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    Breeding Your Own Horses
    Breeding Your Own Horses
    Breeding Your Own Horses
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    Breeding Your Own Horses

    By C. Bodworth

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    A detailed guide to breeding your own horses. Contents include: Breeding your own horse - The possibilities in amateur horse breeding - Breeding and care of mares - Foaling and aftercare etc. Originally published in 1930s. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this book now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on breeding horses.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Country Books
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9781473342231
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      Breeding Your Own Horses - C. Bodworth

      FOAL

      CHAPTER I

      "BREEDING YOUR OWN" IS ABSORBINGLY INTERESTING

      WHEN the first newly-born foal ever to be dropped in your stable, wobbles its uncertain way out of the box stall for the first time, you will experience a wholly new degree of delight in coming into possession of a new horse. Then, as the youngster gains strength, grows to maturity and becomes an enjoyable, useful, finished horse under your management, you will find a wholly new degree of delight in horse ownership. A horse can never be wholly yours unless you breed it, raise it, train it and school it.

      All of this is entirely possible because, despite all that has been written about the complexities of breeding, and all the inferences that an important capital investment must be made in lands, buildings, equipment, breeding stock and management personnel, the facts remain that amateur and casual breeders can produce good horses. For such interesting and limited breeding activities, it is not at all necessary to master the profundities of Mendel’s law or to apply the involved mathematical formulae presented by other scientists.

      Common sense founded upon practical knowledge may be relied upon as a safe guide. The facilities of most country estates and farms are adequate, or possible of quick, inexpensive conversion to make them adequate. The ownership of a good mare, or of a few good mares, settles the question of breeding stock because it is not necessary to own a stallion. Other private ownership and placement of government stallions assure availability of breeds of stallions in the wanted type of each breed, in nearly all localities in which there is any interest in horses. This means that such stallions are available everywhere with few reservations. Of course, if a larger measure of enjoyment or personal satisfaction is promised through ownership of a stallion in addition to ownership of mares, the luxury may be indulged; but, as a general proposition, such ownership is not recommended for several reasons.

      Stallions require more constant and competent care than mares and geldings. Few owners succeed in attempts to use stallions as pleasure horses, especially in company with other horses. In theory, stallions should be just as tractable and manageable as mares and geldings, but they seldom are. Also, ownership of a stallion presumes that mares under the same ownership in a small stable, will be bred to that one stallion just because of this fact of ownership. This practice does not promise as good results as more freedom in stallion selection. Of course, if breeding efforts are to be highly specialized, a reason may exist for stallion ownership, but extreme specialization on a small scale promises little. Even the largest breeders, whose stables contain several proved sires, make a practice of sending some of their mares to outside stallions, either to infuse new blood into their own lines, or to try to fulfil the promise of special matings. In casual breeding, such as we have in mind, we usually will have happier results if we depend upon opportunities for what amounts to special matings.

      As already indicated, one of the greatest pleasures in the entire field of horse enjoyment, is to breed the exact type of horses which we, in imagination, have created for ourselves. All riders and drivers are advancing rapidly in the enjoyment of better horses; and so many additional thousands are including horse sports in their schemes of recreation, that the demand for good light horses has exceeded the supply for several years. The term light horse is generally applied to horses for sport and pleasure as differentiated from heavy, work or draft horses. The difficulty of obtaining the desired type of horse in the open market, especially at any reasonable price, promises to continue for the sportsman buyer, and is another recommendation to us to breed and raise our own. From the standpoint of opportunity to dispose of surplus stock, if any, or of breeding to supply some part of the market, this demand for good light horses promises to continue indefinitely because horse sports and the enjoyment of horses for recreational purposes rest upon the extraordinary popularity which they enjoy among all classes of

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