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Just seen a post on chit chat and tack where a woman is asking how best to breed her maiden mare to her friends stallion. why ? There are so many youngsters out there needing nice loving homes, Is it just me who thinks there is no need for breeding especially from an unproven stallion, she hasn't said anything about bloodlines etc. but gah.

Cobs are going cheap as chips :( plenty of weanlings going for £50 (colts usually) why not offer one of them a home than adding to the problem Im not commenting on it as no doubt i will get jumped on for being a bully :rolleyes:
 
Maybe there is something special she likes about her mare and wants to keep the foal. If mare and stallion's conformation and temperment are good then fine.

If it's just another foal, that will be looking for a home in x months time, then no, not good.
 
MrsMozart said:
Maybe there is something special she likes about her mare and wants to keep the foal. If mare and stallion's conformation and temperment are good then fine.

If it's just another foal, that will be looking for a home in x months time, then no, not good.
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Hasn't said on it, perhaps i was to quick to judge :o If they keep it fair enough :)
 
Ditto Mrs M. Breeding for themselves to keep, then they can use whatever. But breeding to sell, if no pedigree it either needs to be fantastic or have an amazing competition record. Too many people breed from rubbish that has done nothing. We do a small amount of breeding for fun, but have changed now to breeding a foal for people we know rather than breeding & selling it as youngster. They pay costs, & have the foal at weaning. We make absolutely nothing, will only produce quality (stallion has to be high quality as well), but know the foal is going to a home we approve of. No breeding is done without the future of the foal being secured first.
 
You know I've thought about this a lot. Sometimes it's a beloved mare who is getting older and the owner wants "something of hers to keep forever". Sometimes it's something that they've wanted to do and think they might make some money out of selling the foal. Maybe they are doing it for experience. Who knows. I breed pedigree horses and the returns are good on the sales of youngstock so it makes financial sense for me to do it, but a lot of people don't see horses as a business and they only see the end amount of money they might get without considering how much it actually costs to keep the mare, let alone pay for all the breeding expenses, for 18 months till the foal can be sold.

Now as much as it isn't something I do, in a round about way I can sort of see how this sort of breeding continues. How many posters on here own a cobby horse with unknown breeding? It seems a huge amount. Therefore there is a market. It may not be a highly lucrative market but it's a market nevertheless. So perhaps another reason that people decide to breed crossbreeds. In the UK people aren't so caught up with bloodlines for the most part, over here on this side of the Pond it can be very difficult to sell any horse without papers/breeding history. People here like to know exactly who the dam and sire are and many choose to buy horses based on their bloodlines as they are then more assured of getting the type of horse they want.
 
i would have loved to have bred a foal from my beloved mare(sadly no longer here:(:(:(), she had good conformation, fab temperament, could do anything you would have wanted BUT i knew that i really couldnt afford to keep 2 and unless i had won the lottery it was not an option. the trouble is people dont seem to worry about the future.....
 
Personally i want to have a foal out of my super cob eventually she has an amazing temperament Aaron does jerk dam.
 
i second that some people breed from their special horse that they adore...we did (although we made sure we got a proven stallion to matcvh her breeding-Bernwode Brokat) we still have the mare (lucy) and kitty (the foal we bred......just because people aren't breeding from high class stallions doesn't mean they are going to end up as a welfare case.

i think your heart is in the right place and you were thinking about the bigger picture, not being a bully :)
 
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