RE: Fwd: RC: breeder ethics

[celeste <celestem@badgermining.co.za>]

I can definately attest to this statement. I breed appaloosas and arabians. 
I have been a blacksheep in the appaloosa society for a good many years as 
when I started breeding appaloosas I bred to an arabian 
stallion....WHY....to add some refinement, breeders here had their minds so 
set on colour that anything with colour was bred with (and I mean anything) 
some of the earlier mares and stallion would look like donkeys (and no 
offense to donkeys!) if you had to remove their hides! Some really top 
quality solids sold for peanuts and their lines lost th the breed because 
they had no colour. Now my stallion (double registered 25% arab and 
appaloosa) is very widely used especially on older mares.
MOral to the story....don't be to naive into thinking that SOME (and I mean 
some - so put those flame throwers away) breeders will always breed for the 
money and NOT for the future of the breed.

Celeste (South Africa)
Mawlud & Shadixx

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Subject:	RC:  Fwd: RC:    breeder ethics

I believe Heidi's inference - and we happen to agree - is that many 
breeders
AND buyers will breed for height at the expense of other and more important 
qualities. One of the nicest Arabians we have had is 15.2; another was 14.1 
-
and by FAR the best is our 25 yera old at 14.3(accounting now for a little
sway in the bacK!). but to breed for height or for color or for dishy faces 
or HUGE trot - without also and firstly breeding for temperament, soundness 
of leg and wind, and overall athletic quality - that is really, well, I 
can't
use the word that best fits.
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