--- In [email protected], "Karen Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> We spent a ton of money on a stallion from Iceland...it was a big > financial risk...it paid off and then some because he fixes the mares issues > every time, and blends well with them... > > Uh, I don't think you can say that. How many gene pairs in every mammal - > isn't it maybe 20,000, 30,000, or more? And each baby gets exactly 50% of > his/her genetic makeup from his/her mother, and exactly 50% of his/her > genetic makeup from his/her mother - that's just the way it is. If what > you said were literally the case, you could breed just any old plug mare to > some hypothetical Super-Stallion and be guaranteed of wonderful babies. >
I know that every now and then a very rare and special horse comes along. And these are so few, most usually are the foundation horse of a whole new breed. So I guess it could happen that a sire produced something rare and special in each mare he bred. Like Alan F1 of the twh breed, it is said he passed on the running walk gait to every single offspring he sired. and he was pacer bred. But i bet he did not fix Alllll issues in the mare haha. cause if he did we would not have any walking horses with issues, right? We do know scientifically homozygous horses exist, but not for everything or they would be clones. Right? Janice
