Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies nutrition

1999-08-09 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/8/99 20:38:54 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I read an interesting article earlier this year that showed how important proper nutrition in the mare BEFORE foaling is (especially the last few months). I guess

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies nutrition

1999-08-08 Thread Steven A White
This message is from: Steven A White [EMAIL PROTECTED] My wife Amy brought up a very good point about breeding 2 and 3 yr olds. Whether they are mature enough (mentally or physically) to breed or not, should we be breeding them before they fully develop and we know that they are of breeding

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-07 Thread Nathan Lapp
This message is from: Nathan Lapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cows and horses mature very similarly, and to be very frank, with proper nutrition, it would make no difference in most horses physically if they were bred at two or bred at three. Thank you, Brian, for this information. Now it's up to us as

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-05 Thread bcjdvm
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Barbara Lynn Lapp asked, in terms of breeding three year old fillies, and comparing that to breeding cows even younger, are cows really that different from horses in this respect? Or is it only a difference in human opinion? Barbara, you have asked a very

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-01 Thread Nathan Lapp
This message is from: Nathan Lapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is an interesting discussion. Last year we bought a three-year-old mare with foal at side, meaning she was bred at two. We were entirely new to Fjords but Julia Will told us that was too young (the breeding hadn't taken place at her farm)

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-01 Thread Mark and Lisa K. McGinley
This message is from: Mark and Lisa K. McGinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Joel, Since I'm one of the ones that bred a mare to a Big Gray (Actually I think he's 14 / 2 hh) I feel I have to respond to your post. The mare in question is 6 years old and we chose a gray for his quality not his color.

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-01 Thread Northhorse
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 8/1/99 10:19:11 Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This is one of those Arsenio Hall hm things. Adults spend a great deal of time trying to get the grey out. Now some seem to want grey horses. Hmmm.

Re: breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-01 Thread Jean Ernest
! At 07:49 AM 8/1/1999 -0700, you wrote: This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed a decided lack of responses to breeding 3 yr old fillies. Are Jean Ernest Fairbanks, Alaska [EMAIL PROTECTED]

breeding 3 yr old fillies

1999-08-01 Thread brassringranch
This message is from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I noticed a decided lack of responses to breeding 3 yr old fillies. Are we getting too close to the pocketbook here? I thought all of us were so concerned about this breed. Guess the green, or whatever the color of money in your neck of the world is, has