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At 10:07 AM 11/13/03, you wrote:
> > I have always wondered  why can't we regulate backyard/irresponsible
> > breeding?


gotta jump in here for a sec.  about 13 years ago, give or take one i don't 
remember exactly, i was told about a large well known show breeder in 
california that had 200 foals hit the ground that year. if i remember the 
numbers right they picked 20% as their potential show crop, a second 20% 
went to the other farm as "maybes".  the 60% left went to the zoo to be 
lion food.  when the person telling me about this said she was asked to 
look at some of the 60% and guess why they were in that group?  she told me 
they were knock down gorgeous and she couldn't fathom why?  answer?  they 
had to much white on them, mostly on the heads.  to much white might of 
been just a plain blaze.

is this a responsible breeder just because they show and win???????  i've 
known much more responsibility out of what many would term "backyard" breeder.

when we first moved to atascadero back in '77 i was taken around to 
visit  many of the local arab farms, i looked forward to it as i'd seen 
many nice, fancy, glossy ads in AHW for some of these places.  boy was i 
shocked.  skinny horses.  sick horses.  deformed horses. run down junk heap 
of barns. fencing that was frightening.

just my 2 cents worth.

kc




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