
Question on Breed Evaluations
It seems that whenever I breed horses with each other for a breeding program, the foals no matter pure or cross always come out with low evaluation scores? Even though both of their parents are for example 5* in their respective breed. Is this a glitch or are the scores purposely off the mark when they're born and slowly get corrected over time, or am I just very unlucky?

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Re: Question on Breed Evaluations
Lower evaluation scores for conformation page? Breeder's report? or HGP?Felius wrote:It seems that whenever I breed horses with each other for a breeding program, the foals no matter pure or cross always come out with low evaluation scores? Even though both of their parents are for example 5* in their respective breed. Is this a glitch or are the scores purposely off the mark when they're born and slowly get corrected over time, or am I just very unlucky?
Regardless, my first impression is that the horse's parents you've chosen to match up, are either a poor match, meaning that when you add them together, their genes don't mix well, or that they're just genetically weaker specimens. There's also the possibility that just one of them is. If you try crossing them to another set of partners and one keeps offering poorer quality offspring, then you have your culprit. However, if they both offer much better quality offspring, it could be that they just don't mix well with each other.
More information may aid the community to help pinpoint what your issue may actually be. It also depends on what you're looking to achieve.

Re: Question on Breed Evaluations
Sorry, I guess I didn't specify that much. I'm trying to breed more Sorraias for another project, but whenever i evaluate them (the foals) using the breeder's book to check that they're still have good measurements and stuff for it the eval seems to come out bad considering both parents have 5*. It's also been happening with a few other of my horses however the foals were crossbreeds so i wasn't expecting them to turn out very well. Though now that I'm looking at one of the parent's offspring(s) I'm thinking I found the faulty horse. Thank youBlackOak2 wrote:Lower evaluation scores for conformation page? Breeder's report? or HGP?Felius wrote:It seems that whenever I breed horses with each other for a breeding program, the foals no matter pure or cross always come out with low evaluation scores? Even though both of their parents are for example 5* in their respective breed. Is this a glitch or are the scores purposely off the mark when they're born and slowly get corrected over time, or am I just very unlucky?
Regardless, my first impression is that the horse's parents you've chosen to match up, are either a poor match, meaning that when you add them together, their genes don't mix well, or that they're just genetically weaker specimens. There's also the possibility that just one of them is. If you try crossing them to another set of partners and one keeps offering poorer quality offspring, then you have your culprit. However, if they both offer much better quality offspring, it could be that they just don't mix well with each other.
More information may aid the community to help pinpoint what your issue may actually be. It also depends on what you're looking to achieve.

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Re: Question on Breed Evaluations
In my opinion, Sorraias are a pain.Felius wrote:
Sorry, I guess I didn't specify that much. I'm trying to breed more Sorraias for another project, but whenever i evaluate them (the foals) using the breeder's book to check that they're still have good measurements and stuff for it the eval seems to come out bad considering both parents have 5*. It's also been happening with a few other of my horses however the foals were crossbreeds so i wasn't expecting them to turn out very well. Though now that I'm looking at one of the parent's offspring(s) I'm thinking I found the faulty horse. Thank you
Keep in mind that although the evaluation is supposed to mark the adult horse, I've noticed that foals on the edges of height allowances sometimes will evaluate outside of the height requirement and then inside of it as they grow up.
Good Luck.