Re: Cynthia's post/crossbreeding

2004-08-17 Thread Amy Goodloe
This message is from: Amy Goodloe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 11:09 AM -0400 8/17/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, why have to do either? There are enough varied breeds out there already. If a person does not like the Fjord (or any other breed) for what it is, why go for cross breeding (which is iff

Re: Cynthia's post/crossbreeding

2004-08-17 Thread Amy Goodloe
This message is from: Amy Goodloe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 4:33 PM -0700 8/16/04, Ruth Bushnell wrote: that point is that cross breeding involves degrees of risk, the element of luck, experimentation! Any cross breeding experiment gone-wrong is most likely destined for rescue or elimination. Ver

Re: Cynthia's post/crossbreeding

2004-08-17 Thread FjordAmy
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/16/2004 2:31:42 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But then again, a Fjord/TB cross might give some people the best of both worlds without having to turn the purebred Fjord into a tall, lean sport horse type. But,

Re: Cynthia's post/crossbreeding

2004-08-16 Thread Ruth Bushnell
This message is from: "Ruth Bushnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> .>>I could've ended up with something that looked like it was made of mismatched parts, but I lucked out and got a nice, proportional colt with a good blend of traits from each parent. It was a risk but I was willing to take it>> ..

Re: Cynthia's post/crossbreeding

2004-08-16 Thread Amy Goodloe
This message is from: Amy Goodloe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 3:40 PM -0400 8/16/04, Donna Kelly wrote: One of the problems with crossbreeding, is that the resulting offsprings genotype can be far different from its phenotype. Which is not a problem unless you breed the resulting offspring. I thin

Re: Cynthia's post/crossbreeding

2004-08-16 Thread Donna Kelly
This message is from: "Donna Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> One of the problems with crossbreeding, is that the resulting offsprings genotype can be far different from its phenotype. Which is not a problem unless you breed the resulting offspring. One of the factors might be how different are the tw