Breeding and Training Warmblood Horses
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I made this lens to provide information about breeding and training warmblood horses based on experiences I have had over the last ten years. I want to help others by sharing information and resources. There are a lot of books and ideas available about breeding horses, but most are about throughbreds and are written by vets. Breeding warmblood horses has some importantant differences.
Europe has been the dominate source for obtaining quality warmbloods, but there are several major American breeders who are succeeding in becoming a respected source also. We need more. Our goal is to have our Olympic and international competition horses bred in the U.S. not imported from Europe. USA riders on USA horses.
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Breeding, Training, and Riding Warmblood Horses
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byStarting With a Stallion
Warmblood Horse Breeding - Part I
The first step is marketing the stallion. He is the most profitable side of this business - or so everyone told me. Using artificial insemination (A.I.) you can breed 100's of mares a year. Yes, you can, but you won't! Not if you are breeding warmblood horses. Some of the top stallions in Europe have those kind of numbers, but very few in the U.S. do. In fact, from what I have been able to to observe the number is less than 100, less than 50 even, and more frequently less than 20! The costs involved in marketing and promoting the stallion and his resulting foals usually exceeds the stud fees the stallion brings in for the first several years. If the offspring are promoted well and they perform well, more breedings will come. It is what the stallion produces, not what he does that is important to prospective breeders.
Patrick at a Jumping Competition
More Information about Patrick and Lost World Farms
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- Lost World Farm Blog
- My Blog on breeding and training warmblood sporthorses
- Lost World Farms
- The main website of Lost World Farm that features my Dutch Warmblood stallion, Patrick, his offspring, and the farms.
- Importing a Warmblood Stallion
- My lens about how I found and imported Patrick, my Dutch Warmblood Stallion.
- A Dutch Warmblood Stallion
- A blog from Patrick's point of view.
- My Dutch Warmblood Stallion
- My lens all about Patrick, from importing, stallion inspection, and breeding to showing and marketing.
- Successful Foal Raising
- A lens that describes raising a foal from birth to getting the 3 year old ready to work under saddle.
- A Warmblood Breeding Stallion
- If you are looking for a Warmblood breeding stallion for your mare, you should take a serious look at Patrick.
- Horses For Sale in Michigan
- Here you will find listings of horses suitable for the English riding disciplines of Hunter, Jumper, Eventing, and Dressage that are located in Michigan.
- Horse Boarding in Michigan
- LWF Sport Horses is a Beautiful 54 acre facility specializing in Hunter, Jumper, and Dressage breeding, training, showing and sales.
Breed Quality Mares
Warmblood Horse Breeding - Part II
The mare should have papers from one of the recognized warmblood registries and be approved for breeding in at least one or eligible for approval. The approval process ensures that her conformation, gaits, and overall impression as a breeding horse has been accepted by a qualified judge in the breed registry. For more information about these registries see the World Breeding Federation of Sport Horses.
Another important thing to consider is her disposition. Be very careful about breeding a mare with bad, nasty, or dangerous behavior. Not only will you have to be handling her a lot, but she could pass this behavior on to the foal. (Unless you breed her to my stallion ;>)
Finally when choosing the stallion to breed to your mare, look for one that will strengthen her weaknesses. Look at her with a critical eye and see what could be improved upon. Could her neck be a little longer? Would you like for her to be more uphill? Find a stallion that has what you would like to improve. There is no guarantee that the foal will turn out exactly like you envision, but you have no chance of it if you don't at least try to match up a stallion and mare that will compliment each other.
A quality stallion + a quality mare = a quality foal!
Check out this video showing birth of a foal.
The Offspring
Warmblood Horse Breeding - Part III
A mare will only produce one foal a year (you don't want twins!). This foal is rarely sold in the first three years, unless the stallion has established a track record of successful offspring and someone wants to buy one of his younger colts or fillies as a prospect. For an idea of what it takes to raise a foal see Successful Foal Raising. Most people want a horse that is already started under saddle and preferably also done some successful showing. Once several of these offspring start becoming successful it helps to sell the younger ones and the prices will also increase, but this takes at least five years depending on how many foals were produced during those first years.The stallion can produce 100's of offspring a year. If you get mares from other breeders to breed to your stallion it increases the chances and opportunities for marketing the offspring and stallion. Some of the breeders will be breeding for a foal for their personal use. If they eventually show that offspring successfully, it will help promote your business. If they do nothing with it or worse, your business could suffer. The best scenario is that you breed lots of quality mares to your quality stallion and produce quality offspring that are successfully trained and become successful in their careers. Unfortunately this is not completely under your control if you breed to outside mares. You can only try to educate and offer help or other services to the breeders in hopes that they will do what is right for the horse.
So I've been doing this since 2004 and I am just starting to be able to promote the offspring and I am pleased with what Patrick is producing. I think that people are going to want his offspring and so I am going to continue and have actually decided to invest in more mares so that I will have more offspring to market in the future.
Penelope by Patrick out of Wienna
June 2010 ISR/Oldenburg Inspection
Why Aren't More U.S. Bred Horses Competing in the International Competitions?
How Can the U.S. Better Promote U.S. Bred Horses?
Why do most of our top riders choose to go to Europe to purchase their horses? Do they really breed better horses?
Are U.S. breeders producing quality horses for international competition?
Fetching blurbs now... please stand byYes, riders need to look at U.S. bred horses - they are as good as the ones in Europe.
LindaW says:
Many of the breed inspectors from Europe are commenting on the high quality of U.S. bred horses. We need better training of our young horses so that they can demonstrate their abilities and attract the professional riders.
