The objective of this thesis is to compare methodologies of judging the exterior and performance of three-year-old (possibly older) mares of warmblood breeds in the Czech republic and in selected European horse breed associations. The mare exterior and performance assessment results can be used as reference material in breeding programmes. The subject of comparison is methodologies of assessing mares of Czech Warmblood, Holsteiner horse, Hanover horse, Oldenburg horse, SF, KWPN, and Austrian Warmblood. The attributes and properties being the subject of evaluation have been divided into certain groups and these groups have been compared based on their percentages made up of overall scores among individual breed associations. In the thesis, a set of 2197 mares of Czech Warmblood entered in the studbook and having passed performance tests in the period of 2005 ? 2012 is investigated. Fundamental statistic characteristics are determined such as a number, score average, standard deviation, minimum, and maximum. In order to evaluate possibilities for selection intensity, decile bands have been identified for selected attributes and properties - such as exterior in entering in the studbook, performance tests, trot, and canter of entries in the studbook. Inasmuch as the values determined in each decile considerably vary, especially in reference to judging the trot and canter mechanisms in entering mares in the studbook, it is necessary to weight the successfulness of using these indicators as selection criteria. The variability in values being determined and their levels that do not correspond to normal distribution, indicate lack of objectivity in assessing the horse movement mechanism in entering mares into the studbook. Average scores are for exterior = 7.50, performance = 7.70, walk = 7.49, and for trot = 7.50.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nusl.cz/oai:invenio.nusl.cz:154244 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | VEJVODOVÁ, Pavlína |
| Source Sets | Czech ETDs |
| Language | Czech |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess |
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