This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/10/2005 12:28:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I understand that but wouldn't it be more important to evaluate each sibling and if there were an outstanding one possibly keep it intact?
Yes, it's true that some of the other sibling may indeed be outstanding and well worth keeping intact. You may even end up with EVERY offspring of a certain cross being of outstanding quality. But, you would still have the problem that all those brothers and sons (not to mention the sisters & daughters) being bred would be producing closely related offspring, and that saturation of a particular bloodline would make it very difficult in a generation or two to find unrelated horses to breed those future offspring to. There is a BIG difference between having 1 or 2 stallions producing half dozen offspring each per year of the same basic bloodline, and having maybe 10 stallions of the same bloodlines producing half dozen or so offspring each per year. The more mares that are bred to these multiple stallions of one particular bloodline, the less offspring you get that can potentially be bred to each other. And there goes you gene pool... You basically end up with a generation, maybe two, of excellent quality horses and then hit a dead end. Amy Amy Evers Dun Lookin' Fjords 260 May Creek Rd Days Creek, OR 97429 541-825-3303 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
