----- Original Message -----
From: Emily Gibson
To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 9:41 PM
Subject: Re: [haflingerfriends] Haflinger standards and what can we do?
In North America, nothing happens at all since inspection is voluntary, so a
Haflinger that does not fit in the ideal height range remains registered and
able to breed.
In countries with mandatory inspection, being underheight at age 3 would
probably mean they would be culled from the herd, and in many European
countries, that means slaughter for meat/sausage.
Being overheight at age 3 --if the Haflinger is felt to be a superb
individual, it is acceptable.
Emily
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 8:26 PM, Suzy Moren <critterkeeper1@verizon.net>wrote:
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>
> A related question? Since horses are registered when young, what happens if
> at maturity they exceed, or do not reach the stated height requirements?
> Obviously, they would not do well at classification, but do they retain
> their registration, are they required to be neutered? Just wondering how you
> would control such a situation.
> Suzy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bill and Cheryl Gildroy
> To: haflingerfriends@yahoogroups.com <haflingerfriends%40yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:29 PM
> Subject: [haflingerfriends] Haflinger standards and what can we do?
>
> This has been a very interesting discussion and I sincerely appreciate all
> the different opinions and information being offered.
>
> We have 5 registered Haflingers, 1 stallion and 4 mares, one being about 26
> - 27 years old and still doing well. We haven't done much with them, but
> they are fat and happy. Only one of the mares would do well at an inspection
> but she's had a spinal injury as a youngster and probably couldn't be
> classified. She's beautiful, out of GOLD rated parents and has the longer
> neck, Arab-y head and almost 15 hands tall with the more pale color. Her
> disposition is pretty good, fairly Ho-Hum, curious and friendly. She was a
> brat when we bought her as a coming 3 year old.
>
> Perhaps the AHR needs to pick judges that are a little more "forgiving" as
> to how they judge what the Haflinger characteristics are or find ones that
> don't discount an animal for a smaller height or less fancy appearance. I'm
> not talking about allowing any flaws, but a good horse is a good horse. A
> good judge will look at the overall horse and judge accordingly, the judges
> being used now only seem to want the new taller, lighter boned animals
> unless it's changed in the past few years since I participated. I don't
> think I'd do it again.
>
> Our little old Haflinger mare, about 13.1 hands and very stout, nice neck,
> lovely head, big eyes and quiet (usually) attitude is from the early lines
> imported to America. She's what folks look at and say "WOW", what a pretty
> horse, but then visitors like all of them, especially our stallion who is
> small and very cute. When the older mare trots across the field, she almost
> floats, even when she's overweight. She was only used as a broodmare in her
> earlier days and was never broke to ride, but I suspect she would have been
> a wonderful, comfortable ride and cute as can be.
>
> Cheryl in Omak, Wa. where we are getting rain, after 3 years I didn't
> realize we got rain this time of year. It's usually frozen and only snow!
>
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