Re: Re: pedigrees, breeding, etc.

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

I guess what I'm trying to say is that even with "the good greatly
outweighing the bad", problems can and will appear -- so it's difficult to
base too much simply on pedigree when so much variation does exist.

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> From: CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com
> To: bass@bigsky.net; ridecamp@endurance.net
> Subject: RC:  Re: pedigrees, breeding, etc.
> Date: Friday, February 04, 2000 8:00 PM
> 
> In a message dated 2/4/00 6:19:00 PM Pacific Standard Time,
bass@bigsky.net 
> writes:
> 
> << I'm afraid you're confusing me, Heidi -- in one post you are saying
that if
>  we know the ancestors well enough, we will not be surprised with the
>  "result".  Then in this post, it is made clear that no matter how well
you
>  know the ancestors, you DON'T REALLY know what the "result" will be
>  (because most all horses are going to have a flawed ancestor SOMEWHERE
in
>  their pedigree, that can randomly show up, right?).   >>
> 
> Shouldn't be confusing at all.  If you know the ancestry well, you know
that 
> both of the full sisters in the example are possibilities.  What you
don't 
> "know" is which set of possibilities you will get until you do. 
Knowledge 
> does not always mean that you know good things will always
happen--sometimes 
> it also prepares you for the worst.  And it CAN cause you to decide not
to do 
> the breeding at all, if the good possibilities don't greatly outweigh the
bad 
> ones.
> 
> Heidi
> 
> 
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