Re: breeder ethics

["Whitney Bass" <bass@bigsky.net>]

When ANYTHING "becomes a breeding criterion at the expense of others",
you'll probably end up with "frightening" results.  I don't think that
(percentage-wise), taller horses have more problems than shorter horses --
at least, I haven't seen it.


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> From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com
> To: smw@sos.net; katswig@earthlink.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:   breeder ethics
> Date: Thursday, February 03, 2000 1:52 PM
> 
> 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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