IKR!! I get so distracted from my work watching the floaty walk. :0 OwO Me too! XD And that hair. O.O I like them all but unfortunately the gene pool for paints rn is lacking and stagnant imo. :/
That hair is Disney Princess-worthy.
Oh yeah? What do you mean?
Maybe better even! @0@
Well they tend to be inbred and so they often have lots of conformation issues and health defects imo. Perhaps things have improved of late but last I heard the paint and Arabian gene pools were not very diverse or good.
Well they tend to be inbred and so they often have lots of conformation issues and health defects imo. Perhaps things have improved of late but last I heard the paint and Arabian gene pools were not very diverse or good.
O3O I wonder if they can do the dramatic hair-flip like Ariel can.
Ohh, gotcha. Is this due to breeders trying to create new mixed breeds?
Well they tend to be inbred and so they often have lots of conformation issues and health defects imo. Perhaps things have improved of late but last I heard the paint and Arabian gene pools were not very diverse or good.
O3O I wonder if they can do the dramatic hair-flip like Ariel can.
Ohh, gotcha. Is this due to breeders trying to create new mixed breeds?
I wonder.....*googles* Eh, indefinite results. But I'm sure some of them could do it.
Good guess but it's actually the opposite. In effort to have the bloodline as "pure" as possible a lot of breeders breed exclusive family lines too closely for the horses to remain healthy. Imagine it like this. One has thousands and thousands of rainbow colored droplets on a palette. But we're going to focus on a single "breed", 500 drops of water that are a blue color on a palette. They decide to only combine dark blue droplets and leave the other blue shades out. After a short time there is only one big dark blue colored droplet left because the supply of fresh dark blues has run out. Instead of having many many small, varying shades of blue now there's this big misshapen droplet and any other color added to this bad droplet won't really change the color. It would take several color additions to change that big droplet now.
Another way to look at it would be to have ten chocolate cookies but decide that only three of those are good enough to share with all your friends. So you divide those three up between your small group of friends but other people hear you are giving out cookies and start coming over. The more the group amasses the less and less cookie there is to be shared among the group. So if the horses' generations are the amassing groups and the good genes are the cookies. The cookies/genes get watered down too much.
Creating a new mixed breed would be like having a friend come over and add three peanut butter cookies to your chocolate ones and now the next generations/amassing groups would have a more diverse and bigger amount of cookie/genes per person.
Did any of that make it clearer to you? Sorry about the ramble.