Posted February 16, 2009
No, U.S. bred horses do not live up to the standard set by the European breeders.
Warmblood Baby Pictures
Foals by Patrick
These are the beautiful colts and fillies whose sire is the 1997 Dutch Warmblood stallion, Patrick.
Offer More Services to Breeders and Clients
Warmblood Horse Breeding - Part IV
We are also offering boarding and training with a hunter/jumper trainer and a dressage trainer. We have indoor arenas, outdoor arenas, lots of stalls, an observation room, and a trail around the property. We go to shows and offer services to our boarders at the show while promoting the stallion and his offspring at the same time. We will be holding clinics and inspections for further education for our clients.
Many horse people have busy schedules and a limited amount of time to spend with their horses. Whether they are interested in breeding their mare, raising a young horse, learning to ride, or showing their horse, we want to offer them services that will make the time they have to spend with their horses more fun and enjoyable.
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Other Sources of Income
Warmblood Horse Breeding - Part V
To supplement our income I have started looking to the internet for marketing our horses and farm, but I am also looking at ways to make money online marketing horse related products and services. More and more people are doing their shopping, learning, and sales on the internet - why not use it?
For those who have the place and desire to take care of their own mare and foal, I have been considering another product. I get lots of questions about breeding, foaling, breed registries, breed inspections, choosing a stallion, training young horses, etc. So I was thinking of writing a book answering all these questions about warmblood horse breeding from a the point of view of a stallion and mare owner. There are several books by vets about breeding, but a lot of them are aimed at the Throughbred horses and while the basics are similiar or the same, there are some differences. I am not a vet, nor would I want to present information that is already well covered by vets about breeding horses, in fact, I would be recommending some of their books. I just want to help the new breeder get a good idea of what they are getting into if they want to breed warmblood horses. So I decided to take a poll. Check out the poll below and let me know if you think this would be something you would like to see and if you would buy it. I already have an outline and could produce it fairly quickly if there were enough interest - or maybe I'll do it anyway and give it away to people who breed to Patrick.
A Book about Breeding Warmblood Horses
After reading about The Business of Breeding Warmblood Horses in the article above, please give me your opinion about whether or not you think I should write the book.
Do you have you any experience breeding horses?
Would you like to breed a horse or horses?
If you have experience breeding horses, please share any information you think other people should know.
If you would like to breed, what additional information would you want to see?
Thanks for sharing!
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Mandi
Dec 15, 2011 @ 1:36 am | delete
- I was really happy to find this page of information. I've ridden and showed horses, warmbloods and thoroughbreds primarily, my whole life but over the past few years have had to take a break due to raising a family and miss it immensely. I am currently considering opening my own facility in the Northern Virginia area and have always wanted to breed warmbloods however there is a serious lack of information out there on how to get started. I completely agree with you that the number of American breeders is insufficient and would like to help raise the quality of U.S. bred competition horses. Thank you for your candid information and I would definitely be interested in reading your book.
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LindaW Dec 17, 2011 @ 3:04 pm | delete
- Thank you - I'm glad you enjoyed the lens, and thanks for the encouragement on the book. I think it is time for me to get serious and do something about it.
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Annamadagan
Jan 22, 2011 @ 7:52 am | delete
- I wish.
I love horses! I want to start horse back riding with a few of my friends. Blessed by a Squid Angel!
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LindaW Jan 22, 2011 @ 8:08 am | delete
- Thank you for visiting. I hope you are able to start riding!
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kt_glasses Oct 8, 2010 @ 10:04 pm | delete
- I have never ridden horses but been interested in them for a long time. Thanks for sharing.
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Joan
Jan 10, 2010 @ 9:13 pm | delete
- Can you tell me what age you normally start backing your youngsters?
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Kathryn Seiler
Feb 21, 2009 @ 5:06 pm | delete
- I saw a Andalusian Dutch Warmblood Cross last summer in Wisconsin and have hunted for one ever since. It was awesome. I am looking for a gelding, will only use it for pleasure and trail riding western. I am 60 and have had horses all my life but not since 1998. This is a big step...have a torn rotator cuff that can't be fixed but know I can ride again. If you know of a wonderful horse something like this and it is reasonable let me know...502-206-8539
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LindaW Feb 6, 2009 @ 8:47 pm | in reply to Susan52 | delete
- Thank you for visiting my lens - I'm glad you enjoyed it.
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LindaW Feb 6, 2009 @ 6:33 pm | in reply to ottoblotto | delete
- Thank you!.
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Susan52
Feb 6, 2009 @ 2:53 pm | delete
- I don't have experience at all with horses, but I certainly enjoyed this informative and very well-done lens. Blessings!
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ottoblotto
Feb 5, 2009 @ 3:37 pm | delete
- Excellent work. 5*
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LindaW Feb 5, 2009 @ 2:47 pm | in reply to ArtisticHorse | delete
- Thanks for the encouragement. The lenses that I am working on will be a start on the book. I have an outline! Loved your story about Rene!
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LindaW Feb 5, 2009 @ 2:35 pm | in reply to Julestar | delete
- Thank you so much! Sorry I took so long to reply - I have returned after an extended absence and am trying to catch up.
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LindaW Feb 5, 2009 @ 2:27 pm | in reply to Portable_eBay | delete
- Thank you for visiting my lens - I'm glad you liked it.
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Portable_eBay
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- I like horses. As a kid I always read and reread The Black Stallion. Nice Lens.
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