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Topic: Is this impossible to do?
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h0rseg1rl
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posted February 21, 2004 06:59 PM
Yesterday I heard some one claim that he bred his Arabian with his Shetland. I know this mans horses and the arabain is about 15.4hh and the shetland about, ummm... maybe 13.1hh. I wasnt sure if this was possible. Is it?
Shetland: Stallion
Arabian: Mare
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Jumpers
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posted February 21, 2004 07:02 PM
Yes, it is completely possible. I know of a 16 hand quarter horse mare who was bred with a 12 hand donkey. To breed the mare they stood her down in a ditch and let the donkey stand on the bank behind her. lol ![[Blushing]](graemlins/blush.gif)
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Jumpers
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posted February 21, 2004 07:03 PM
Also - my 14 hand grade mare of Arabian type (passed away now) was bred to a 17.2 hand Hanoverian stallion. This was before I bought her and not a choice I would have made, but they did it.
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o0HunteR0o
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posted February 21, 2004 07:07 PM
The Fallabella (miniatures) breed was creat by breeding a shetland and a thoroughbred, so no it's really not impossible. Funny to watch though I think.
Jumpers- thats funny about the donkey and the ditch ![[Hah]](graemlins/hah.gif)
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tn walker
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posted February 21, 2004 08:04 PM
Standing in a ditch! LOL! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) That's great There is also always artificial insemination...
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Super_Trooper
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posted February 21, 2004 08:16 PM
LOL My sisters 13.2 hand POA gelding always tried to mount her 16 hand Morgan mare....
poor guy...had such high hopes.
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tn walker
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posted February 21, 2004 08:25 PM
HIGH hopes LOL!!! Ok, maybe not ALL that funny, but I still laughed, lol!
It's all good! At another barn, there was this tiny little paso fino gelding who would always try to mount a thoroughbred mare. SOOO funny. poor little guy
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Super_Trooper
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posted February 21, 2004 08:26 PM
Im still laughing! LOL
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Dawn
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posted February 22, 2004 10:56 AM
There's a sort of "pit" at a barn I used to go to that they bred in. Their stud was pretty short (14 hands maybe?) and was regularly bred to mares 16-17 hands.
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AnnaBelle02
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posted February 22, 2004 01:27 PM
A friend of mine breeds mini's and one year she had a 14 hand pony come for breeding - they built the little man a stool! Watching him climb up it *with the gleam in his eye* was the funnies thing ever!!!
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RubySlipper
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posted February 22, 2004 02:22 PM
Alot of breeding is now being done by AI so it doesn't matter if the stallion is much smaller than the mare.
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Cyn
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posted February 22, 2004 02:40 PM
I bred my pony 10hh to a mini three years ago. I did the ditch thing. It works well as long as your mare stands.
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Jumpers
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posted February 22, 2004 08:40 PM
This conversation is way too funny! I'm laughing so hard right now! These poor men wanting to romance their ladies, but being severaly "disadvantaged." LOL!!
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Dawn
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posted February 22, 2004 08:42 PM
I just got the most hilarious picture in my head when I read jumpers post...
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h0rseg1rl
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posted February 22, 2004 08:43 PM
LOL, me too
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JDauntlessS
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posted February 23, 2004 06:17 PM
LOL FUNNY, at this barn i was at, this tall shire mare was breed to a 14 hand arab stud. Get this one tho the stallion got out and thats how it happened. Yankee was like half her size!!!!!!!!!! The baby turned out to be a great field hunter/trail horse tho. LOL
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crazi4horses
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posted February 24, 2004 08:18 PM
thats really funny.
i kno this isnt about taller and shorter but the other day this gelding at the farm tryed to mount Honey over the fence. She backed her butt up to the fence and popped it up like three times then just "gave up i guess". I was like..o wow..thats um..cool?
But I was lookin at foals and this 12hh shetland(stally) was bred to a 16.1 hh hanoverian...not through AI..It kinda makes you wonder what the lil guys (or just guys!) are thinkin!?! hmm...
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crazi4horses
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posted February 24, 2004 08:39 PM
Jumpers~ uve scarred me..lol..i keep thinkin about what you said and laughing cuz i keep imagining it in my head! lol I needed a good laugh!~my dogs been sick all night..its 11:40 ![[Razz]](tongue.gif) blah!
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showjumper
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posted February 25, 2004 02:42 AM
quote:
Originally posted by h0rseg1rl:
Yesterday I heard some one claim that he bred his Arabian with his Shetland. I know this mans horses and the arabain is about 15.4hh and the shetland about, ummm... maybe 13.1hh. I wasnt sure if this was possible. Is it?
Shetland: Stallion
Arabian: Mare
urrrrm.... i think taht you will find that true full bred shetlands do not exceed the height of 10 hands (40 inches)
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Dawn
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posted February 25, 2004 05:31 AM
They can be up to 11.2 hands, but she said she wasn't sure on the height anyway.
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showjumper
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posted February 25, 2004 05:43 AM
i think that you will find that the shetland breed society will NOT register shetlands as pure bred over 40 inches... TRUST me i own 3!!!!
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Dawn
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posted February 25, 2004 07:11 AM
Over here, they can be registered up to 46 inches. The post starter is from here, so I'd be pretty sure that the shetland she is referring to was probably from over here. Regardless, she said she didn't know the height and was guessing.
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Jokebox
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posted February 25, 2004 10:21 AM
i agree with showjumper. shetlands do not exceed 10hh so it is impossible to be anything over 10hh unless it is only part shetland. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Jumpers
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posted February 25, 2004 06:38 PM
quote:
Originally posted by showjumper:
i think that you will find that the shetland breed society will NOT register shetlands as pure bred over 40 inches... TRUST me i own 3!!!!
According to the Shetland Pony Studbook Society (Scotland) they can be registered up to 42 inches for a mature pony.
The American Shetland Pony Club says in America Shetlands can be registered up to 46 inches
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posted February 25, 2004 06:40 PM
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Originally posted by Jokebox:
i agree with showjumper. shetlands do not exceed 10hh so it is impossible to be anything over 10hh unless it is only part shetland.
How FASLE!! Genetics don't give two rips about what humans decide is registerable or not. I don't care what country you live in - purebred Shetlands can in fact be taller than 10 hands. Just because they cannot be registered does not mean they can't be taller (and purebred)!!!
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