Re: RC: breeder ethics

[Bette Lamore <woa@stormnet.com>]

Geez, Heidi
Are we back to this again? I thought we already beat this one to death!
There are tall horses with bad conformation; there are tall horses with
good conformation. There are shorter horses with good conformation;
there are shorter horses with bad conformation.
I happed to breed horses with good conformation and some are taller and
some are shorter, and yes, some of my horses have better conformation
than some of my others in BOTH categories. I've never been able to
guarantee perfection in any height category (and I don't know too many
breeders who can). I guess that about sums it up for me.
Bette

CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 2/3/00 12:45:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, smw@sos.net
> writes:
> 
> << Blame the fanatics of the fifties when everyone with two
>  pennies to rub together was buying a couple of mares and
>  breeding to the first stallion they could find - and then
>  re-breeding, etc with total disregard for conformation or
>  size..... the end result after fifty decades of that is a
>  small, fine boned creature that no more resembles its desert
>  ancestors than a toy poodle resembles the water dogs it was
>  bred down from....... >>
> 
> And now we have fanatics breeding the other direction--where ANYTHING that is
> tall is bred, whether it is quality or not, because buyers will BUY horses
> that are tall, regardless of quality.  Occasionally tall Arabs happen in good
> programs--and those tend to have the qualities of the programs from whence
> they came.  However, when height becomes a breeding criterion at the expense
> of others, the results are often downright frightening.
> 
> Heidi
> 
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Bette Lamore
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