If you read yesterday's entry, you will see my boys aren't doing alot this year. As Fredy is getting up
there in age, and Jangles needs more foals on the ground to show homes, I will be offering them in 2012.
Fredy will stand to THREE *approved* mares only. He settled the one mare he got into a stall with in '11 on one cover--so don't worry about this guy. If you want to get this valuable bloodline into your herd for a very reasonable cost, or you have a specific mare you want to cross into the Gold Melody Boy lines, feel free to contact me. I am not out to make a living off of stud fees, and want to keep things accessible, so his fee for 2012 will be $300 w/out LFG, or $400 with. I require human attendance at the birth for LFG. I will also require proof of vaccinations and a clean culture. This protects both of us, and other clients, and saves you money. How? Well a mare who is not 'clean' is not going to get in foal, and you will be racking up boarding bills while I'm trying to figure out why she's not taking!
If you want to reserve a breeding to Fredy, please leave a comment, or email me with details on your mare. I will require a $100 deposit to hold the spot for you, however I will not ask for that until I have approved your mare. I will need to know her pedigree back 3 generations, and I will want to see pictures of her. Oh, and out of state is fine, but that will also, of course, require a neg coggins and a health certificate.
Fredy has Top Ten foals to his credit, as well as being an own son of the linebred GMB son, Wittmaacks Mickey Mouse. He has thrown some extremely typy foals, visit Utopia Minis' website to see some of his past foals, including a breathtaking bay colt born in '11. Fredy is a bay, with a partial blaze/snip and sabino hairs, which are common in this line. Sabino is actually a pinto gene, and in it's homozygous form makes those gorgeous pinto's that look like someone painted them with a feather, from the bottom up. In it's heterozygous form, it is often mistaken for 'roan' among Minis.
His bite is perfect, as are his legs. He stands 29" or so. He has the thickest mane and tail I've ever seen on a Mini apart from my old mare Lady. He possesses a beautiful head, wide with dish, and large soft eyes. He is necky, and well proportioned. And once he's not covered in winter wool, I'll get good pics of him! If you want fuzzy pics, let me know...and there are a few pics on my stallion page.
He also does not have the hot-crazy temperament that some of the GMB's have. I have owned more than a few. They are either the best horses in temperament, or they are among the worst. And I don't mean by 'worst' that they are the hot of a show horse. I mean ...crazy. Fredy falls into the 'best' division, or he wouldn't have stayed a week. My horses have to be able to be trusted with children, all of them. Fredy is all stallion, and will show you that if you ask, but he has the best manners while doing so and then goes back to a laid-back country gentleman attitude. I just love this horse...
And I've really gone on about my dear Fredy today, so I will save Jangles for tomorrow! Oh, Fredy is A/R registered.
Also...I can tell you now I will not stand him to any mare with Rowdy in her pedigree w/in 3 generations. I have done that cross twice myself with past GMB 50% stallions, and lost the foal once, and the mare and foal the other time, as the foals threw back in size to the size of a shetty foal. There is heavy Shetland behind both bloodlines, and I will not risk another horse that way, when those lines seem to pull the old size back out of each other, at least in my experience. The only way I'll make an exception is if you can show me your Rowdy mare has been bred to a 25% or greater GMB stallion before, without trouble, and a clause is included in the breeding contract that I am not liable should anything happen to mare and /or foal.
