Horse Pedigree Question...

[zachvu]

When people talk about a horse being 3x this breeding or 4x that what exactly does that define? How many generations back do these breeding numbers go? I just got a new palomino and looking through his papers he has Skipper W 22 times, but I'm pretty sure that's not how it works! Enlighten me please

[Mike Leonard]

If you were doing simple math 3X means three times. But how can you qualify three times if you are cutting each time by half going back to Skipper W? I mean it is sort of a horseman's or dogmen's misnomer. We say well by cracky old tree bowsers there is double bred back on old hank but then again each cross on hank was cut by half and there there was the 50% from the other side so may not have had any of hank in there. So it's pretty much just a way of saying he has a lot of old Weiscamp blood in him but then you could go back past hank and go to Coke and then to then Ghost Ranch and Spainish horses and then you could probably go back to swimming the ocean in a sailing ship. So if it works and reproduces probably better just to call it a real good thing!

[Big Mike]

Very well stated Mike

[Hagerman]

You can go to http://www.allbreedpedigree.com/ and do all the reseach on crosses there.
Anything out of the 3rd generation as Mike says is a pretty moot point unless it's backed up a few times upping the percentage and then if done right, lasts for generations.
The Hancock breed horses are a prime example.

[Powder River Walker]

Just a question zach has your horse bucked with you? yet

[zachvu]

[Powder River Walker]

Just the reputation Skipper W has. They tend to have alot of buck in them. We have a mare that is Skipper W that is good but she still bucks. But her colt we have we kept a stud and he has never had any real buck, and his colts all have had good disposition.
PRW