This message is from: Gina Larson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hello all--
I found the recent conversation on "what if" interesting. I think that sometimes despite all precautions accidents can happen. A month or so ago, my friends were in their house watching tv when they heard a ruckus outside. Their normally very docile tb stud had broken the chain on the metal gate to his run-in, travelled 100+ yards across the barnyard, trampled through 2 strands of hot-wire and was in with the 3 mares that were turned out in the pasture. In the extremely brief time he was in with them, he bred one of the mares who hadn't shown any signs of heat since being (intentionally) bred earlier in the season. Fortunately no one was hurt! I once met a fjord breeder a while back who tried to register one of his fjords. The DNA didn't match the stud, so he sent in DNA from his other fjord stud--that didn't match either. Turns out it matched the only non-fjord stud on the farm, and he still doesn't know how it happened! Sometimes nature finds a way! Gina L. Marinette WI
