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> There are too many stallions, and we don't want to add to the problem.
This is a position that I cannot agree with. The best stallion in the
world will have NO progeny unless someone decides to breed their mare to
him.
If the problem is that there are too many horses being bred, it is because
there are too many mares being bred, not because there are too many
stallions.
I have found (in the two breed that I am most familiar with, Arabians and
TBs) that, in fact, there are too few stallions, and prominent stallions
appear far too often in the pedigrees of purebred horses.
There are plenty of reasons for gelding a stallion, most of which include
not wanting to have to stable and handle them (which can be challenging
and does require appropriate facilities and talents), and there are plenty
of good stallions that would be great geldings; however, the "too many
horses are being bred" problem is a problem with owners of "less than
breeding quality mares" choosing to breed them or owners of good mares
choosing to breed to "less than breeding quality" stallions.
A stallion, all by himself, cannot contribute to any problems.
kat
Orange County, Calif.
p.s. This is coming from someone who just "happens" to like stallions and
if I had my choice, every horse I owned would be a stallion. Not because
I want to breed tons of horses (if I wanted to do that Iwould own mares),
but because I enjoy working with stallions.
After all, the Lipizzaners of the Spanish Riding School are all stallions,
but they are not all breeding stallions. The Spanish Riding School
chooses to use stallions because it is from them that you can get the most
vibrant performances.
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