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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 3:16 pm    Post subject: Re: Stallion selection Reply with quote
Silver wrote:
RoperAB wrote:
If my mares dam was a good broodmare does that mean that chances are my mare will be pretty good?
If I breed her this spring as a 5 yo for the first time is it more risky if I use a larger stallion?
Example my mare would be about 15.2hh <never measured her> but she isnt the heaviest horse around. Now there is a stallion not so far from here thats a good 16hh and im guessing 1400lbs. Should I look for a smaller stallion?
What are your thoughts?


My only fear would be that the foal matures to be too big. My experience with big studs is as often as not the foal ends up larger than the stud. Might have just been my luck though. And maybe you want a monster heading horse. I'm no team roper, so I like 'em a little shorter.


This Zann Parr Bar/Docs Contental stud is only 15.2HH.
I dont know it seems like if somebody wants a smaller horse and he buys a colt it will keep growing and growing until its 16hands. Then if somebody like me buys a two year old and hopes that it will get taller it will quit growing as soon as I buy it Laughing
My ideal horse would be about 15.3 hands, heavy boned but not a tank. Maybe take a #1 shoe, good whithers, small head. Guess it would be easier for me to post a picture sometime.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
I posted a picture in the photo gallery. Hopefully this link will work?
http://www.ranchers.net/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/828/limit/recent
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