To produce a horse with certain qualities. Example: you have a herd of thoroughbred mares and a pair of thoroughbred stallions at your barn. Some mares in your herd are tall, some are medium height, and sOme are super short for a thoroughbred. Say that you want a fast thoroughbred to race. And your taller mares are faster than all the others, and the taller thoroughbred is faster than the shorter one. So you are obviously are going to breed a tall, fast mare with the tall, fast stallion in hopes of producing a foal with this specific quality. (speed)
Probably mostly because horses today are used mostly for riding, not for breeding.
Yes, AI is widely used in breeding thoroughbred horses.
Depends on what the horses are used for. If breeding, horses can be sold for sport, pets, and work but most horses are kept as pets, pleasure horses, and hobby horses.
Showing, Racing, Breeding, and Pleasure Riding.
the breeding farm is where your horses are kept. you can access your horses by scrolling the mouse over the Breeding Farm tab and then clicking My Horses. the breeding farm is basically the stuff that you own, while the equestrian center tab is how you take care of an equestrian center if you own one
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Yes. Selective breeding is also used to improve or otherwise change breeds of dogs, cats, horses, cows, and so forth.
Selective breeding is very popular among people who have horse breeding farms. Selective breeding is used to get certain traits for the future foal. For example, if somebody had a stallion (male horse) that has won many races, a person with a mare (female horse) would want to breed to that stallion in hopes of producing a foal that would be good at running races. In the wild, horses are not domesticated, therefore breed with any horse they please from age 1 and up. Wild horses are smart, though, and know what horses are related to them so they will not inbreed.
A breeding horse is typically referred to as a stallion if male or a mare if female. These horses are specifically used for reproduction purposes in breeding programs.
Almost always. On rare occations a foal will be born with chestnut or black legs. These odd colored horses are usually not used for breeding.
They might be sometimes but not all the time.
Approximately 40% of horses in the US are owned for personal pleasure use, such as riding, showing, or companionship. The remaining horses are used for various purposes, including racing, breeding, and work.