briarcroft@clearwire.net writes:
> sympathize with the desire to bring the non-registered Haflinger owner
> "into the fold" so to speak and I have, on my own, in a number of ways
> over
> the years.
I first bought a haflinger cross mare out of Alberta Canada, from a very
nice gal named Anne Taylor she was so helpful and I really liked that mare,
due to the fact that at that time the pure bred Haflingers were way out of
my budget.
I still paid a good price for the haflinger cross mare and then paid for
the vet work and the hauling etc. It was an investment to purchase my first
mare that looked like and was the size of a haflinger.
But still as much fun as I had with her, she was not a purebred haflinger
... And she wanted to jump more than be a driving horse so she sold to a
home where her talents of jumping would be appreciated ...
And it was my goal to own a registered Haflinger mare that I could drive
... But before that I was invited by Emily to join in this list when she
found out I had bought Pumpkin ... and I learned so much about the breed from
this list ,
then I ended up finding a mare in Colorado that I thought was absolutely
beautiful and so saved up and finally bought a pure bred Haflinger mare ...
that was so exciting for me to wait to have that mare delivered and I
remember waiting with such joy and even wrote a story about the waiting for her ...
I so enjoyed that mare ... She was and most likely is still raving beauty
... Long flowing mane and wonderful manners and loved to drive ...
I then thought about breeding her
but learned thru inspections that she was not the "type" that they wanted
to be bred to pass on what the inspectors felt would be the haflinger future
type ... She was scored too low and that shocked me, She was the old fashion
type. I was dazed and took a step back and decided to not try to breed as
I didn't know enough about the standards to know what to look for etc. Even
though this mare had already had several foals that were registered with
AHR ... So that was confusing to me to say the least ...
I am now proud to say I own three haflingers ... and they are all
different in shape and size and mind set. But they are all haflingers and you can
tell as soon as you arrive at my farm ... I have owned several other mares
that came from back east and they were fun to start under saddle and still I
did not breed due to not understanding the standards wanted by the
inspection committees ... I am still learning ... and reading and trying to get that
figured out ... As some of the pure bred haflinger horses I see being
advertised now are like welsh crosses or arabian crosses or whatever ...
So again I love to raise foals but I have not done any breeding in this
breed due to the confusion of what is accepted or will pass inspections ...
I do like two stallions and to my eye both would make wonderful crosses
with the mares I have but it is still so confusing as to what the breed wants
the foals to be like that I still just hang back and enjoy driving and
riding instead ...
So Emily has done a lot to promote this breed and I will send in my dues,
I meant too last month but it is just one more thing on my to do list ... I
really like the mag . and will again order that as well as it is such a good
tool to share with new folks. So I feel this breed is doing just fine as
all the breeds are struggling ... Money is tight for everyone.
I know as I offered our gelding for sale and yes I have had several folks
contact me about him but no one so far has the money to buy anything ...
that is fine as he will stay here with us and have a home for life if we don't
find the right place, we are blessed to be able to afford the horses we
have, but so many are being dumped at the auctions it is sad ... I don't want to
see the haflinger horse become so common and turn into a throw away breed
... such as the T-breds are if they don't make it at the race track ... But
that is a whole different can of worms ... back to this list ...
I would get involved more in the breed but don't feel I have enough
knowledge to be of any help to the board. I do not feel we should have
unregistered haflingers being shown at a haflinger breed show as otherwise what is the
point.
If breeders don't register their foals then the breed will suffer, I am a
firm believer in only breeding registered stock no matter what breed you
are wanting to raise ... the market will come back and new folks will want to
find and buy registered foals ... Just my thoughts on this subject ...
Peggy in eastern Wash.
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