BARRELHORSE USA - 2018-03-14 1:33 AM
What qualities does a mare have to have to be a "Blue Hen" broodmare?
What qualities do all great producing mares have?
The Blue Hen is named for the horse breeding term "Blue Hen," meaning a
mare who has proved herself exceptional in producing high quality foals,
almost regardless of which stallion might be the sire. These sons and daughters
would also produce and improve the breed.
The answer varies greatly and is largely dependent on the goals for your individual
program.
Are you raising horses for your kids to run at the local gymkhanas? Then you could
probably get away with anything if you cross it on the right stud.
If you want to raise and sell futurity prospects, you darn sure need to pick carefully.
Among the industry’s leading breeders the criteria is fairly standard— pedigree,
conformation, proven performance or production and a dis
position to go along
with it. The age and history of the mare also affects which of the aforementioned
factors are most important.
Pedigree isn’t just about fashionable bloodlines. It’s a road map with indepth
breeding that can give clues to performance, especially when researching the
produce records of the dams and finding proven crosses. Stacking as many
bloodlines of successful families to increase the genetic pool and the desired
characteristics of your event is a most do situation.
Keeping up with the successful families will also require a breeder to come back
to a certain family and line breed his future babies to enhance that family or
bloodline and increase the likelihood of stamping that baby with all the good
characteristics of that super successful family or stallion's bloodlines.
“I like a good bottom side. I think 60 percent or more of the baby is going to
be from the mama. You’re beating your head against the wall if you take a
common mare and go to Frenchmans Guy or Dash Ta Fame, thinking you’re
really going to get a big-time runner.
You have got to have that mama with a solid pedigree of like families of horses.
That’s pretty elementary to most people, but occasionally I see a horse in a
sale that’s by Dash Ta Fame out of a mare who has no bottom side at all.
Then they scratch their head and wonder why they didn’t get their stud fee
back. So I want a good mama with a good pedigree in her, then match that
mare to a stud and cross that way.
This is an example of indepth breeding and stacking the bloodlines of currently
well known barrel horse sires // families and specialized speed lines ...
If you look at the top 5 runners at the 2017 NFR, the 2018 American Rodeo and
Diamonds N Dirt ... you will see the following stacked long term pedigree
is right on track on making some one famous ..
DIAMONDS N BLUEJEANS
http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/diamonds+n+bluejeans
ENJOY the joys of also having
Mother Luck on your side too .... >>>>
https://www.barrelhorsenews.com/articles/how-to/4031-is-she-worthy
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