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Originally Posted by Scav
Did you fall off the apple truck or whatever the saying is?
What MALE in their right mind is being PUSHED to bang on a daily basis. These stallions live better then 50% of America
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There's plenty of stallions who want nothing to do with it towards the end of a busy season, Scavs, or if they are overbooked from the start. Not a rare problem at all. One of the biggest concerns in stallion management is keeping him happy and wanting to do his job.
Realize that some stallions cover 2 or 3 mares a day, seven days a week, from mid-February to mid-June. Then ship them to a new country, where summer is winter/spring, and ask them to repeat that - it's difficult.
Stallions used to cover 30-40 mares a season, then we got ultrasound (so we could breed within hours of ovulation to maximize fertilization rate, and they didn't have to wait to see if a mare came back in estrus and needed to return to the shed to try again), so that increased bookings; and then stallions became more "public" rather than tradeoffs between fellow horse breeders; so folks wanted money back on stallion investments and they started selling 60-70-110 shares in a stallion a year to recover the stallions inflated cost over a few years ....
Go to BloodHorse and look up the numbers of foals some stallions put on the ground every year.
I'm exhausted just thinking about it
