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Fwd: RC: breeder ethics



I believe Heidi's inference - and we happen to agree - is that many breeders 
AND buyers will breed for height at the expense of other and more important 
qualities. One of the nicest Arabians we have had is 15.2; another was 14.1 - 
and by FAR the best is our 25 yera old at 14.3(accounting now for a little 
sway in the bacK!). but to breed for height or for color or for dishy faces 
or HUGE trot - without also and firstly breeding for temperament, soundness 
of leg and wind, and overall athletic quality - that is really, well, I can't 
use the word that best fits. 

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Geez, Heidi
Are we back to this again? I thought we already beat this one to death!
There are tall horses with bad conformation; there are tall horses with
good conformation. There are shorter horses with good conformation;
there are shorter horses with bad conformation.
I happed to breed horses with good conformation and some are taller and
some are shorter, and yes, some of my horses have better conformation
than some of my others in BOTH categories. I've never been able to
guarantee perfection in any height category (and I don't know too many
breeders who can). I guess that about sums it up for me.
Bette

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 2/3/00 12:45:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, smw@sos.net
> writes:
> 
> << Blame the fanatics of the fifties when everyone with two
>  pennies to rub together was buying a couple of mares and
>  breeding to the first stallion they could find - and then
>  re-breeding, etc with total disregard for conformation or
>  size..... the end result after fifty decades of that is a
>  small, fine boned creature that no more resembles its desert
>  ancestors than a toy poodle resembles the water dogs it was
>  bred down from....... >>
> 
> And now we have fanatics breeding the other direction--where ANYTHING that is
> tall is bred, whether it is quality or not, because buyers will BUY horses
> that are tall, regardless of quality.  Occasionally tall Arabs happen in good
> programs--and those tend to have the qualities of the programs from whence
> they came.  However, when height becomes a breeding criterion at the expense
> of others, the results are often downright frightening.
> 
> Heidi
> 
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Bette Lamore
Whispering Oaks Arabians, Home of TLA Halynov
http://www.stormnet.com/~woa
I've learned that life is like a roll of toilet paper, the closer it
gets to the end, the faster it goes. Smell the roses!


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