Anyone Owning A Friesian Please Help Help Help!!!!PICTURES ADDED!!!!

[patandchickens]

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Ha, there's the problem though, the horse world is not big on "nothing being said" LOL


Pat, who thinks it's stupid to ban stallions from covering mares of another breed, but, <shrug>

 

[ninny]

Why is the breed going more towards sporting horses? I love the old style!

 

[BlackBart]

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The old style is heavy draft. I will post pics later. (if I remember

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The Dutch/Germans understood for the Friesian to survive it had to get with the times. Where is the market for draft horses with lots of feathering? so they started breeding the lighter horses for the saddleseat market.
Some of the "registered" NA Friesians look like they are part Arab and I highly doubt they would pass the Kuerings held in Europe.
I understood the Dutch registry has to approve the breeding parents to weed out bad traits and inheritable diseases.
I know of one guy who bred his stallion to outside mares and he was suspended.
There has been some fighting between the Dutch and German registires over which registry/horse is better. It all seemed to start when the Dutch royals took the role of Patrones of the Friesian Studbook.

The fighting is ridiculous, Friesland country is in The Netherlands and in Germany. Horses were found in both areas.

 

[BlackBart]

Age 168 ....year 1942 The Netherlands

 

[BlackBart]

Obscurant 150P......year 1934 The Netherlands

 

[onthespot]

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Aint DAT da TRUF!!!

 

[4 Love of Baby Chickens]

She's GORGEOUS!!!!!!!!! I LOVE Friesians!!!!!!!!! I'm just drooling at the mouth. I watched her sire's video and I just started drooling.

Friesians are my favorite breed of ALL time. I want a horse SO bad but my dream horse is a Friesian mare that I'll name Black Silk.

 

[Wolf-Kim]

I LIKE THE OLD STYLE!!!!

Why must everything be sleeker and sportier? I think they've ruined the quarter horses this way and now they're working on the friesians?

I understand "why" you would want to breed a TB to a QH, they produce a beautiful appendix horse, but it should be it's own breed, not a QH. I absolutely LOVE the old style friesians, it's the breed I fell in love with. The sportier onces are pretty but that old world class you see in those big draft builts, you just can't beat. Sorry, rant, it just worries me because by the time I'll be able to afford to have my dream horse, they'll have all been bred out for the "sportier" styles. *dramatic sniffle*

 

[onthespot]

The quarter horse started out sleeker and racier, (thinke RACE horses) and got "ruined" by the halter exaggeration, now it is swinging back the other way to "performance halter" and all-arounders.

 

[BlackBart]

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Yeah, its the type and size of horse you think of when you hear the word warhorse

covered in armour carrying a Knight.

Some breeders are doing the same to the Canadian Horse breed, making it look like a TB, breeding out the feathers.
Others insist on keeping it to pony size, neither style is correct.

If they want a horse that looks like a TB buy a TB, if they want a pony that looks like a Canadian buy a Fell or Dales. Don't change the breed.