This message is from: "Skeels, Mark A \(GE Healthcare\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I agree, and a side point that I might add. It is hard for me to see some people give so much credit to 1 grand parent or great great grand parent as to the reason that foal is such a great foal. There are many other horses in the family tree that are contributing to that foals genetics. Who's to say it came from that grand parent. If you go far enough back, your particular stallion you may be promoting could be related to hundreds of foals, obviously some of them are going to be champions weather or not his traits came from your lineage. Do you blame all the negative characteristics of the ones that aren't champions on the in-laws? Or other side of the family tree? You can't really say things like, oh that great great great grand son has a nice head and long stride, that came from my horse. I'm sure there are plenty of other horses in that family tree that have a nice head and long stride also. Statements like that belittle all the other nice horses in the registry, evaluated or not. It also belittles all the other breeders that have tried to keep the breed as good as they can thru selective breeding. I can see going to the parents, but beyond that, your just speculating to sell. Some characteristics that show up may not be evident in either the parents or grandparents. That is probably why we see offspring being judged, but probably not grandchildren. I can say one thing though, my grey horses have a grey grandfather. And I am pretty sure that is where it came from, because the only other color on the mothers side that I know of is Red, so I'm pretty certain where the grey color came from, Grandpa KARIBU. Mark Skeels Montana aren't in no drought no more. And it's gonna continue. And these reservoirs are gonna fill back up nice. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 4:54 PM To: fjordhorse@angus.mystery.com Subject: Re: Offspring Do Count This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello Sophie, Just for clarification purposes, this quote was from my post, and my name is Lynda Welch, and our farm name is Bailey's. In comparing the two systems, I simply pointed out the fact that in our system, a stallion's offspring conformation evaluation scores have no bearing whatsoever on the long term conformation evaluation scores and ribbon placement of the stallion, himself.
