> > >No, Malin, I don't buy it. I don't buy it at all. You can't play it both >ways. If you (as a country) have been eliminating the >bucking/spooky/trotty/whatever horses by eating them for years, then why >would they still be in the gene pool? That just doesn't add up.
-yes ,perfectly well here we go,I will tell you all an awful sin. Picture a horse farmer that do breed meat meaning lots of mare´s breed to a stallion for foals that are 90% going to be meat. one day he sells a foal with beautiful color get more paid. Next year he get a stallion with beautiful color ,more colorful foals will be born and sold more profit. what happens with these horses ,yes we have to train them (great isn´t) yes we get hurt sometimes and mare´s put in breeding. (this is what I call mixing meat and riding horses) -I´m not saying that a horse is bad because his ancestors hasn´t been at landsmot ,but I´m not much for buying foals out of untrained parents I want to ask and get answers about how parents was in their training. -And then we have these 1 prize stallions that everybody whispers about,not giving good are bad and gives bucking offsprings ect ect (we have that in all breeds.) you should not mix this bloodline with this. (Heard often in Swedish halfblod breeding,dressage &,jumping horses ) -But as a Breeder you have to listen to rumors and make your decision. That´s why it´s good to know your mare´s at least, because a stallion is a number on paper. >Horses don't buck just because it's in the genes - certainly it would be a >tiny, tiny percentage if any at all. -lets say it´s about 6% pretty nice isn´t! > Maybe if the young horses in Iceland had more > contact with humans when they were young, the > "gene pool" would mysteriously improve. oh tried that my Blesa is a living proof of that her gene pool did get worse by handling her as much as she would have been born in Sweden .(the only foal that year) Never seen any more stubborn horse and very false to don´t like her "face to world" she is turning 6 this year and started her training for couple of month as a 4 yo and was then ridden like 4 month last summer and yes ,get her from the stable without bucking ,standing on hind leggs licking her ears back,with or without company. when riding be aware she can buck time to time just like that nothing to prepare you she just take one jump and then continue like nothing happened and after a while it can come one more. shaking her head (her favorit) like she is fighting the reins,I´m not even holding them and she only does it on the way from the stable. On the way home she tolts and trots like an adult and well trained ..................sigh! It´s good that my sister own Blesa and are as much stubborn (comes from Sweden on vaccation and ride) Know Blesa has 1 price father and known ancestor´s on both mum and dad´s side for at least 5 or 6 generations.............Have been listening to rumors lately people are not pleased with this stallions offsspring .................. It doesn´t mater how good you do your homework it always pop´s up bad offsprings and in any breeding you weed them out.......doesn´t mater what spices you breed. Like Blesa she will definitely not be put in breeding and my sister love´s her horse but had she been born somewhere else had Blesa maybe been put down for not lay of bucking after so long training this is just bad temper nothing else there is nothing in Blesas vocabulary as " willing to please" and at a breeding show she would end on 6 -7 for will and temper depends if she bucks or not. Just love horses,nobody are the same,have trained 5 sisters and brothers to Blesa (out of same mare) and mysterious they haven´t been alike. Kvedja from malin
