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Breeding a model toy horse sounds impossible: after all, how can a toy horse breed? The answer is simple. Breeding model horses is not about creating a new model horse, but instead it is about learning the intricacies of equine pedigrees and breeding.
To begin breeding, you first need to get a pedigree for your horse. You can get this pedigree in one of two ways. The most common method of getting a pedigree is to select “parents” for your horse from a list of model sires (mothers) and darns (fathers). There may be a fee associated with selecting these model horses as the parents and listing them on your horse’s pedigree; this fee will be explained in the list. It is usually about .10 per parent horse, and is almost always under $1.00. If you select a horse from a list and pay the breeding fee, you get a pedigree certificate for your horse.
You can also select parents from stallion ads in real breeding magazines. If you choose the second option, you will not actually contact or notify the real owners of the horse, since after all you don’t really want the live horse showing up at your house; it’s just pretend.
Whether you chose the first option or the second option to find parents for your toy horse, you will need to select appropriate parents for your model horse, considering factors such as the age of the horse and whether the horse could have been your horse’s parent in the year your horse was born. Your horse can be any age you want it to be, and is either non-aging (its age never changes) or aging (if you decide the horse is 10, then next year the horse will turn 11 and so on). Since horses often are not bred until they are at least 2 and then they carry the baby for approximately a year, your horses parents should be at least three years older than whatever age you decide your horse is.
You also want to consider the horses breed. In order to have the best pedigree and be listed on a registry of model toy horses, a purebred horse usually comes from parents of the same breed. There are some exceptions to this rule if you have a warmblood horse and only want your horse to be listed on warmblood pedigree registries. Different breeds have different characteristics, like color, size and health needs. Color is especially important, because coloration patterns vary dramatically from breed to breed. Make sure you do your research to find out what breed your horse is before selecting parents of that breed.
After you have decided on the parents and given your horse lineage you can add your horse to the registry lists and your horse can then be the sire or foal of other young horses. Usually, female horses (mares) are only able to have one foal (baby horse) each year, so you may want to limit your model horses breeding to once yearly as well.
By selecting a pedigree for your horse, and choosing parents, you can learn a lot about real horse breeding. Your toy horse will become more lifelike, and you will experience what it is like to register and breed purebred horses, without actually having to buy a real horse.
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What are all the horse breeds/crosses that can comfortably jump?I am curious about horses that are bred with a capability to jump. Just so I know all my options later on when I am horse shopping. Not super big competitions, but pleasure jumping. Probably up to a metre.
I know Throughrobreds and the like are jumpers, but other horses who are built to jump.
Thanks
Thanks everyone so far. Just to clear it up, I do know all horses can jump, but I meant ones sppecifically bred so it is their strength. Bu thank you anyway, great answers
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dude, you own! this looks identical to a photograph
it’s almost like a photo
great painting 
There is a awful breeder in Goldsboro NC , off of Hwy 70. Every thing about that place is bad. There is many horse farms in that area but this is the only bad one.
Go get'em!
Actually, generally the horse is switched with a dummy for semen collection, NOT another horse. It's called teasing. A mare in heat is used to arouse the stallion from the other side of a solid fence (to avoid injury to the mare). The stallion then mounts the dummy and they are able to collect his semen.
You will have to take general education classes first and then you have your junior and senior year of just your major. Any 4 year is like that. But in Virginia , Averett University has equine studies major-
http://www.averett.edu/academics/pdf/cat05.pdf#page=152
You wont need to take a high math or high english classe but to get a bachelors degree you will need to take general ed classes before they let you take the "fun" stuff.
At averett there are different tracks for what you want to do in the equine field.
1-Dressage Track
2-Management in equine
3-Eventing Track
4-British Horse Society
Assistant Instructor program-study in England
Awesome work Williamsshamir
Great video.
Much love Kat
wich program he is for doing this ? beside a tablet ofc
If you have Excel or a basic spreadsheet program, you can do it yourself. Just build a sheet with all the ponies names (or numbers if you tag them if you have that many), and make columns for vet, farrier, breeding, expected foaling date, etc. You can have a column for random notes, color and identifying marks, whatever you want. You can even put in costs, and Excel will make charts for you, so you can see what your expenses are like. Its really easy to keep track of stuff on there…I use Excel for my business and love it.
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i use photoshop
First learn conformations. Learn them well enough to tell when a horse should and should not be a good jumper.
Second Read about breeding including line breeding and other forms of inbreeding (Responsible breeders avoid both as these two practices have caused many genetic abnormalities in several breeds).
Third choose horses with not only a good conformation but a good heart and a sound mind.
Fourth Learn genetics. Learn as much as possible. A good background in biology would be good for this.
Fifth to get the benefits of line breeding without the disadvantages (though admittedly this takes longer) learn to breed like conformations to get like conformations.
Sixth Cull when necessary. This means to remove unsuitable horses from the gene pool by preventing them from breeding. Gelding studs and spaying or simply selling mares with a contract stipulating no breeding(not quite as effective since some owners cheat). Culling by selling them to people who may use them to breed is unethical for horses with any type of defect.
Seven Keep the best horses for yourself simply because they are your future breeders.
I would check out the reports that the US government does, especially through the USDA and extension offices. They offer a 2002 census of agriculture and their website offers some great data.
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Census_of_Agriculture/2002/Quick_Facts/index.asp
awesome stuff man,….ama practice hard to get to yo level!
There is a game out called Horsez. Ive seen it for PC and PS2. U start out at a riding academy or something like that and do different things with your like groom bathe and clean stalls. There are other things to do too. Hope this helps and gives u an idea.
HOLY CRAP! Comparing this to the original picture, they’re identical!
A-W-E-S-O-M-E your works is very awesome! cool!!!! very good
Horses are one animal that doesn't particularly care what the climate and elevation are. Horses do prefer open grassy areas, the Deccan Plateau would be an excellent area. Horses are a herd/prey animal and they get nervous if they cannot see a good distance (ie there may be a tiger hiding in those bushes!). Even a horse who has never seen a predator in his/her life has this instinct that behind every bush is something that wants to eat him/her. Keeping a horse in this kind of situation causes long term stress, which reduces the horse's fertility.
The important thing is to feed them correctly, which means a fine balance between grasses and grains, and to make sure they are well wormed. They can live on grass only and be healthy, grain is a nice extra but can be easily overused by the inexperienced and cause diseases such as founder and colic.
Also, make sure their reproductive systems are clean and disease free. Infection is the primary cause of mares infertility and miscarriage (spontaneous abortion). This means limiting the stallion's access to the mares and cleaning the stallion's sheath every few months.
And above all, make sure the horses are good specimens of their breed! Poorly bred parents make a poorly bred foal.
Cns, I love to stallion shop. Sure is good to dream….. Here are 3 of my favorits!!!
Dun D
http://colormorgans.tripod.com/ragtimedund.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRMamhyDchs
Primavera Brio– Brio was a solid third in '97 World Jr Horse Reining at the Morgan Grand National as a 3 year old at 7 months under saddle.
http://www.gabcreekfarm.com/briotrot708one.jpg
http://www.gabcreekfarm.com/Briohead9yrsfall.jpg
http://colormorgans.tripod.com/brioheadshadow.jpg
L J Morning Reveille
http://www.tindomorgans.com/reveille.html