Re: Re: Breeding shed manners

["Celia Krall" <celiak@pcrs.net>]

I know I will be in trouble - but just have to ask.  Do you know any men
with manners this good?

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> From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com
> To: tracey@tbt.co.za; MBlanchrd@aol.com
> Cc: ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:   Re: Breeding shed manners
> Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 10:33 AM
> 
> In a message dated 4/25/00 12:26:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
> tracey@tbt.co.za writes:
> 
> <<  I read an article by an English lady in a magazine.  She had a
>  Trakehner Stallion whom she used to event, hunt, dressage and breed
with.
>  He boxed in company with mares and geldings, and was turned out all day
in a
>  paddock.  The only privilege accorded his entire status was that he was
not
>  turned out with mares, but could touch them and their foals over the
paddock
>  rail. >>
> 
> That's about how ours are kept.  Our boy that just went to the dressage
show 
> trailered up with three girls--one just going out of heat, and one in
full 
> blown heat.  No problem--the trailer is not the breeding area, and he
knows 
> that.  And like your example with the Trakehner stallion, we don't worry 
> about breeding times and working times--we breed when we need to breed,
and 
> we work when we need to work, and other than having to make sure the
breeding 
> is done before the stallion LEAVES to go to an event so that we do not
miss 
> the mare, we really don't worry much about schedules.  I don't know how
many 
> times we've bred a mare half an hour or so before loading the stallion in
the 
> trailer to go to a ride on Friday, and bred her again after he unloads
again 
> at home on Sunday and has had a few minutes trot around his paddock and
make 
> sure his home is in order.  For a well-mannered working stallion, that is

> just business as usual.  Most stallions are smart enough to figure out
the 
> routine, and are content to have a job and a "home life" and keep the two

> separate.
> 
> Heidi
> 
> 
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