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Need ideas for a stallion breeding contract

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I may be breeding my stallion to an outside mare for the first time, I need ideas of what to put in the breeding contract. Thanks
 
#8 ·
You're welcome... now since I'm trying to read between the lines... your stallion has bred before but never to a mare that has not been a part of his/your herd?
Did I read that right? I'm wondering, which is why I ask these questions, what experience you have in breeding stallions to mares... not the reverse. There is a difference. As the stallion's guard you'll need know a tad more about putting him together with mares you know little or nothing about personally.... other than if she is healthy. A fine stallion, capable of breeding well for years, may be inhibited severely by an encounter with certain mare behaviors... not only during the cover of the mare, but for time to come. Any stallion who is capable of pasture breeding without injury to the mares is worthy of particular care. Any mare incapable of responding in kind to Gentleman Jim needs a close eye kept on her.

Cowboy
 
#10 ·
Cowboy, I don't breed to outside mares only to my own, I pasture breed mostly, I have hand breed a couple of my mares to him before, he's gentle and likes to romance. He's been with my mares for years and has been in the same pasture when they foaled. He's not a youngster. And this will be a cross breeding of a Standard Bred mare and an Icelandic stallion, she's 16.3 he's 13.2. I'm not sure if I'm going to do this breeding or not.
 
#13 ·
Yes the last sentence was an after thought. I'm glad you got a chuckle out of it. The logistics of this breeding will be interesting to say the least, I'll have to dig a trench for the mare to stand in. I'm doing my best to talk myself out of, I don't really want to have the hassle of the whole thing.
 
#14 ·
Make sure to be specific. If you are offering a LFG, what does that entail? Does the foal have to stand and nurse, stay alive for 24 hours, stay alive for a week? What about colour, are you making any sort of guarantee about that? If yes, make sure that you are specific with that too. Specify absolutely everything - it is better to be too specific than to miss something important out.
 
#15 ·
Yep! Thought so about that last sentence....yer an honest gal! Logistics? What an interesting choice of words. Now you really got me fallin' outta the saddle laughin'...!!! Now I know those little Ice Island hosses are tuff as nails, but what if the little guy falls in the trench? And after he is in a state of blissful studly accomplishment how will he get back on the high ground? He'll be back side on the high ground and front side suspended in mid air if the mare decides to move. Tell ya one thing.... I reckon you got yer hands full with this deal. When you try to talk yourself out of such things as these that you get yourself into.... just exactly what process do you use? Bourbon or Rye? Just funnin' ya... Cowboy
 
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Indeed. Here's a true story: a 2 year old, sold as a registered gelding and by three had himself an interesting collection of foals scattered about hither and yon until it was realized that he was not really a gelding but a cryptorchid stud. The registry was contacted, his designation changed from gelding to stallion after a running battle between the registry, the owner and the vet. The owner then happy with the value of a surprise stud at gelding price (sold him shortly thereafter). The vet unhappy and insisting that the cryptorchid stud must have surgery or be at risk of imminent death almost daily ( and all the other horror stories about crypts), and the registry insisting that a horse that produces progeny is a horse (stallion, in registry terms). The horse just wanted to have fun.
The horse won the whole pot in the end, became legally a horse again and went on to create many other horses and more than a decade later still lives on. Interestingly enough, few of the many who have visited with this particular horse (who is quite masculine in his appearance and carriage) ever realized he was a crypt. Cowboy
 
#18 ·
Crypts are unable to reproduce. Ever. The testicles are in the horses body, which is too hot temperature wise to produce viable sperm. One testicle must be descended in order to reproduce successfully.
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#21 · (Edited)
Chiilaa, the LFG is something I would have to research and would follow the average within my area. Since this stallion is sorrel solid I would not make and clause regarding color.

The tallest mare he has covered is my Appendix mare and she is 15.3 he had no problem with that, but 16.3 might be too tall.
 
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