This message is from: GAIL RUSSELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 11:10 AM 1/8/2002 -0700, you wrote: Hmmm....this brings up an observation I have made...admittedly not based on a lot of instances...but an observation nonetheless. In the effort to get Fjords with athletic ability, the breed (in some states/countrys) may be moving in general toward lighter and lighter built stock. However....some of the nicest Fjords I've seeen...from the standpoint of having powerful, suspended movement and athletic abilities...have come from a combo of drafty mares and lighter built stallions. So...simply from a pure economic viewpoint...the PMU farms should use drafty Fjord mares and well-selected lighter built FJord stallions. That way they have drafty mares producing urine and quality foals to sell.
(You have to assume here that the "market" really is for the more athletic Fjords...not so in some parts of the country, I know. You also have to assume the PMU farms are well enough organized and financed to actually market the FJord foals properly.) > > I certainly in no way meant to criticize the woman for saving the > Fjord cross foal. I only wanted to convey my dismay at the thought > that Fjord mares were being used in PMU farms. If it is only Fjord > studs being used as Jean says, I feel somewhat better. However I > wonder, since the name of the game as I understand it is to have a > drafty mare that will provide a lot of urine. > > -- >Steve McIlree -- Pferd & Skipper -- Omaha, NE/Las Cruces, NM, USA > Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism > to civilization, we will find the hoofprint of a horse beside it. > --John Trotwood Moore > > > Gail Russell Forestville CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
