Re: [RC] [RC] Just breeding (was Breeding Hybrids) - Trailrite
As for producing Hybrids, or any other good working horse...times
are changing fast. With hay prices and people only wanting to
pay a fraction of the costs for a 2-5 year old, breeders can't afford to
continue. I don't know about others in this country but here in my area,
hay is running around $15.00 per bale right now. These bales are 3 string
bales about 110 lbs each.
I can't tell you how many times I've been asked IF I had
anything for sale for around $2,000. to $3,500. for a 5-7 year old Arab, sound,
perfectly trained, around 15.2 hands tall gelding or sometimes but not often a
mare.
Kat, your good a breaking down costs....how much would it take to produces
a horse like that above? Start with the mare costs, go to breeding costs
of lets say $700.00.....
Tammy Robinson (16,000 AERC miles) Trail-Rite
Products 18171 Lost Creek Road Saugus, CA 91390 661/513-9269
office 661/713-3912 cell 661/513-9206 fax www.trail-rite.com
In a message dated 4/2/2008 10:47:20 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
katswig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
From:
<heidi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Kat, your post raises valid points,
and I agree > that one can be a breeder and breed hybrids > for
performance. However, the skilled breeders > who do that KNOW that
they are not breeding > breeding stock, and don't try to use the
resulting > offspring as breeding stock.
Actually, if one looks
at the European Warmblood breeding programs, they are pretty much programs
of breeding hybrids, and breeding hybrids to hybrids. The primary
intent is to produce the best working horses (and hybrids usually make the
best working horses) with occasional individuals within this hybrid
population being considered suitable for breeding and occasionally going
back to non-hybrids for breeding stock as well.
Producing breeding
stock is not the primary focus of these programs; producing working stock
is. And it has produced some damned fine working horses (more
consistently, in fact, than virtually any "purebred" program; although I am
willing to debate that with respect to Thoroughbreds:)). And it has
succeeded in producing these damned fine working horses by using fouth and
fifth generation hybrids.
I contend that the horse population in
general would be much better off if most breeders focused on producing top
quality working horses and used occasional exceptional individuals for
breeding when they come along. You really DON'T need very many people
focused on exclusively breeding breeding stock.
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