What Size Stallion Is Recommended For 16.1

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Depending on how much it’ll cost for a vet through from insemination to weaning as such, I’ve decided to breed my mare since I can’t get a hold of a saddle during this lock down and I don’t want her turned into a field ornament as such when she wasn’t cheap by any means.

I’ve been looking at stallions and decided I want a Shire or Clydesdale, something tall and muscular since my partner has been looking at purchasing one of the two but for a safe one we’re looking at £5k or more, so overall it makes sense to breed our own, but we’re wondering how much bigger we should go in comparison to her, she’s 16.1 but very muscular and recently had a foal with her last owner and proven a good little mare.

I’m quite impressed with an 18.3 Clydesdale I found but I don’t want to put her at risk if the foal will be too big. She’s seven years old and a full Irish Draught.
 

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Aside from the fact that you won’t get a vet to do any of the necessary work, I would urge caution for using your mare to produce what you want. The general rule is no more than 1 hand bigger, but that would be with a small framed stallion, not a big heavy,
And trust me, it's going to cost an awful lot more than 5k to get the mare in foal, get the foal on the ground and raise it until it's old enough to ride!
 
This has got to be one of the most stupid posts I've ever read! You cant afford to buy a horse so your going to breed one and are wanting to cover a 16.1hh mare with an 18.3hh Clydesdale?! Never mind the fact that clydies tend to have horrible conformation for riding, they can take until 8 to become a reasonable weight carrying horse. Most are very weak as youngsters.

Your mare will be out if action for the last few months of pregnancy at least and then for 6 months raising the foal. So if she conceived now then it would be September 2021 before you could be riding her again. Thats if she didn't die foaling down, or the foal didn't die.

It sounds like money is an issue. Have you looked at the cost of getting the mare in foal with no guarantee of an actual live foal on the ground after? Then the cost of raising said foal to 8yrs? It makes that 5k look like small change.

And all of this is a moot point because no vets are doing AI thankfully!
 
Crazy, crazy post I'm afraid. You won't get the horse you want from your mare. An 18.3h Clydesdale ?? is not a suitable match. Unfortunately for now you'll have to accept you have a field ornament as I understand you're unable to visit her(?)
 
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I’ve said I quite like the look of an 18.3 but I wouldn’t put him to her if it put her in danger, as I’ve stated. Ive heard of 2 hands difference, 1 hand difference, I’m asking what people would recommend based on her breed and such, in no way shape or form have I said I WILL do so, her health comes first no matter what.

There isn’t money issues at all, we don’t mind spending 5k through some years, rather than all at once and then we have the ability to do everything with him/her ourselves.

It isn’t a crazy post at all, I’m looking for information on how much bigger the stallion can/should be so we can find a shire/Clydesdale stallion. We’re also speaking to the vets tomorrow but I know one vet is doing business as usual minus vaccinations.

She is still with her old owner, however he’s agreed that if we can put her in foal then that’s no problem as he breeds himself and has got her last foal still. We have also said we’d go for a stallion who would allow two chances for a foal.
 
No vets are doing business as usual, so you've been misinformed.

Vet services available

You could potentially go 2 hands bigger with a finer stallion. You cannot put an 18.3hh Clydesdale over a 16.1hh mare.

You are asking what people would recommend and we told you. Dont put the mare in foal. The fact you don't like that is neither here nor there. This is a ridiculous hare brained idea based on utterly flawed logic.
 
This account has been created by someone who’s used my email and then changed it from what I know. They’ve used my email and photos of both my horses off my Facebook account. We have a non-molestation order against her, which she is currently going against, we decided to leave it until we spoke to our solicitor who advised us to find a way to delete it
 
People tested breeding stallion shire with mare shetland. Research has proven that stallion size dont have importance for FETAL size. Fetal adjusts to mother.
 
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