2010-04-03
Retired breeder
Finally a post just for us cross breeders. The purpose of this topic is for cross breeders to have a place to discuss their crossbreeding programs and to share crossbreeding secrets and advice with others who may be interested in giving crossbreeding a try. Feel free to talk about your crossbreeding programs and your achievements and failures in crossbreeding.
Please remember to follow the rules of the forum and be informative and helpful. default smiley :-))

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Reminder to all.

Please do not advertise sales or items wanted in this topic. I can turn a blind eye to the covers being offered (as long as they are not blatant advertisements) because we are, after all, trying to help each other progress and there is no filter on public covers for searching for crosses, but items sales and items wanted do not belong in any of the public forums and we have a sales forum for horse sales so please, lets keep our topic clean of the ads.

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Thank you
zepharo

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  • 2022-12-27
    VenomVyxen
    VenomVyxen
    Retired breeder wrote:

    I was thinking of making a well rounded horse 'breed' so instead of having a breed that is super good at one skill and having the rest awful they would (theoretically) be good in all of the skills without having one compromise the other. I want to start with the Marwari breed and then add ones to make up for their lacking skills


    Definitely possible to make a horse where all 6 skills are fairly equal, though that horse wouldn't necessarily excel in any competition because all of it's skills would be too low compared to horses bred for specific comps.

    If I were to start this project I would start with a stallion of the breed I want the horse to appear as, then find a mare whose top 3 skills are the worst 3 skills of the stallion. See how even all 6 skills end up in the foals and go from there. Interesting project! =)
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  • 2022-12-28
    Retired breeder
    Thank you! I think it'll turn out okay and hopefully the will end up doing fairly well in comps. Probably wont be Prix levels since I'm not a competitive player, but hopefully well enough to do nicely in comps. I'm thinking they may need several breeds infulences
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  • 2022-12-29
    CrimsonDax
    CrimsonDax
    You might be able to target lower level comps depending on how you do your breeds/skills, but I honestly have no experience with making all-round horses. My cross-breeding projects tend to be geared towards rosette winning. I did breed this horse specifically to aim for lower-level cross country comps but he's only a two-way cross. I wish you luck though on your breeding endeavors and would enjoy hearing about how you're progressing!
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  • 2022-12-31
    VenomVyxen
    VenomVyxen
    CrimsonDax wrote:

    You might be able to target lower level comps depending on how you do your breeds/skills, but I honestly have no experience with making all-round horses. My cross-breeding projects tend to be geared towards rosette winning. I did breed this horse specifically to aim for lower-level cross country comps but he's only a two-way cross. I wish you luck though on your breeding endeavors and would enjoy hearing about how you're progressing!


    I haven't been back on for all that long what is the cutoff or what are the requirements for lower level comps. I have a few beginning horses that run in them, but no idea what puts them in that category.

    Thanks.

    ~Venom
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  • 2022-12-31
    Legacy Ann
    Legacy Ann
    VenomVyxen wrote:

    I haven't been back on for all that long what is the cutoff or what are the requirements for lower level comps. I have a few beginning horses that run in them, but no idea what puts them in that category.

    Thanks.

    ~Venom

    It's in the Competitions>Disciplines section of the Breeder's Manual.

    Or they may have meant low-level, in terms of low difficulty
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  • 2022-12-31
    CrimsonDax
    CrimsonDax
    Yes, sorry for not clarifying! I meant low difficulty comps. The horse I linked to, for example, I only have trained for dressage and jumping and I enter him in cross country comps despite his skill set not being geared towards that. He enters into fairly low difficulty comps (about 14% difficulty) and has high enough support skills that it’s rare he doesn’t win all his comps.

    It’s probably impractical to aim for that with your all-round crosses, but I was just thinking that aiming for lower difficulty comps could be better since you won’t be competing as much with top GP horses. This is entirely me hypothesizing though so feel free to ignore this if it doesn’t work for your project!
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  • 2022-12-31
    VenomVyxen
    VenomVyxen
    Thank you, Legacy Ann! That was exactly what I was needing. And thank you Dax, I use a similar strategy to get my wins for BLUP.

    Happy New Year to all!
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  • 2023-01-10
    sl00n
    sl00n
    Hi all! What is the best way to go about finding fellow crossbreeders who are open to selling reserved coverings? I'm working on my Arabian/Appaloosa cross line, getting pretty good results, but would really like a stud to bump things up a little higher than what's available in public coverings right now. Here's the mare I'm working with currently. Feel free to DM me, or if there's a good EC forum thread somewhere that you could share, I'd appreciate it! I feel awkward just messaging people asking about covers if they're not advertising them.
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  • 2023-01-12
    sl00n
    sl00n
    I'm starting on a Friesian+Hackney+TB cross line to mimic the irl breed, the Vlaamperd horse.

    If I've got my notes correct:
    Friesian: +Dressage +Trot +Stamina /Gallop -Jumping -Speed
    Hackney: +Trot +Stamina +Dressage /Speed -Jumping -Gallop
    TB: +Gallop +Speed +Dressage /Stamina -Jumping -Trot

    So the cross foals should have strong Dressage, Trot, Stamina, with low Jumping and maybe low Stamina + Speed depending on the genetics?

    Western Pleasure would suit what probably ends up being the top three skills, but who even knows with how the TB might water those down; I'm using them mostly for GP and historical accuracy. In any case, I'm thinking it's going to be a roll of the dice on what the best comp for the first 20 wins are.

    Does anyone with more experience have thoughts/opinions/input? I'm also totally down to collaborate if anyone else is working on a cross like this or wants to start!
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  • 2023-01-29
    brobean
    brobean
    sl00n wrote:

    I'm starting on a Friesian+Hackney+TB cross line to mimic the irl breed, the Vlaamperd horse.

    If I've got my notes correct:
    Friesian: +Dressage +Trot +Stamina /Gallop -Jumping -Speed
    Hackney: +Trot +Stamina +Dressage /Speed -Jumping -Gallop
    TB: +Gallop +Speed +Dressage /Stamina -Jumping -Trot

    So the cross foals should have strong Dressage, Trot, Stamina, with low Jumping and maybe low Stamina + Speed depending on the genetics?

    Western Pleasure would suit what probably ends up being the top three skills, but who even knows with how the TB might water those down; I'm using them mostly for GP and historical accuracy. In any case, I'm thinking it's going to be a roll of the dice on what the best comp for the first 20 wins are.

    Does anyone with more experience have thoughts/opinions/input? I'm also totally down to collaborate if anyone else is working on a cross like this or wants to start!

    I think you'd find this thread and really the whole EC forum interesting. Fivinyn784 does a lot of crosses like your project!
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