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Also good points/thoughts. I am not suggesting that it be sugar coated AT ALL, which perhaps is not coming across. I agree that objectivity is very important when making these decisions about creating new life.
There are a thousand ways to say the same thing. Heck, you can say the exact same sentence five different ways with five different intonations and five different meanings. I didn’t mean to start a debate on semantics, just that sometimes the message may be lost in the delivery, as Bayhawk so nicely put it.
For example, I do not breed Holsteiners, but since I own and am now also breeding jumpers, naturally I have plenty of Holsteiner blood floating around here. Rather than having posts that say “Are you crazy?” is essence, it would be more helpful for me to hear WHY it is a bad idea to double up on certain lines, etc. Perhpas the assumption is that EVERYONE knows not to double Capitol, or Corrado, or Contender, or Accord II, or … but I am one who does not necessarily know all these “facts”, and more importantly the WHYS of them.
I hear a lot of absolutes thrown around but I often don’t get solid answers about WHY that is the case. That is what is important to me, and I am more inclined to learn and remember that, than just a series of arbitrary rules of do’s and don’ts, if that makes sense.
So I apologize if you thought I want people to always be spreading sunshine and roses, that was certainly not my intention. Just that for me there is more to educating than “don’t do that”. :)[/QUOTE]
This brings up a very good point. People need to know and most times they will ask. Remember the “doubling up on Contender” thread a little while ago ? That was very informative as to why one probably should not try this. If a breeder did it anyway , it wouldn’t have solicited such a harsch response.
This breeding however , is very arrogant in my opinion and has no regard for the welfare of the foal.
Capitol is known to throw very heavy and cold , with short croups and inbred foals to him are now proving to have a very high rate of OCD. He is represented 3 times. Contender has issues with the hind legs and throws it . He is represented twice. Corrado has major issues with topline production and he is represented twice. All this outside of the fact that all 3 sires whice are respresented 7 times , are old type with old blood.
And no Omare…One outcross stallion does not help this. The inbreeding is too concentrated , too close.
The puppy fell back sound asleep about 20 minutes ago. :rolleyes:
