This message is from: "griet vandenbroucke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi List, Here in Belgium (I Know it's a small country) there are only 12 stallions approved for 1999. And I think there is a good system to test them. When you have a studcolt and you want them to become a breeding stallion, there is an extremely long way to go for them. Each year they have to be tested at least 3 times. Each time they have to obtain an A level. After a few years (don't know exactly) they can breed mares. This goes on for 6 years.Each year there also is a weeks testing program, so the stallions can prove their quality, strengt, movements..... Only after those 6 years they become aprroved stallion for live. An example. A sstallion who passes his test for 5 years and the 6th he doesn't can never again become an approved stallion. Last year two of them had that. I Think in those first 6 years they can breed and the foals can obtain their pedigree. Just my story about our stallions. Griet with Fjordfever from Belgium.
