This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 12/15/01 8:39:53 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> You mentioned not being happy with the line breeding or something like that. > What are you meaning by that? What makes this line breeding not as > satisfactory to you? I am eager to learn so pardon me for asking so many > questions. > There are lots of reasons why I don't like linebreeding. Although it seems that this particular cross doesn't seem to have any real problems. One of the things that has been mentioned, is that if you line breed, you can end up with smaller horses. Skylark at 3 years old is a mere 13.2, whereas mom was 14.1. No biggie. She's a good filly, and is adequately sized. The vets on the board can get into the genetics of line breeding better than I. Something of interest has been brought up to me regarding two particular bloodlines. And the little research I've done following up on it show me it has some merit. If you cross the Torbjorn and Valebu lines, you can end up getting horses with a lot of white on them. My Juniper has both in her pedigree and has no white, but her full sister has a white blaze! And two of her other relatives have stars. All have the crossing of Torbjorn and Valebu in their pedigrees. Before I learned this little tidbit, we bred Juniper to a stallion who does have Valebu in his background. No white on the resulting filly!
