How to Find the Perfect Match?
How to Find the Perfect Match? hree years ago Hans Nagel, former WAHO to counterbalance any possible faults of president and brilliantly successful breeder the mare, but also of the stallion. Trying by Monika Savier of Arabian horses for almost 60 years, to combine extremes will often go wrong. Tpresented his new book The Arabian Improving the breeding stock by taking Horse – Nature’s Creation and the Art of small steps is preferable – which implies Breeding. This compendium of Arabian that the breeding plan needs to span several horse breeding is way more than an generations, and good offspring cannot just informative and fascinating read for those be sold, but needs to be kept. That’s the only interested in the history and development way to consolidate the genetic make-up of of Arabian horses all over the world. Nagel’s your breeding stock: step by step. designated aim is to encourage breeders to Which leads back to that basic question of embark on the path of the art and science what to take as a guideline when trying to of selection, one of the foundations of find the ideally matching sire for your mare: successful breeding no matter whether for attend shows? Study pedigrees? Search for the racetrack or for Arabian shows. performance instead of beauty, or for the The basic prerequisite for planning matings combination of both? In his book, Hans is profound knowledge about all the Nagel first presents different approaches visible and the genetic traits of both dam to selecting for desired traits, then presents and sire – just importing a champion’s the methods of long-standing and famous semen is not enough if the breeder failed studs, also explaining and substantiating his to first make an honest assessment of the own methods of breeding on Katharinenhof mares in his stable and their potential of Stud.
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