Tammie-C_Spots
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I breed appaloosa minis and find their traits attractive. I've been breeding for 14 years and have culled along the way. I line breed and it's been very successful. The group I have now (9) are pretty nice (if I do say so myself- LOL!) and of minimal faults. Yes, there are things that I could change (fuller manes/tails, smaller or larger overall size ect but those can fall under personal opinion) but as long as I make the right choices in breeding crosses I've been very successful at producing babies that I want. I don't show anymore but the babies I have sold to others that showed I am proud to say are doing or have done extremely well with Ch. and All stars. That having been said just as you can get an incorrect impression from photos because you've caught that horse at one moment in time from only a few angles. Same goes with real showing- you caught your horse on a particular day with particular development of structure and muscle at that day, you've got a judge with specific personal opinions that are added to the judging guidlines that will always affect opinions on placings.
I'm pretty proud of my little group and to me (and I stress TO ME) I do have some horses I would not change at all because they are exactly what I'm breeding for. Those are few are far between but the others are pretty close too.
All horses, no matter what they look like can do something in life that we can enjoy be it breeding, show, driving, pet, companion, teacher or whatever. Different jobs take different conformational types. As long as we as mini breeders are not specialized in just halter or just one job we'll always have different traits and some with like certain traits and some will not.
No flames please- Just me two cents
Tammie
I'm pretty proud of my little group and to me (and I stress TO ME) I do have some horses I would not change at all because they are exactly what I'm breeding for. Those are few are far between but the others are pretty close too.
All horses, no matter what they look like can do something in life that we can enjoy be it breeding, show, driving, pet, companion, teacher or whatever. Different jobs take different conformational types. As long as we as mini breeders are not specialized in just halter or just one job we'll always have different traits and some with like certain traits and some will not.
No flames please- Just me two cents
Tammie