Saturday, March 5, 2011

Picking a stallion for your mare

There are many ways to pick a stallion for your mare. You can pick the stallion of your dreams, the guy next door or use a calculated way to pick a stallion for your mare.
I have put together a page on my web page that goes through how to use your mares linear score sheet and the stallions offspring reports to pick the best match for your mare. There is an even easier way. I can do the homework for you and give you several possibilities of stallions to mate your mare with so you can have a shot at the baby of your dreams. Either way check out the page on matching your mare to an FPS stallion.
There is a new way to get information on your Friesian mare and Approved Stallion combination. In the KFPS members log in page where you look up the inbreeding coefficient they give you the 5 scores that they expect your offspring to get at the keuring. Frame, Race Type, Legs, Walk and Trot. There are no guarantees in breeding but this program takes what your mare got and combines it with what the stallion is producing. We have not had a 3 year old that has given the exact scores that the system has produced for them, but it will give you another educated guess as to what you might expect.

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