I have a question. Two, actually...

First one is this:

Pray, do tell, what in the HELL is "a tragic breeding shed accident" a euphemism for?

I wanna know this because the sire of one of the fillies at work died last week in "a tragic breeding shed accident".

The stallion's name was Luke At Me and we have one of his kids at the farm I work on.

Ever since I was told about it yesterday, two things have been on a looptape in my mind... one is Johnny Mathis, singing the refrain from "Look at Me", which is getting OLD now....
The other is, "What the flying FUCK does THAT mean?", about the tragic accident.
I've been thinking and thinking about this shit, I just canNOT figure out how a stallion "accidentally" just dies during breeding.
Best I can come up with is that "tragic breeding shed accident" means "stupid human fuckup" of some kind.

Speaking of this subject.... why do breeders keep insane stallions? Why do they breed to mentally fucked up brood mares? Why do they want to pass on the insanity from one generation to the next?

I've been wondering about this stupidity about cows for-friggin'-EVER. The "answer" there is allllll about milkweight. (Which, btw, is about the lamest fuckin' thing I've ever heard. I'm real sure, if I or Eric or anybody else, gets killed by a cow, we won't MIND, as along as she's a good producer. Yeah. That'll make alll the difference... *rolling eyes right outta head*)
Meaning, if there is an insane, cat-shit mean dairy cow, who tries to kill all who milk her, as long as she puts out the milk weight, some stupid fuck'll breed her, thereby assuring the danger for generations to come.

Thanks, assholes.

Seems the same holds with horses.
The first situation that came up that had me shaking my head was this not-very-attractive, mean-to-other-horses and dangerous mare that got bred at work yesterday.
It's the bitch who jammed my shoulder halfway back to Jersey when we were giving shots a coupla weeks ago.

So, maybe I'm prejudiced.
But, I don't think so.

Most horses have a fight or flight response.
Dis bitch doesn't.
She's all "fight" if she feels impugned upon, which she does fairly often.
Plus, she's a bitch to the other mare she's out with.
Plus, her conformation isn't all that wonderful.
So... whatta they do?
Breed her.
*siiigh*

That was bad enough.

Then, Maeve leaves me a comment about a stallion she knew named Jaws-for-a-reason. Reason being, he'd try to bite yer face off if you even just stood outside his stall door, let alone opened it.

Now, WHY for the love of all that is holy, would a person keep a horse like?
Geld him, sell him, shoot him in the face, but WHY KEEP A LIABILITY LIKE THAT AROUND?

I sure as hell wouldn't want any of his kids.
Hell, I wouldn't even want any of that mare's kids.

I also knew a horse like that.
His name was Davey and he was a Standardbred.
Evil cocksucker was what he REALLY was.

When you opened his stall door, you'd BETTER have a bucket of tranquilizer-medicated oats in yer hand to shove over his mouth, or you were losing skull bones, he was such a miserable fuck.

If he'd have been mine, he'd have been GONE.
Down da road, to a killer sale, into a can of Alpo... damned if I'd have cared.
Just gone, before he got me or someone else hurt or sued.

Same with the stallion Maeve knows.
Same with that stupid mare.
Same with about 15 cows I can name off the toppa my head.
Same with a coupla bulls, too... like the one that killed Lane Frost, for instance.

So, enlighten me, please.
And, I swear to God Himself, if it's all about money, I'm gonna.... I'm gonna...
Well, I don't know WHAT I'll do.

Except maybe hold a dual funeral for "common sense" and "the last of my sanity".
And, probably scream too, that's such a stupid, stupid reason...

Posted by: Stevie at 06:15 PM

Comments

1 Provided the people in charge know what they're doing, they're probably breeding to either eliminate or create traits in their breeding lines. One of the St Bernards I adopted was a beautiful female but had bad teeth. She was bred several times to males that didn't necessarily have perfect conformation, but had good, strong teeth. The pups that were born who had good structure AND teeth were kept to show and breed, the pups that weren't perfect were sold as pets.
Unfortunately, I assume the same thing has happened to horses that has happened to purebred dogs: in breeding for good conformation and structure, you lose out on good temperaments.

Posted by: Chablis at March 22, 2006 07:19 PM (t9ebt)

2 I'm with you on this one! I don't care how fucking pretty the damn mare is and WHAT her pedigree is....if they are nasty, they are going to PASS it along! My friend kept breeding her saddlebred mare that was nasty. I kept telling her she was out of her mind.
And Jaws?
I heard he got sold to some one in Italy.
My response was
"I hope as a can of dog food".
Sure he was flashy paint, but he was plain nasty. Horses are an ENJOYMENT. If you have to watch your every move, thats NOT enjoying a horse!

Posted by: Maeve at March 22, 2006 09:16 PM (b/7xM)

3 jes testin'

Posted by: Light & Dark at March 23, 2006 01:05 AM (M9GWX)

4 Unfortunately with horses people (I tend to think its rich people mostly) want "pretty" not reliable and mentally stable. Where I used to ride in MT, the trainer would take other people's bad training projects and after a month would decide if they were canned or trainable. He bred his quarters and appys for personality and dependablility and did not hesitate to can a bad horse rather than pass it on.

Posted by: kenna at March 23, 2006 07:58 AM (HKMjV)

5 "tragic breeding accident" she squeezed his dick so hard he died of a heart attack?

Posted by: livey at March 23, 2006 05:49 PM (XVFOn)

6 Hah! Damn Livey ! That's exactly what I was thinking before I read the comments on this.

Posted by: assrot at March 23, 2006 07:04 PM (ARCEn)






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