v casually breeding minis, any tips?

[prplebird20]

So right now my two main projects are big horses with fluffy (or mohawk) manes and I also have a barn of (kinda) small horses
https://www.horseworldonline.net/farm/barn/195220
my current smallest horse is this girl
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/3899836
but my tactic is to find the smallest and cheapest stud and breed my mares with them, which doesn't seem the most productive. Is there any other things I could try?
(my next step after this is to breed fallabella into these horses)

[Cypress Creek Elites]

AC Shetlands tend to be fairly short, over a few generations you could probably breed them down
Also, I have a pretty decent number of large shetlands if you want some! Quite a few retired mares, I can also set aside some larger dud foals

[BlackOak2]

You can also try mini arabs and mini tb's, both of these (is my memory sharp in this?) are used to create a falabella.

Oh... my memory is only half sharp!
Mini tb's are falabella. Mini arabs are just for fun.

But there may be some in stud or for sale.
Try looking just for height requirements in the sales search and stud search. And try applying 4 years and older, this will wean out any birth-heights. Since it's 'current' height that the search goes through.

[Diamond Filly]

So right now my two main projects are big horses with fluffy (or mohawk) manes and I also have a barn of (kinda) small horses
https://www.horseworldonline.net/farm/barn/195220
my current smallest horse is this girl
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/3899836
but my tactic is to find the smallest and cheapest stud and breed my mares with them, which doesn't seem the most productive. Is there any other things I could try?
(my next step after this is to breed fallabella into these horses)

BlackOak2 said above that you could try mini tbs and arabs, and that there might be some for sale. I am, in fact, selling a smallish TB stud that matured to be a little taller than I liked, and if you want to try breeding mini TBs you could try starting with him. Most normal sized mares bred to mini stallions have smaller foals (in my experience).

If you do buy the below horse, please don't remove the brand that he carries. Thank you!

_-TSK-_ English Jazz

[prplebird20]

Ok, thanks!

[Diamond Filly]

Ok, thanks!

You're welcome!

[~besthorsebreeder~]

So right now my two main projects are big horses with fluffy (or mohawk) manes and I also have a barn of (kinda) small horses
https://www.horseworldonline.net/farm/barn/195220
my current smallest horse is this girl
https://www.horseworldonline.net/horse/profile/3899836
but my tactic is to find the smallest and cheapest stud and breed my mares with them, which doesn't seem the most productive. Is there any other things I could try?
(my next step after this is to breed fallabella into these horses)

Hi idk if you are still breeding minis (ik this was a while ago haha) but I have a few mini tbs in this barn ——> https://www.horseworldonline.net/farm/barn/178362 and I could give you one for free if you want (I’m done w the project). Lmk if you want one