This message is from: Lori Albrough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > This message is from: misha nogha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Thanks to all who responded to my query about the third generation > outcrossing on Dutch fjords. As you recall, I was just responding to an > earlier message that said that some Dutch Fjords may have been crossed with > Arabs, and since no one had said anything then, I wondered if it were true.
Hi Misha: I think the post you are referring to is regarding Sweden, here it is: > This message is from: Anneli Sundkvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > In at least Sweden and Denmark, the offspring to a fjordcross can gradually > (it takes 3 generations) be uppgraded into the studbook and therefore > considered a pure bred fjordhorse! In my country, the studbook isn't > closed, but a horse need to be by a registred stallion and have 3 full > generations to be registred in the studbook (stallions must have a > registred mother too). Both genders must be approved by a judge and > co-judge. The demands for stallions to be registred in the studbook are hard. > > But - say you have a fjord/arab-cross. If she is covered by a registred > fjordstallion and her daughter, granddaughter and great granddaughter too, > the great great granddaugther will have 3 full generations and therefor > able to get into the studbook, if the judges finds her to be of sufficent > fjordtype. I'm not familiar enough with the Danish studbook-rules to tell > you about them, but I belive that the Danish studbook is 'open' like the > Swedish. You don't have to trace every horse in your horse's pedigree back > to a registred ancestor to have your horse registred. > > I mentioned in an earlier post that my horse's maternal grandfather was > gelded by his owner because too high a percentage of his offspring had > white markings. The sire (who had no white markings himself) was by the > Norweigan imported stallion Enok and out of a mare of Danish lines. I have > spoken to some fjordpeople about this matter and the general idea seem to > be that way back in the mare's pedigree there was foreign blood that showed > generations later with white markings and sometimes pony-like heads. If you > study older Danish pedigrees you sometimes find mares only mentioned as > 'gul hoppe' (=dun mare). In these cases the only thing known about the mare > is that she was dun, and we all know that all dun horses are not fjords... >
