Mongolian help

[meaghanne]

Hi there, my goal is to breed Andalusians and go from there, but I'm having a really hard time breeding for mongolians. Does anyone have any advice? I keep getting Exmoor ponies which I'm going to have to start selling because I Have literally rehomed the last six rounds of breeding. I'm at my wits end. I've had some good luck with WABs but the mongolians are eluding me any help would be greatly appreciated

[EclipticEnd]

Hi there, my goal is to breed Andalusians and go from there, but I'm having a really hard time breeding for mongolians. Does anyone have any advice? I keep getting Exmoor ponies which I'm going to have to start selling because I Have literally rehomed the last six rounds of breeding. I'm at my wits end. I've had some good luck with WABs but the mongolians are eluding me any help would be greatly appreciated

Exmoors have a pretty similar eval to Mongolians which is probably the issue. They're near identical honestly.

My suggestion would be evaluating for Exmoor and discarding any that're better for Exmoor than Mongolian. It's very likely they'll be the same eval, but if you have stockier horses then that'd be better as Exmoor is more tolerant to horsier builds as they tolerate Medium Light and also Horse Type (Mongolians do not). It doesn't matter if the evals go slightly off in your mixes because the final addition of another Tarpan can bring them back on course.

Another alternative is aiming for horses that're only 2* or 3* for both so that you can get some crosses, then breeding those crosses until you get a 50% Tarpan/Prze that's 4* or 5*, at which point you breed with a Tarpan and done.

If all else fails I can certainly supply you with a Tarpan stud that's 5* for Mongolian, and I have a 5* Prze up for stud as well. I'm also currently messing with a small group of Przewalski horses that I'm trying to get better HGP on; I can certainly spare a mare if needed from them. I'm happy to help out if you need; I was preparing to make a lot of Mongolians and while I've scrapped that project, I still have some of the horses.

Good luck!

[meaghanne]

Hi there, my goal is to breed Andalusians and go from there, but I'm having a really hard time breeding for mongolians. Does anyone have any advice? I keep getting Exmoor ponies which I'm going to have to start selling because I Have literally rehomed the last six rounds of breeding. I'm at my wits end. I've had some good luck with WABs but the mongolians are eluding me any help would be greatly appreciated

Exmoors have a pretty similar eval to Mongolians which is probably the issue. They're near identical honestly.

My suggestion would be evaluating for Exmoor and discarding any that're better for Exmoor than Mongolian. It's very likely they'll be the same eval, but if you have stockier horses then that'd be better as Exmoor is more tolerant to horsier builds as they tolerate Medium Light and also Horse Type (Mongolians do not). It doesn't matter if the evals go slightly off in your mixes because the final addition of another Tarpan can bring them back on course.

Another alternative is aiming for horses that're only 2* or 3* for both so that you can get some crosses, then breeding those crosses until you get a 50% Tarpan/Prze that's 4* or 5*, at which point you breed with a Tarpan and done.

If all else fails I can certainly supply you with a Tarpan stud that's 5* for Mongolian, and I have a 5* Prze up for stud as well. I'm also currently messing with a small group of Przewalski horses that I'm trying to get better HGP on; I can certainly spare a mare if needed from them. I'm happy to help out if you need; I was preparing to make a lot of Mongolians and while I've scrapped that project, I still have some of the horses.

Good luck!

Thank you for the response! I think the post was more out of frustration than anything else. I went through a ton of breeding stuff on the forums and have been able to produce a few decent mixes that I need. It's my first time breeding from scratch so I didn't anticipate it being so rage quit inducing lol

[vallers]

Hi there, my goal is to breed Andalusians and go from there, but I'm having a really hard time breeding for mongolians. Does anyone have any advice? I keep getting Exmoor ponies which I'm going to have to start selling because I Have literally rehomed the last six rounds of breeding. I'm at my wits end. I've had some good luck with WABs but the mongolians are eluding me any help would be greatly appreciated

in my experience, using a failed cross with another usually works. you probably don't like coming to the chatroom, but if you would like help feel free to send a private message or come to chat.