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Never having been around horses * domestic, or wild — while ({rowing up, she admits* that she was* a bit timid around tho horses at first, Sho touts tho wonderful disposition of tho brood, addin# that they are “almost too friendly." as they tend to mob around visitors in their field.’eager for attent ion. They are a hardy brood, rarely using the shelter Dixon provides in their turn out field, instead preferring to run and play in inelement weather,
Dixon has since built up her herd to include two stallions, two fillies, four mares and a new addition, a young colt she obtained from Alabama for the purpose of adding genetic diversity to her program. She has been searching the country for more Tarpons to odd to her herd.
“I want to buy all of them that I can," she explained, adding that the breed desperately needs help to keep from .becoming extinct once again. She has a breeding program of her own, but does not plan to sell any of the offspring, hoping instead to add new genetic material (such as that of her young colt) and build up the numbers in her herd. She is considering the possibility of embryo transfer in the fut ure.
There are a few other individuals in the U.S. breeding Tarpons, and they cooperate among each other to avoid inbreeding Dixon Ipis promised stud service to one of her stallions to two breeders. There is a breed registry in Canada, but Dixon feels that the only way to determine a true Tarpon's
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