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[RC] Consistent Breeders - k s swigartHeidi said: I'll betcha neither of your parents was purposefully bred to be a consistent breeder, either. Ummm....the Morab mare that sparked off this discussion was not purposefully bred to be a consistent breeder, either. No hybrid is. To hybridize the hybrid even further by outcrossing to a Shagya is unlikely to produce consistent or predictable results either. (I.e. even more of a crap shoot). When starting with a hybrid as your breeding stock (which is what a 1/2 arab 1/2 morgan is), you would be more likely to have consistent results (i.e. get a foal like its mother), if you were to choose a stallion that is a purebred that is fairly closely related to one or the other of the parents of the mare you have. If Jessica wants to get a foal from her mare that is like her mare and has a preference for an arabian over a morgan, she should look for a stallion that is of the same lines as the arabian parent of her mare that also has the traits that she is looking for (or even better, has a breeding record of consistently throwing foals with the traits she is looking for). And if she cannot find an arabian stallion of this description, she would do best to look for a purebred morgan that does. Until you know the pedigree of this mare's parents (not just that one is an arabian and one is a morgan), there is no way to determine what might be the best stallion to put her to in order to have a good idea of what they might throw. kat Orange County, Calif. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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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