In a message dated 8/10/2007 4:27:58 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
lazykfarm@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
I wish
people wouldn't immediately point fingers at so-called "backyard
breeders" as the source of unwanted horses. Has anyone done
the research to show that backyard breeders flood the market?
Seems to me that we just heard about loads of unwanted well-bred,
well-trained horses that may very well have come from "professional
breeders" who make their living creating horse after horse after
horse.
uh- you are SO RIGHT - and you peeps would be shocked to hear who
some of the BIGGEST offenders of overproducing are, and some of them produce so
much JUNK I am shocked they can HIDE them - but hide them they do. I know - I
got one from one big, highly respected breeder. NO names here and don't check my
name under AHA because this mare was moved on before I ever transferred her due
to her parrot mouth, inability to produce without expelling her UTERUS and her
horrific rear end - that sucker wouldn't push a penny up a hill. Too bad too -
she had a sweet face and a sweeter temperament.
Don't blame the people who produce a foal or two every year or two, sell
one or two and keep one or two. Take a closer look at the big ranches of "elite"
horses, producing hundreds of foals (between their own mares and outside
mares)year after year, dumping them year after year, most without papers, some
for a few hundred $$. In the end, even the ones they keep as "champions" (you
know, halter, EP etc) end up doing not much, cast aside, and ultimately at those
auctions, because they have not been bred or trained to do anything useful - and
the "industry " doesn't care because it is so focused on the greased up, clipped
up trotting fool of a national champion EP or halter horse, while that horse's
siblings go on down the road to auction or worse. Lots of trees to bark up
but I think this "backyard owner" tree is small potatoes. JMHO
