard her yet.. she maybe should perservere with selling her, maybe have her professionally schooled, might help her sell. See if someone else could sort her out?
 
either get her schooled and produced for sale resolving the issues as you go, or MIGHT be suitable as a recipient mare (tho they tend to like ones that have already had a foal and a correctly formed rear end and inner bits). wouldnt choose to breed from an unproven (competition and ability) mare with ridden issues.
 
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Ditto Binky - how will foal pick up on the mares 'issues' if mare only has issues when ridden?

Also we don't know how bad the mare is - my daughter's old 14.2 jumping pony would be described as VERY 'unpredictable' and probably dangerous too had the person on her back been a nervous rider - didn't stop her winning plenty money BSJA we certainly wouldn't have had her PTS, we would have bred from her had she not been 19 by the time she retired!!!!!

In fact we have had a few horses who, especially when they were young would fit that description - a lot depends on the confidence and competence of the person on board.

Edited as I was quoting the wrong person!!
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Completely agree
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How many top horse's out there anyway could people say were honestly easy 'novice' rides?
My mare used to be described as 'dangerous' ridden, when in fact she just needed schooling and a confident handler, which she got and 6 months later turned into the best litte horse I've ever known
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She's also had 2 or 3 foals which are showing at county level at present.
 
Could she have been attracting the wrong sort of person for the horse with sale advert? Why not try her on project horses? Or send for professional work and see how she goes :-)
 
Thanks all for your replies, I did laugh at the pink and fluffy option as I'm certainly not that!
If I thought she was a PTS option believe me I would have no problem in saying that but she is not.
As for traits coming out in the foal well I bred from two meticulously bred and tempered horses and have the most difficult horse I have ever ridden with the most potential I have ever seen so it works both ways!
The search for a home goes on.
 
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