I know of an exceptionally nice stallion that became sterile when kicked by a mare.

A few stallions are so hormone-driven that unless she is a hellbitch, the mare WILL get bred. Others are so gentlemanly that if the mare even looks at them wrong, they say, "Mom told me to stay away from girls like you!"

I had a stallion that spent so much time romancing the mares first, that they became impatient with him.

If you're going to have difficulty getting full cooperation from a mare, it will usually be a first-time breeder. After she's learned what to expect, it is usually no big deal. You have to be very attentive to the mare's attitude, because if she doesn't behave totally receptive, seems like chances are she won't get pregnant either...that's your indication that the hormones and everything aren't where they need to be for conception. Horse breeding is potentially dangerous for everyone involved.

Most important of all..."don't breed fugly." You can be sure that the poorer the quality of the mare, the more fertile she'll be.

To Lin: I also used to breed show rabbits. Mine were English Angoras, and they don't have a real high libido. I always restrained my does for breeding, to save the buck's energy and to help prevent injury to both. I worked extra hard to save the kits and so on...keeping the kits in the house and taking them to the doe for nursing once a day (rabbits nurse their nesting young once every 24 hours) until they were 2 weeks old, and so on...and as a result had very good survival rates of the kits better than one might normally have with that breed.


Watch horse training video lessons online "Look sister, is any of this filtering through that little blue bonnet of yours" image
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