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Blue Diamond
12:27:27 Bluey
FaNtAsY!
Fantasy Horses
12:18:49 Fantasy | Fanta
Hooray! Thank you guys!!
starmutt
12:17:16 marsh 🌈
Fantasy
there you go xD for your quest
Fantasy Horses
12:12:57 Fantasy | Fanta
Anybody want to raid? I have the quest >.<
Hummingbird Meadows
11:49:06 Bird
@Bug, now that would be fun to see! XD
Hummingbird Meadows
11:48:08 Bird
@Dusty, at least she was drunk. These guys just had small egos and felt like they had to tell someone what to do.
Savannah Stables
11:47:28 Dusty
hummer that's just like so weird what do they expect to happen
Bug in a Rug
11:46:54 Bug | Flea | KPH
omg hummer 😭I have a feeling they'd get their asses handed to them if the roles were reversed lmao
Savannah Stables
11:46:44 Dusty
i went to a musical festival and lost my absolutely wasted aunt cause she was trying to convince a security guard to let my 80 year old great aunt backstage to meet the singer cause she met him in 1979
Hummingbird Meadows
11:46:16 Bird
@Dusty, yup
Hummingbird Meadows
11:46:08 Bird
*they know what they are doing and didn't need help from 3 strangers screaming
Savannah Stables
11:45:50 Dusty
wait just like random guys hummer? 😭
Hummingbird Meadows
11:44:47 Bird
I went to a rodeo tonight and they had a team penning event. 3 guys game close to the fence and were screaming at all the teams telling them what to do. I think they know what you are doing and your screaming was only disturbing everyone. 😡
gone with the wind
11:39:11 
-HEE Click- he seems to have the best training out of my stud colt prospects.
Alpine Acres
11:38:10 Lily
Thank you Eve, got it!
Cadence Farms
11:37:38 evebot
Lily, it's in the barn/pasture Explore view.
gone with the wind
11:36:36 
😅 sorry, im more partial to red duns. grullos are pretty too but i like my red duns and roans
Cadence Farms
11:35:18 evebot
And he's not ugly. Can you imagine owning a horse that pretty irl.
Alpine Acres
11:34:09 Lily
how do you change your explore settings so that only certain horses show up on the list?
Cadence Farms
11:34:08 evebot
He will be a good show gelding.

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Blue Diamond
12:27:27 Bluey
FaNtAsY!
Fantasy Horses
12:18:49 Fantasy | Fanta
Hooray! Thank you guys!!
starmutt
12:17:16 marsh 🌈
Fantasy
there you go xD for your quest
Fantasy Horses
12:12:57 Fantasy | Fanta
Anybody want to raid? I have the quest >.<
Hummingbird Meadows
11:49:06 Bird
@Bug, now that would be fun to see! XD
Hummingbird Meadows
11:48:08 Bird
@Dusty, at least she was drunk. These guys just had small egos and felt like they had to tell someone what to do.
Savannah Stables
11:47:28 Dusty
hummer that's just like so weird what do they expect to happen
Bug in a Rug
11:46:54 Bug | Flea | KPH
omg hummer 😭I have a feeling they'd get their asses handed to them if the roles were reversed lmao
Savannah Stables
11:46:44 Dusty
i went to a musical festival and lost my absolutely wasted aunt cause she was trying to convince a security guard to let my 80 year old great aunt backstage to meet the singer cause she met him in 1979
Hummingbird Meadows
11:46:16 Bird
@Dusty, yup
Hummingbird Meadows
11:46:08 Bird
*they know what they are doing and didn't need help from 3 strangers screaming
Savannah Stables
11:45:50 Dusty
wait just like random guys hummer? 😭
Hummingbird Meadows
11:44:47 Bird
I went to a rodeo tonight and they had a team penning event. 3 guys game close to the fence and were screaming at all the teams telling them what to do. I think they know what you are doing and your screaming was only disturbing everyone. 😡
gone with the wind
11:39:11 
-HEE Click- he seems to have the best training out of my stud colt prospects.
Alpine Acres
11:38:10 Lily
Thank you Eve, got it!
Cadence Farms
11:37:38 evebot
Lily, it's in the barn/pasture Explore view.
gone with the wind
11:36:36 
😅 sorry, im more partial to red duns. grullos are pretty too but i like my red duns and roans
Cadence Farms
11:35:18 evebot
And he's not ugly. Can you imagine owning a horse that pretty irl.
Alpine Acres
11:34:09 Lily
how do you change your explore settings so that only certain horses show up on the list?
Cadence Farms
11:34:08 evebot
He will be a good show gelding.

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Breed-ability July 5, 2017 01:42 AM


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Can I get feedback on if the thought process here flows? Or doesn't flow. Just want to know that I make sense.

Well I think it’s time we have this discussion. At what point do the following factors faults that don’t impede function and are superficial, bloodline, temperament, and the breed’s needs dictate a horse’s breed-ability?

Let us define terms. Faults we understand as any issue that may be lethal, impede function, superficial flaws, or stand against the breed standard. For this thought experiment, I’d like to focus on the issues that are superficial. I will further define those issues as follows. A horse with an ewe neck that is not severe, but noticeable. Such an animal can safely and successfully go onto a lifelong career. A short hip, little long in the back, a shorter neck are things that for this experiment will be deemed superficial.There are numerous other superficial flaws. It is understood that while some issues can cause irreparable issues to the longevity and use of a horse, we focus on only the superficial ones and levels of certain issues.

If we are, in fact, breeding for the good of the breed over the long-term how do we measure our risk factors? Bloodlines are important.Horses are impacted by the economy, environment, and life just as much as people. Some lines thrive and others dwindle. We decide it is worth it to bring back a bloodline or cultivate a new one. Temperament can measure whether a horse even gets bred at all (insert laughter due to well-placed joke). In this day and age, while we do have ways around temperament in our horses, we do not breed solely for ourselves, but promotion of the breed. Then there is the question of what the breed as a whole needs to continue into the future and not die out.

These are factors that include a deal of risk and future-forward thinking. How breeders weigh each of these factors and the risks associated will vary for each individual. We can look at a pedigree and love an animal. We can over-look a pedigree and fall for a sweet temperament. Conformation flaws can be overlooked as well. Yet, each of these factors can be “under-looked”. We can dislike a particular temperament, pedigree, or flaw and still breed the animal. There is wiggle room in some instances, the question is defining that wiggle room. It is finding those times when one factor is so worth the risk and chance that we try anyway because it simply is worth it. Then we have to question and define what “worth” is.

Worth is a harder term to define, therefore, I do digress to the original question: at what point do the following factors faults that don’t impede function and are superficial, bloodline, temperament, and the breed’s needs dictate a horse’s breed-ability?

Edited at July 5, 2017 01:52 AM by MC Ace

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