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MontesqueStables · Dec 21, 2017 3:40 PM

I'm curious. I see many barns keep all types of horses. Do many people routinely breed different types with a color/quality in mind? Or do most people try to keep warmblood to warmblood and cob to cob etc.?

SandycreekFarm · Dec 21, 2017 3:52 PM

I frequently breed horses with bone weights in the same division (light, medium, heavy), but if I'm primarily focused on wanting foals with a specific color or pattern, I don't mind mixing it up.

I tend to breed more horses than ponies, with the exception of my Tom Thumb line which is exclusively ponies, generally under 14 hands for lined stock. Once again, If I'm focused on a color or pattern, I don't mind breeding ponies to horses.

I do try to breed horses of similar breeding ability together consistently, although I have considered experimenting with breeding a high papered stallion to lower papered mares specifically in order to produce neuters for showing.

RipshinCreekFarm · Dec 21, 2017 4:23 PM

I have been refining my lines, and I have been keeping bone/height based on certain color/patterns. I have splash M and KP warmbloods, and Plaid drafts. That being said, I will use horses that do not fit the bone/weight criteria, but will cross them with horses that will give me the size I want. For example, I may cross a pony stallion with my taller mares to get a better chance of a horse.
Like SandyCreek, I try to keep breeding ability equal, unless I am trying for breeding stock.

RoseFlute · Dec 21, 2017 4:28 PM

I breed Riding horses almost exclusively now, and that's because when they came out I was smitten, but I couldn't just get rid of my old Warmbloods. I tried breeding a Grey (on black and bay) Draft line, but by the time I got to about the 3rd generation, I got tired of them and sold just about everybody away. Part of it might have been that they were so VERY different from everybody else, because I wasn't breeding for grey or bay in any other line, and I couldn't breed them to my main lines or the weight would be pulled out of the Light build just as it was getting there. You might still be able to find a few of my draft mares out there. :)
But mainly I always breed the tallest horses I can. :D

Haltanny · Dec 21, 2017 4:31 PM

I mostly breed light types to light, heavy types to heavy. Medium types usually get stuck in with the light or heavy, depending where I want that color.

kintara · Dec 21, 2017 4:41 PM

I prefer smaller, and like the heavier bone so mostly breed the cobs. So if I have warmbloods I'll breed them to my smallest ponies and cobs to try and get smaller foals

MoonAcre Stables · Dec 21, 2017 7:22 PM

I breed everything to everything lol.

friesianpaints · Dec 21, 2017 7:46 PM

I breed everything to everything also lol

ColorGoodStables · Dec 21, 2017 8:19 PM

I keep wbs and drafts and typically breed them together.
Even someone who breeds just drafts could use a warmblood in their line and get draft foals (depending on how weights)
My color lines are mostly focused on the genes more than the horses size. The extra bonus of this is that when others want a gene that I breed for I can usually find a horse in their preferred size in my barns

MontesqueStables · Dec 23, 2017 6:04 AM

Thanks you all!

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