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bay trotting bred 10 month old colt free to good home, to make around 16hh, nothing wrong with him, still on the mare and has not had any handling, i'm going to catch him on thursday afternoon. i payed £300 for the mare to be served hoping for colour but he's bay so no use to me,

just wont a good home for him.
 
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Gypsy Cob, maybe you will think twice before breeding from your mare in future. If you need a youngster why not go buy it? Then you can at least make sure you get the colour you want.
There are so many indiscriminately bred horses about, being sold down the line, going for meat. Yours can so easily go the same way. When will the message get through to some people to stop breeding irresponsibly? Now you're scrapping this young horse, and you're giving him away for free, not caring where he ends up. The least you could do is geld him to give him a better chance of finding a home and stop him being used to breed yet more unwanted foals.
Am I being harsh? Too right I am. I've spent all winter campaigning to save some ponies and horses dumped in a field near me to live or die as they can. The mares are all in foal. There are too many bl oo dy horses being bred in this country to go to uncertain futures, and people like you are part of the problem.
 
gypsy cob said:
he will cause i wont let just anyone have him:)
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You can't guarantee who will have him. Read through this forum. We have regular threads from outraged people who either gave horses away for free or cheaply and then get upset about what happened to them. I hope to goodness you do find a nice person to take him.
 
Tinypony said:
I keep deleting what I've typed.
Gypsy Cob, maybe you will think twice before breeding from your mare in future. If you need a youngster why not go buy it? Then you can at least make sure you get the colour you want.
There are so many indiscriminately bred horses about, being sold down the line, going for meat. Yours can so easily go the same way. When will the message get through to some people to stop breeding irresponsibly? Now you're scrapping this young horse, and you're giving him away for free, not caring where he ends up. The least you could do is geld him to give him a better chance of finding a home and stop him being used to breed yet more unwanted foals.
Am I being harsh? Too right I am. I've spent all winter campaigning to save some ponies and horses dumped in a field near me to live or die as they can. The mares are all in foal. There are too many bl oo dy horses being bred in this country to go to uncertain futures, and people like you are part of the problem.
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Ditto....
 
Tinypony said:
I keep deleting what I've typed.
Gypsy Cob, maybe you will think twice before breeding from your mare in future. If you need a youngster why not go buy it? Then you can at least make sure you get the colour you want.
There are so many indiscriminately bred horses about, being sold down the line, going for meat. Yours can so easily go the same way. When will the message get through to some people to stop breeding irresponsibly? Now you're scrapping this young horse, and you're giving him away for free, not caring where he ends up. The least you could do is geld him to give him a better chance of finding a home and stop him being used to breed yet more unwanted foals.
Am I being harsh? Too right I am. I've spent all winter campaigning to save some ponies and horses dumped in a field near me to live or die as they can. The mares are all in foal. There are too many bl oo dy horses being bred in this country to go to uncertain futures, and people like you are part of the problem.
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AGREE with this. Sorry but when I read the post I actually thought " that's disgusting" and I'm sorry I'm sticking with that. You have a healthy foal and you will give it away because he's the wrong colour!!!!! I'm shocked.

All the unwanted horses in this world and your adding to it. I'm just totally disgusted by this thread. Poor bloody colt
 
This can't be for real? :o There's so much wrong in that post I don't know where to start!

Ahh. Really hope he finds a responsible home!! And please don't breed any more :S Please?
 
Because if he was coloured and a trotter worth more money. I have a bay filly out of a coloured mare by Dennis and I'm told was best road racer for 10 years, was told they would like to buy back if foal coloured and she's a plain bay bless her, so I've got the bargain as she can out trot anything and she's lovely to look at.
 
I have to say I didnt read it at all the same way as the rest of you! I am a breeder and when you breed you do breed in the hope of achieving what you want - but it is always a bit of a gamble, even with the best of intentions. I have had twins aborted (when the vet has missed them in the scan) and it is not always easy to find a homozygous stallion of the breed you want, near enough or at the price you want.
I think GypsyCob has tried to be responsible, using a registered stallion and a decent mare - its just that she/he is disappointed and I, for one, think it is admirable they are trying to find a good home with the home being more important than price!
Give them a break!
I must be on a different planet to you lot maybe!
Gypsy Cob, I am in Hertfordshire so if you are stuck I am happy to have him and have him gelded. He sounds like he would be a fabulous driving prospect in my opinion. x
 
Bit judgemental ? Healthy 10 month bay colt, had a good start with mare. Would it have been ok if he was being sold then ? What if he hadn't made the height needed ?
OP is not sending it to market for meat, but is looking for a good home. The people who bred the last 4 youngsters I bought decided not to keep them. I bought them and was very glad to have such cracking youngsters.
Breeding from poor stock is irresponsible. If this youngster was bred from good stock, then whats the problem ?
 
i think the poor bugger may have had a lucky escape TBH...
At least he wont be in harness at 15months and pounded up and down dual-carriageways to "prove" his worth.... :rolleyes:
 
Thankyou tinypony. Now you have been brave enough to say it, others feel able to do the same. I echo your sentiments, and of those that follow.
 
alligator40 said:
i think the poor bugger may have had a lucky escape TBH...
At least he wont be in harness at 15months and pounded up and down dual-carriageways to "prove" his worth.... :rolleyes:
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Thats true. He might be lucky enough to get a home on a fab livery yard with no winter turnout and individual grazing on a tiny paddock with no shelter from the sun.
 
10 months old, still with his mother, unhandled and still a colt. Not a lot of care or time has been spent on him poor sod. Well he is just a bay, FFS.
 
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