Showing posts with label linear score. Show all posts
Showing posts with label linear score. Show all posts

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.

How to read your linear score sheet

At your horses first keuring over the age of 3 they will not only be judged for a premium (See Premiums blog entry), they will also get a linear score sheet. This sheet breaks down the characteristics of your horse and gives it a numerical value. This is a very helpful tool in helping you pick a stallion breed to your mare to improve on some of the offspring qualities.
I have put together a very informative page on my web page that shows you how to read your linear score sheet. Just click here to view that page and other helpful pages.