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Re: [RC] over populated 'crappy' horses-example - Chris PausWell, I've never considered NOT registering my colts! And they usually get gelded pretty young, but they get registered anyway! To me it's a no brainer. There's lots of reasons why people want a good registered riding gelding! I ride a wonderful gelding right now, but have never been able to participate in any IAHA stuff with him because he has no papers. I'm not going to do that to anyone with the younguns who leave here. and as far as the uneducated, all you can do is roll eyes. My hay man has fabulous hay, but he and his wife put the "backyard" in backyard breeding. They really like my stallion and although I really didn't want to breed my guy their crappy mares, I really needed the hay, so the man and I worked out a swap for hay. They thought my breeding fees were outrageous ($500) because they had been using the QH down the street for $125 a breeding. ugh... The wife put the kabosh on the deal because they don't have any mares worth spending $500 on for breeding. I wanted so bad to ask her, then why the heck are you breeding them at all??????? I was ultimately relieved that it didn't work out. They would not have been good representation of Szybki, and knowing this family, these babies would simply have been out in the pasture untouched, nothing done with them until they got tired of feeding htem, then they would be hauled to the sale barn. So the last time I went for hay, the guy is telling him that his wife went and bought an 18 month old paint stud with poor conformatin to throw in with the mares. I asked him why. He said she just wants to put feet on the ground. Sigh...... ugh,..... chris You can't educate those who won't be educated. Bless you for trying! I too know a man who has stallions and mares and breeds them. Nothing is registered and his stock is the mother of "crappy" horses! He's always asking me about endurance and I've always been blunt. I tell him his horses would break down withing the first year of conditioning because of poor confirmation. He thinks me a snob too. Fine! I'm a snob with 2 fantastic endurance horses...both registered geldings. ===== "A good horse makes short miles," George Eliot Chris and Star BayRab Acres http://pages.prodigy.net/paus =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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