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| Is anyone going to take the plunge and try them? I feel like they made the breeding fee reasonable since you must do ICSI and use Dr. Beck. I think they are marketing solely towards these babies heading to the arena. I enjoy following his posts on facebook about the developing embryos he currently has. |
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| Haven't seen anything. Do you have a link? |
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It's Rick Beck on fb. |
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Location: Illinois | Its neat that its being offered and I'm sure there will be a couple takers. The risks are huge with that though, you'd be gambling a minimum of $13,500 on basically a fertilized egg. I'd have to pass on that |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | JLazyT_perf_horses - 2018-03-23 1:12 PM Its neat that its being offered and I'm sure there will be a couple takers. The risks are huge with that though, you'd be gambling a minimum of $13,500 on basically a fertilized egg. I'd have to pass on that
I agree. And while it is so neat to see these old studs back, I don't think it is healthy for the integrity of the breed. I would hope somewhere along the line someone has bred a mare to either of those 2 stallions to produce a stallion that is better than their sire. That is the goal. Better the breed, always strive for faster etc. And some stallions just aren't sire of sires...but they have the best daughters out there. Look at Dash For Cash, he created First Down Dash. And he himself has so many nice stallions...and daughters. |
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Location: North Texas | wyoming barrel racer - 2018-03-26 8:21 PM
JLazyT_perf_horses - 2018-03-23 1:12 PM Its neat that its being offered and I'm sure there will be a couple takers. The risks are huge with that though, you'd be gambling a minimum of $13,500 on basically a fertilized egg. I'd have to pass on that
I agree. And while it is so neat to see these old studs back, I don't think it is healthy for the integrity of the breed. I would hope somewhere along the line someone has bred a mare to either of those 2 stallions to produce a stallion that is better than their sire. That is the goal. Better the breed, always strive for faster etc. And some stallions just aren't sire of sires...but they have the best daughters out there. Look at Dash For Cash, he created First Down Dash. And he himself has so many nice stallions...and daughters.
Don't forget The Leo Brood Mare Line! |
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Location: Illinois | wyoming barrel racer - 2018-03-26 8:21 PM
JLazyT_perf_horses - 2018-03-23 1:12 PM Its neat that its being offered and I'm sure there will be a couple takers. The risks are huge with that though, you'd be gambling a minimum of $13,500 on basically a fertilized egg. I'd have to pass on that
I agree. And while it is so neat to see these old studs back, I don't think it is healthy for the integrity of the breed. I would hope somewhere along the line someone has bred a mare to either of those 2 stallions to produce a stallion that is better than their sire. That is the goal. Better the breed, always strive for faster etc. And some stallions just aren't sire of sires...but they have the best daughters out there. Look at Dash For Cash, he created First Down Dash. And he himself has so many nice stallions...and daughters.
For me the thing I'd like to see is people taking advantage to breed some different mare lines to him, not do the same old crosses they used to type things. Maybe try to get another neat combo to use in the future. I just hate seeing the old tried & true done repeatedly. I get that if it works, don't mess with it but they way they're bred these days so few people are branching out trying to come up with new combos. I'd like to see more variety and we can still do that with old lines, I've seen a couple local mares that would be intriguing to breed to these 2. The crosses would be neat I think, but I wouldn't want to pay around $15,000 for the stud fee & procedure. I'm one of those that would just rather pay a little bit more after they're born. If it was a regular stud fee then that would be fine, but these ICSI procedures are expensive. I'm not knocking the procedure, I think its neat and can see the value it adds to the industry, but it's just not ever going to fit my pocketbook lol |
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