Okie Hunter
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Registered: Jan 2012
Location: Mounds, Oklahoma
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Marketing...
I'm going to throw a few things out there for everyone to ponder.
I think the point Mr. Moore is trying to convey isn't the fact that red is better than blue. He is trying to state the fact that a red colored English stud has a more viable market than a blue one. I agree with him under that premise and here's why.
If you look at all the English studs that have produced a great number of pups, most are red in color. I am merely talking total number of pups here, not the overall quality. Blue Boy II (Junior) produced over 1,000 pups and he was blue, but it was after he made the final four in the ACHA World Hunt for the second year in a row that helped Jr in getting a lot of those females bred. I think you will find that very few blue colored studs have produced more than 1,000 pups, even 500 for that matter.
I am one of those that can speak from experience in the marketability of a red stud versus a blue stud. In the mid to late nineties, I studded a UKC Grand Nite blue english with an amazing pedigree. I advertised him a lot back then and he threw some winners. However, he only sired a little over 200 pups. He was advertised during the same time line as Michigan Swamp Rooster and Rooster bred ten times the number of females to what I bred to my blue male.
I am willing to bet that there isn't a blue male in the last fifteen years that has sired over 300 pups.
Me, I couldn't care less what color I am leading. I have had good blues, reds and tri-coloreds. But, having said that and my experience with promoting a blue stud in the past, I doubt I will ever have another blue stud for the public. It is too much of an uphill battle to climb. You almost have to win the World Hunt to have success with promoting a blue stud in today's day and age.
I think the topic of there "isn't any good blue studs since Jr" was taken out of context. The real basis of the opinion, I believe, was it is much harder to have success studding a blue male than it is a red one.
Hope I didn't upset anyone and was able to shed some light on the subject based on my experience.
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