The Haflinger registry needs to keep these strict breeding and registration rules in place if they want to keep the integrity of the breed intact. I'd rather belong to a "small" breed organization than a large one with no scruples...
Barbara
--- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "briarcrofthaflingers" <briarcroft@...> wrote:
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> Cheryl,
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> the history on this rule is that when Haflingers were rare and their prices were high, too many breeders were breeding their Haflingers young (or not being responsible breeders and allowing fertile youngsters to run together) in order to put more offspring on the market. It was not good for these poor young horses to be bred so young. Rewarding that behavior by allowing the offspring to be fully registerable will only encourage careless breeding.
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> Emily
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> --- In haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com, "Bill and Cheryl Gildroy" <bchaflingers@> wrote:
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> >
> > Perhaps the AHR should review their rules on registration when there are problems with the parents of a horse either being too young or perhaps not DNA tested or licensed. They should offer a hardship application, perhaps costing a LITTLE more to allow an obviously purebred animal to be registered. There are a lot of unregistered purebreds because of parents being too young or not licensed. Is the AHR hurting itself and these unregistered horses by not allowing the foals to be registered? I think so, it definitely hurts the foals involved and the future owners have no control over what happened during the breeding process. I'm not advocating allowing horses to be bred at an earlier age, just that it's a shame the resulting foals are not allowed to be registered, especially when it's an accident which can easily happen with a young stallion!!! Isn't it a bit like cutting off the nose to spite the face?
> >
> > Just my opinion. It could bring in a lot of revenue for AHR to bend a rule in this matter or perhaps amend it to some variation of it. Perhaps a limited time allowing of registration of these horses with some kind of proof of parentage.
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> > Cheryl in a cold and gray Omak, Wa.
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> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
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