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A couple other people wrote me offline.  I think it has more to do with the environment (and maybe the farrier’s know-how) and gets blamed on genetics.  You have an excellent environment for building feet.  The farriers who were complaining live in areas where the horses are in mush much of the year.  I don’t really think it has much to do with the breeding J

 

Karen

 

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From: heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:04 PM
To: Karen Standefer
Cc: 'Sharon Hahn'; ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [RC] Raffles breeding

 

Gee, that sure hasn't been my experience.  I don't have all that much *Raffles breeding in my own horses, but in general have seen good to outstanding feet as the norm on most of the Skowronek-bred horses, including most of the *Raffles-bred ones.  I have more Skowronek through *Raseyn in my program, and have always felt that that was where I got nice round feet proportionate to the body size, with nice thick regular hoof walls.  If I think a family is a bit lacking in that department, that tends to be the direction I go in the next generation to improve feet.

 

Heidi

 

 

Interesting about the feet.  If you listen to farriers that shoe a lot of Arabians, you’ll hear them cuss the Raffles get for really bad feet.  They say he had bad feet and passed it on.

 

Karen

 

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