Whats Your Favorite???

[Sue_C.]

But they are least on my list because I breed minis & geldings don't have much puporse here

I breed too, but have a totally diferent view. I couldn't WAIT until we had a colt born here that I could make "my own", so that he will become my show gelding...to show "the world" how great his Dad is.

I figure that gelding an outstanding colt, is the best way to have people take notice and see what you are producing. I also show my mares when they are available, so I guess they are also my favorites.

: :bgrin My stallion, yes, I love him...but the TRUE ambassitors of any breed is usually the geldings. Youth horses extrodinare...

: and our Youth, is where the future lies, folks!

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"Stallions are from Mars, Mares are from Venus, Geldings are from Heaven"

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[disneyhorse]

Yes, Sue C you are absolutely RIGHT... a mini farm can benefit HUGELY from retaining some nice show geldings and promoting them... a nice colt makes a really competitive gelding, and the geldings are SO easy to train and show and perform with... so a winning gelding with your farm name out of your promoted stallion is EXACTLY where breeders need to be thinking about! Lots of big farms have done this with success!

Andrea

 

[love_casper]

1. MARES!!!!!!! ( am I the only one who put the girlies first?)

I love my mares! mares are my favorites!!!! My first horse was a mare, so was my first mini. I love that saying on Jill's website, Our souls are intwined, my horses and mine. I feel that way towards my mares, especially Ghost (avatar). I feel like we're just two halves of the same soul.

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2. Geldings.

: I love the whole "A girl and her boy" relationship. They are so willing and forgiving. I also had wanted to raise a baby to become my show gelding, and that's what my Charm is, next year we'll hit the show ring.

3. Stallions. I have met the most amazing stallions, and I really do love them. But the reason I put them last is because of ....well......here's one way Bob Avila put it that sums it up pretty nice......

"I'd rather have a good stud than anything in the world. A good one will give you everything. He'll have a little more guts and a little more heart than a mare or gelding. That said, I'd rather have the flu than have a bad stud. It's not fun, and can be downright dangerous." -- So You Wanna Own A Stallion, Horse & Rider January 2005.

 

[ohmt]

I've never owned a gelding for more than a couple of months and they were just colts that I gelded and sold so I can't much about them. I'm still waiting for the perfect colt to come along that I can geld and show forever

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I can't choose between mares and stallions...and have a couple of stallions that I would die for....they are the loves of my life

: Then i have another couple that I love to death but are stinkers. Of course life is never boring with them! But I also have mares that I would die for...they've been with me since birth and they'll be with me til death. Then I have a couple of mares that are complete stinkers....some worse than my stallions I think! I love ALL of my horses and I have a hard time selling any of them when I have to... no matter how many times they've taken down cattle panelling or made me run a marathon to catch them in my 20+ acre pasture

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[Kathy2m]

Mares, because I think they are braver and work harder

Geldings because they are sweet

Stallions, because just cant deal wtih the hormones.

 

[High Meadow Miniatures]

1. MARES!!!!!!! ( am I the only one who put the girlies first?)

I love my mares! mares are my favorites!!!! My first horse was a mare, so was my first mini. I love that saying on Jill's website, Our souls are intwined, my horses and mine. I feel that way towards my mares, especially Ghost (avatar). I feel like we're just two halves of the same soul.

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2. Geldings.

: I love the whole "A girl and her boy" relationship. They are so willing and forgiving. I also had wanted to raise a baby to become my show gelding, and that's what my Charm is, next year we'll hit the show ring.

3. Stallions. I have met the most amazing stallions, and I really do love them. But the reason I put them last is because of ....well......here's one way Bob Avila put it that sums it up pretty nice......

"I'd rather have a good stud than anything in the world. A good one will give you everything. He'll have a little more guts and a little more heart than a mare or gelding. That said, I'd rather have the flu than have a bad stud. It's not fun, and can be downright dangerous." -- So You Wanna Own A Stallion, Horse & Rider January 2005.

Nope! You are not alone, At first I said my favorite was mares, Then I changed it to stallions, No I am changing it FOR THE LAST TIME!!!!!!

#1 Mares- I LOVE my girlies & they work the hardest & put the most heart in to it

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#2 Stallions

#3 geldings

 

[Jill]

Regarding geldings again, they are like I said my favorite. However, from the standpoint of a breeder, which is new to me, one potential problem is that those are the ones I get most attached to as individuals and they are also the ones that won't help with my goals of breeding. I can see a point in time where I will have 15 geldings I love too much to part with... but, I guess that's not the worst problem on earth to have.