Re: RC: dumb question (not really endurance)

[Linda Romander <romander@foothill.net>]

I always thought the different fee scale was a sort of market segmentation:
Higher fee for purebreds because the resulting offspring would be worth more
as a purebred, and the lower fee for non-purebred, or different breed,
because offspring is worth less.  What would be justification for charging
higher stud fees when the offspring is going to have lower value?  Unless,
of course, as a disincentive to having a lot of part-breds around.

Linda

Lif Strand wrote:

> Personally Maggie, I figure the fee is for semen and the effort the
> stallion owners put into the breeding process, not for what mare is
> involved.  I think grade mares (or non-purebred Arabs) should pay *more*
> rather than less if there is any price difference at all, but we stopped
> doing the price difference thing pretty early on.  If you were breeding
> for the show ring, that might be a different story, though.  Lif
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