BREEDING HORSES AND MULES.

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1686, 26 April 1883, Page 3

BREEDING HORSES AND MULES.

(Continued.) If the oolt is desired for the farm, put the marc to a farm horse ; if tor the carnage, to a stallion adapted for a roadster. If the design is to improve the breed, without special icfcicLce to either, a pure-blooded horse will certainly, under our limitations, accomplish the put pose. If your stock is good you may Ineed in and in for two generations, but no moi e (that is with blood relations); and if your stock is dcgeneiated, cross it at once with a distinct strain of pure blood to ieimigoiate and strengthen the stock. Whore stock has already been long inbt ed, breed up by stinting the mares to the best thoioughbied stallion that can bo found — bioad chested and strongloined, about the height of the mare, but stouter. The fillies troni this cross will be laiger and stouter than their dams, and fiom them may be bred again still laiger and .stouter horses] by the same pioccss. The Canadian hoise, we think, all things consideied, the best breed for the fanner, and if special care were taken to breed only from the largest specimens, or to breed the mare to thoroughbreds of the Noiman stock, the bleed might be greatly improved. It possesses endurance, but needs a little increase in size, decrease in weight, and increase in speed. Judicious breeding, with this object in \ iew, will abundantly lepay the breeder. We cannot close this subject without eiiteiing our stringent protest against the abuse of the mare often practised. She should never be put to the stud before she is tlneo years old, and it is usually much better to wait another year, that she may be perfectly matured. Again, let her have more of the companionship of the horse ; let them run together fr\\ o or three days in a retired pasture, the disposition of your colt will be enough to warrant ifc. Thirdly, do not make her bring a colt eveiyyear. It is too great a tax upon her, and the colts Mill not be worth any more. Two inferior colts are no better than one first-class. Again, don't try to get colts from a poor old worn-out mare, that after years' hard labour has earned the right to rest. It is a cruelty to her, and the foal will be nothing but an abortion and a disgrace. The mare intended for breeding should be subjected only to light labour, and this should be continued through the first months of gestation, taking care that she be not subjected to any strains or great fatigue. When not required to work, if the weather is good, permit her to run in the pasture. When the weather is inclement she should have shelter.

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