This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Breeding of Fjord Horses as well as other breeds in the Netherlands is "controlled" by independent stud books not the Dutch government. The Fjord stud book cannot make you geld your stallion however it will issue papers of resulting offspring in a color to indicate that the parents were either not evaluated or not evaluated favourably.
The gestapo will not come to your farm and shoot your horses and haul you off to jail. People may privately own stallions and they can go through the evaluations and if said stallion is favourably evaluated he will be represented in the Stallion Roster. However most people choose to allow the studbooks to own the stallions and farmers lease them on a yearly basis. Just because a certain stallion is standing in your district that year there is nothing preventing an individual from taking their mare outside the district to breed to a particular stallion. Evaluations and record keeping are the studbook's job and the studbook is run by a BOD of interested individuals, none of whom are stallion owners by the way. The Dutch government is not involved in setting policy for individual breed organizations. Vivian Creigh
