Every now and then, I get an urge to look through different horse farms across the world just to see what's out there every 5 years. Today, I was going through different Warmbloods and I noticed something kind of odd. I went through the KWPN-NA website and saw quite a bit of Dutchies that were for sale earlier in 2018. So, I decided to type into Google "KWPN for sale" (I just went generic because I was not looking for anything specific) and what came up - surprisingly - was a big roster for geldings. I am aware that there's been quite a bit of geldings within KWPN's before in prior years, but this year it just seems like there is more? Does anyone have any idea why there's a seemingly sudden spike in this breed? I did see on a farm I follow, Hilltop Farms Inc., something about Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome (WFFS), but there wasn't like a big rise and there could be some preventive measures to avoid the effects. Perhaps this is the reason for it? Or maybe the breed is going out of trend?

So I am more so just asking out of curiosity because a lot of the horses gelded have some decent lines (Least I thought they did, but I'm not an expert, they could be awful to an experienced breeder) and it just seems strange to me why you would not want that passed down to other offspring. So I'm correlating it between the new disease floating about. Especially since in the stallion directory on Warmblood Stallions of North America website, there is only 18 pages, when back in 2015 - 2016 there was way more.

From my understanding with that may be due to many of them carrying the genetics that can cause that. I am not 100% sure as to why the rise is high, but it could be linked. I read an article that more people are getting the testing done. And as responsible breeders, they are trying to remove that risk of getting WFFS. So again, that could be very well the explanation to the increase of geldings. And people selling due to whatever their reasoning behind it. 

@ Peike - That makes a lot of sense and I did see similar on Hilltop saying the exact same thing. That they were seeing it in 10% but overall there was a 6 - 11% of horses carrying the disease and studies/tests were still going to be carried out. But I haven't seen the increase in other warmblood breeds though (i.e Holsteiners, Hanoverians, Trakhners, etc.), just a smaller number of them. The only ones I'm really seeing the gelding spike in is the KWPN's, so I'm wondering if maybe that main breed is the cause? But the selling off I agree, maybe the others were selling off because they wanted to get out of breeding and avoid that hassle of having a sickly foal or gelding every stallion to prevent risks. Not sure, just found it very interesting.