On 4/2/08, Debbie K. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OH, I am getting baby Fever What a beautiful mare and foal, where
are you located?
There is a group now who is looking for the gaited lines it is
about time the Arab folks figure out what they were MISSING!!! I just
hope they train them Naturally without artificial means, as it will
take time to breed the gait back into the Arab lines, cause they have
spent so much time trying to get rid of it... I love Arabs, sigh
and you would hope if they did that they would take temperament into
consideration! A terrible combination in my opinion would be a hot
hot arab and a hot hot walker. And i dont care what anybody says,
they are prominent in both breeds! (yes yes, I know, you know the
calmest arab in the world, and the calmest walker, but all in all...)
Sometimes I tell people the perfect horse would be a horse as calm and
quiet and reliable as my Jaspar or Tivar, combined in a horse as
smooth gaited and goey and athletic as my stonewall... but gee, my
stonewall is a product of two horses that were each known for their
unbelievable calmness. So is it nature or nurture, you never know.
But I respect breeders who take temperament into consideration.
People who don't ruin everything. Look at horses bred for color
specifically, any animal bred specifically for looks, most times you
sacrifice other features. I have an ordinary blue peahen, and she
has survived three or four predator attacks that wiped out every bird
I had. Now I got a special silver pied peacock and he is so stupid i
saw him twice displaying this weekend, breeding display, once to a
buff orpington chicken hen and once to himself mirrored in the bumper
of my car. am i gonna breed him, heck yeah! haha. maybe end up with
several very stupid 300 dollar snow white and radiant blue babies.
but what will it matter, I wont sell em and they can die of stupidity
next time a stray dog comes around...
Also, so many horror stories of breeding two wonderful attributes and
the offspring ending up with only the bad attributes from both :)
like if I bred my hen to the silver pied and ended up with a mud brown
idiot.
Janice--
even good horses have bad days sometimes.
