--- In [email protected], Robyn Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > I have had mares, stallions and geldings with very long manes - one gelding > had a mane to his knees and it grew really quickly, same with some mares > with long manes and about the same number of stallions - also had some of > all sexes that their manes were thick but never seemed to change length. So > I can't really imagine from my experience that hormones had anything to do > with it. of course there is a genetical disposition for having long and/or thick manes and tails. But if you would have an identical horse beside the gender, the stallion would have more hair, for sure. This is what I wanted to say. A mare would never get such a thick and long mane and tail as a stallion has with the same dispotition. So a mare could get a ten for mane and tail, without having such hair as Kalman.
There are stallions, that are known to make not a nice mane and tail (f.e. Piltur fra Sperðli or Gustur fra Holi). But as their other traits are very wished, they have a lot of mares nevertheless. As mane and tail is only 1.5% of the overall mark, they can compensate very well a bad mark for hair. Jasmin
