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i am thinking of breeding some ponies i have got a small mare about 7 years old and a stallion about 1 year old. I am thinking i will just put them in a field together and next year i will get a foal. Is this how most people go about it?
 
Of course, that's what we all do.


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Donkey12, Just wondering why you are spending your Friday night posting 'prank' posts on the forum I’ve looked at your active topics and they are all 'jokes' if you don’t like horses or don’t have something useful to add or a genuine question to ask why waste your own time?! You must really be very sad indeed!
 
Alternatively you may just have a stallion with a broken leg!!!! Mind you at one he is hardly likely to know what to do with it!!!

Go scare some billy goats!!!
 
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Erm call me if you like, but aren't the majority of horses bred this way? Mares and a Stallion running in a field?
I know its not the breeding yards way but travellers etc do this and many many breeders who breed for the hell of it.
It is a more natural way, the way nature intended but science took over and it is now frozen sperm and artificial insemination is the thing.
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Yes Silver_Florin but I think the point Emily_and_Nessa is making is that donkey12 has just posted nonsense because they have nothing better to do. There is a big difference to herds running together and someone putting a yearling out with some old mare.

"It is a more natural way, the way nature intended but science took over and it is now frozen sperm and artificial insemination is the thing."

1. Horses are not kept natural anymore, so that statement is a load of tosh. How many horses live out 24/7 in the winter, so what is natural about that!

2. AI has enabled mare owners to use the very best stallion for their mare without the hassle of travelling 100's of miles. It has also enabled owners of mares that refuse to be covered by a stallion even when they are fully in season. It is not always the case that a maiden mare will stand for a stallion.

Natures way is for horses to live in herds and be able to travel miles in their search of forage, water, shelter etc. Horses no longer live natural lives except in places like the New Forest & even that is managed. In nature only the best stallions would breed, & that probably would not be a yearling!
 
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Yes Silver_Florin but I think the point Emily_and_Nessa is making is that donkey12 has just posted nonsense because they have nothing better to do.  There is a big difference to herds running together and someone putting a yearling out with some old mare.  "It is a more natural way, the way nature intended but science took over and it is now frozen sperm and artificial insemination is the thing."1.  Horses are not kept natural anymore, so that statement is a load of tosh.  How many horses live out 24/7 in the winter, so what is natural about that!2.  AI has enabled mare owners to use the very best stallion for their mare without the hassle of travelling 100's of miles.  It has also enabled owners of mares that refuse to be covered by a stallion even when they are fully in season.  It is not always the case that a maiden mare will stand for a stallion.  Natures way is for horses to live in herds and be able to travel miles in their search of forage, water, shelter etc.  Horses no longer live natural lives except in places like the New Forest & even that is managed.  In nature only the best stallions would breed, & that probably would not be a yearling!

[/ QUOTE ] I did realise the yearling thing was a joke/windeup but in my area nearly all horses live out 24/7 all year round includeing winter. Nearly all breeders around here run a Stallion with mares. There fields full of mares and foals where a Stallion has run with them so i can assure you it is not tosh. I have just bought a horse bred just that way, and i took a tour of the fields with the in-foal mares, mares and foals and the Stallion with friends. Lovely. The breeder is also getting rediculous prices for his horses, well rediculous to me. They are quality horses. My daughters instructer wanted the one i have just bought. Our mares have foaled outdoors and they have lived out with foals at foot
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What I typed was Horses are not kept natural anymore, so that statement is a load of tosh. In reply to your statement of the natural way. On the whole horses are not kept in a natural environment and anyone with a valuable stallion is highly unlikely to risk him running with mares. Yes I am sure there are a number of studs who run their stallions out as I have already stated we have an ID up the road doing just that. But it was your statement "Erm call me if you like, but aren't the majority of horses bred this way? Mares and a Stallion running in a field?" The majority in your area perhaps but not over the whole of the UK it isn't.
 
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