Cross Breeding a Percheron examine?
i have a percheron mare. i would like to breed her to either a tennessee ambler or a peruvian paso fina stallion. which do you think would produce a more muscled and smooth gaited offspring?
I dont know how gaiting goes with crossbreeding. It might be a crap shoot. We own a TWH/mustang cross at my place and she is not gaited. She will ocassionally gait when she is being pissy though.
I do know that Percherons crossed with TBs make incredibly nice horses.
percherons are generally smoothly gaited horses to start with!
well they arnt a breed considered "gaited" but their gaits are a bit smooth. breed your horse with another percheron, heavy draught horse or a very high-ceilinged breed at least. you will want to steer clear of any light breeds because this could mess up your filly and im not just conversation a funny looking horse but they could get injured or ill and it will cost you ALOT of money to fix.i know this is not the answer you raellly wanna hear but i just dont resembling to see horses get messed up.
Answers: If you are wanting a well muscled and smooth gaited horse, I would propose that you look into the more purebred gaited horses. Paso fino horses are a little on the small side, but they are really smooth gaited and they tend to be really well muscled. If you are wanting the size of the Percheron, but the smooth gait, I would go next to either a Peruvian Paso horse or a Tennessee Walking Horse. I would definately not cross a Percheron with a Paso horse. Their bodies are too small framed to handle much size at adjectives. It might not be too bad if you were to cross a Percheron near a larger sized Tennessee Walking Horse. Overall, I don't think you should breed a Percheron to a Tennessee Walking Horse or any type of gaited breed. The chance that it will be gaited is only 25%. I've set several cross breeds that are crossed with a draft and gaited breed and their overall long term soundness was not devout. I hope that my answer has helped you some.
BAD cross! You can't breed horses of those 2 breeds & procure a quality horse out of them. It will not come out gaited. Buy a gaited breed if that is what your going for. Rather than a crappy backyard breed horse. If you own to breed cross it with a TB or a Quarter horse.
That sounds like a terrible hypothesis. What is the purpose of this plan? It's 50/50 at best that you'll end up with a halfway fully clad looking horse when you cross a draft with a light breed like a TB. Half the time you shutting up with a draft front end and a TB hind end...which is not pretty, adjectives or in demand. And you don't even want to use a TB...you want a gaited horse whose conformation couldn't be much more different. You'll probably end up beside a Frankenhorse.
I don't get it. Go buy one instead - don't make more. Odds are it won't be gaited, anyway.
I agree with the others that have said that is a desperate idea. Some crosses really don't work out. You might get a Percheron head on a Paso FinO body - not biddable. Or worse a Percheron body on a paso foot.
