Pasture breeding - article about Mohaymen

[Aussie_2020]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://paulickreport.com/news/bloodstock/kentucky-derby-alum-mohaymen-living-a-non-traditional-stallions-life-in-ontario&ved=2ahUKEwjOlefG15aNAxWdCTQIHXugJbYQFnoECFQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2hQyTpcaR5tasC9l8w9faN

Sorry about the goofy link, I couldn’t capture the one directly from the Paulick Report.

It’s very interesting how Mohaymen made it to a Canadian farm and even more interesting how they discovered pasture breeding with him. It sounds like the owners got lucky with a kind, easy to handle stallion and Mohaymen got lucky with owners that were willing to look for what was best with him. I hope they get some terrific babies

On a sad note, I hadn’t heard that Speightster died. All it says in the article is that it was a stall accident.

[LaurieB]

We bred a colt by Mohaymen in his first crop. He was a decent racehorse (earned 125K) and would have made a lovely sporthorse.

yearling pic:

[Aussie_2020]

What a beauty! Did your colt have a nice temperament?

[Texarkana]

What a happy story for Mohaymen.

I wonder why his fertility dropped so precipitously when he moved to ON.

[MorganMaresVT]

I also wonder if/how they will integrate outside mares into the pasture breeding setup. If they offer the option, I’m curious how mare owners will respond. Definitely an interesting situation to manage.

[Janet]

@Aussie_2020

Sorry about the goofy link, I couldn’t capture the one directly from the Paulick Report.

https://paulickreport.com/news/bloodstock/kentucky-derby-alum-mohaymen-living-a-non-traditional-stallions-life-in-ontario

[Aussie_2020]

Thank you!

[Aussie_2020]

I would be interested in their set up. They take care of safety, it’s more natural, and apparently less stressful for the mare. (If what they’re saying in true)

[LaurieB]

@Aussie_2020

What a beauty! Did your colt have a nice temperament?

He did, although I only knew him until he was 18 months old, because we sold him at a yearling sale. His dam could be a bit sharp, and he was an improvement (temperament-wise) on her.

[snaffle1987]

Speighster shattered his leg in his stall and was put down.

[BAC]

I used to go to a riding camp on a Shetland pony breeding farm in New Hampshire. There were two stallions, each lived outdoors in huge pastures with their band of mares, it was very peaceful and according to the farm owners the stallions knew to breed each mare three times. It was a very calm, relaxed atmosphere with no fanfare when the stallion covered a mare, it was very casual. There were always lots of foals the following year.

[Aussie_2020]

That’s pretty cool, it’s like a wild herd. I wonder if it was possible to move mares from one pasture to another without a major upset.

[BAC]

I think they decided at the start of the season which mares would be bred to which stallion so there was no need to switch it up. The mares were all owned by the farm I think, not sure what they did with outside mares, I was a kid so didn’t pay that much attention. Shetland breeding and shows were very popular in New Hampshire at the time, this was the 1960s. We got to drive the Shetlands too, it was great fun.

[DMK]

Most of the fjord breeders let the stallion live with the mare (and their foals) herd and a few of the stallions I knew (including my fjord’s sire) also showed while living with their mare band. Honestly, they tend to be more well mannered than even the collected stallions. And of course mares get moved around, added and subtracted all the time.

There’s always a risk, and I certainly get why it’s not going to happen for the vast majority of stallions, but it does make you realize how solitary an existence most stallions have (another fine argument for gelding anything that isn’t so far and above exceptional)

[Arzny]

Isn’t their a German TB farm that lets their stallions live with their bred “wives” year round?

[Willesdon]

In the UK it is common for the native pony stallions to run with their mares. A friend with a top class Welsh C couldn’t show him towards the end of the season because his foals had eaten his mane during play and he looked too ragged and motheaten.