well mares can be nominated, yes we know this, but a
stallion must pay a fee for every foal that is to be nominated AND heir fee is
much higher to begin with.
,
a stallion owner could make deals like you get one foal i get the
other,
this is already being done and mainly by the MARE owners who want a foal
without the cost or work - WORK - of owning a stallion
costs of housing may be more on the stallions part but vet care
for the mare and foal could be more,
really? yearly (or more) motility and sperm count tests, SCID testing,
regular vet exams and care, I don't consider our stallions to be worth less care
than our mares, in fact, at times they can be more. We also include the cost of
one preg check with our full service leases.
the foal from these superior mares could also benefit the
stallion owners in advertising right...
which ads are STILL being paid for by the stallion owners. Have you checked
into the COST of advertising a stallion, or of the insurance, general liability,
additional care costs?
bedoine...hmmm
tracked foals thru the mare line and felt that was where the value is, i
know our best horse came out of a
great mare and a stud that was gelded because he wasn't very
good. but regarless of who the mare was bred too her foals were
sold before they were born.
Sometimes stallions are gelded simply BECAUSE they will make a wonderful
gelding - or because someone does not have the facility to properly care for AND
PAY FOR a stallion. To be honest, I am offended by the very notion that my
time and my stallion's sperm - AND 3 decades of experience and research - take a
back seat to someone's perceived assumption of the value of their mare vs our
stallion.
In the end, we put tremendous value in our breeding program into our mares.
They have indeed been slighted in the past. However, the huge disparity in the
cost and workload of owning a stallion absolutely deserves to be a shared
'cost". Morbid curiosity makes me ask - just how many of you who actively own,
compete and stand a stallion would go out and pay mare owners a fee - what,
$1000? - so that the mare owners could have a foal of their own? Thought
so. Me neither.
