Regist. TB long yearling colt in feedlot

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Crystal
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Postby Crystal » Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:26 am

and wasn't he sold at auction for under 20k? He just so happen to show talent. Thats what made him a superstar. However, if he had little talent he would just have been thrown in the bucket with the other bottom claiming horses produced each year.

For every 1 Zenyatta, or SS, or John Henry we have HOW many lessthan stellar racehorses?

griff
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Postby griff » Wed Jun 15, 2011 7:25 am

Crystal

What percent champion Chihuahuas are you producing?/

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Postby Crystal » Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:27 am

my 1 and only crop of racing age, 4 puppies all earned their AKC championships by their 2 year old year.. 1 female is a producer of champions already and the others (including the stud) were gelded and rehomed..

How are the cattle Griff? Still treating the horses like they were cattle too?

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Postby griff » Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:32 pm

well done..

But that is not the norm for dog breeders and millions are turned out or put in a pound every year.. If everone would just stop breeding dogs this may not go away but it would help.

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Postby Crystal » Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:24 pm

thank you.

as with horses education is key. Selecting the best to breed to the best to produce quality stock is something a breeder of any animal should be familiar with. Unfortunetly a large portion of dogs and cats are brought into this world because their owners are not smart enough to take proper care and spay/neuter their dogs/cats. With larger stock animals money and numbers play more of a role and cloud good judgement. I agree there is a problem that needs to be addressed with a surplus of numbers.

If there are incentives to breed there should be incentives to geld, re home, re train, etc.

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Postby griff » Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:15 am

dkrar

You started this post on Feb 24[?],

What is your definition of a long yearling??

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Postby dkras » Mon Jun 20, 2011 9:15 pm

Good point....guess they're all short in Feb!