This message is from: Steve McIlree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian--
I believe your video idea is excellent. However, I think the key element to making it really work is buried at the end when you say: > There are some details that would need to go along with it, like > educating breeders about A.I. so these stallions would be more > available... That is the secret to the success of the warmblood registries in North America. You never see a warmblood stallion advertised that does not have the availability of shipped semen. That's what opens a really wide market to the stallion owner and makes it worthwhile to haul their horse across the country to an evaluation. I just went through the latest issue of the Herald and found only four stallion ads offering shipped semen. Perhaps the registry should make education on A.I. a priority project. I know that there is much to learn about collecting and shipping semen, and perhaps more people would make the effort if information were easily available from the registry. And I wonder if the $100 price tag on the transport permit might not be keeping more folks from participating? -- Steve McIlree & Cynthia Madden -- Pferd, Keyah, Skipper, Tank -- Omaha, Nebraska, USA When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk...the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes. --William Shakespeare(1564-1616)
