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It Would Be Interesting

Neighbors here took a few horses to the sale last week. Their grandaughter rode them through the ring. After the $60.00 entry fee and various other selling charges they netted an average of $11.34.

I guess if a person didn't pay for the horses they aquired, didn't feed them, wrote off their gas money for hauling them and could turn over about 300 a month, a guy might make wages.
 
http://www.bcsalering.com/showthread.php?t=27821&page=3

This is where I'd like to sell horses some day-the good ones sell extremely well-not sure if I could of passed that mare at 42,000 though.
 
I think you may be up to something with running the mares vs. cows thing, NR. Those old mares can foal with no assistance. Dad ran horses from 1958 until his death in 1990. At the peak, we had 140 head total, and out of the 60-70 mares who foaled every year, we only ever had any problems with 4 mares during all those years, and 3 of those problems happened in the same year, so I guess the law of averages caught up with him. I have an old mare who was foaled in 1984, she's still in good shape and if I hadn't sold my stud, she'd still be having colts. I will probably have her teeth floated this fall, and the only feed she gets is pelletted.

You won't know unless you try, but I think you are on the right track.
 
Well as my lonmg suffering wife will attest I'll try anything once lol. The hard thing is gettiong trips on your young horses but I've got some thoughts on how to get that accomplished. I've lost one mare over all the years we ran horses-the yotes might of got her foaling there wasn't enough left to tell when I found her.

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Here's a 21 year old mare with her June foal-she's in pretty decent rig for raising that big filly-I hope her boyfriend put a full sister to that one in place for next year. I've sold quite a few teams over the years-Scotch and Soda, Bums and Chums, Nuts and Bolts, Tess and Tickle, Becky and Bunny-they all were out of that old mare and her sister. I bought them 20 years ago for $250 apiece and told Shauna I'd sell them the next spring and double my money-guess I'm a bit late lol.
 
No most people have a pencil. That and they know the value of their grass.If I could trade every cow for a horse and shut off every piece of eqipment for one year I'd be broke come shipping day 200 calves = $140,000 here this fall 200 colts $25x200 $5000 you don't have to be real smart to do the math.

The horse deal is over for now and until people quit breeding mares like mice it will never improve.
 
also think about how much a horse will eat. a cow has her fill, she lay down and chew her cud for a while. a horse hardly ever picks their head off the ground.
 
I guess what a guy could do is charge a grass cost to the mares while they are grazing. There isn't alot of opportunity cost because if the horses don't winter graze it nothing does. I`ll have to record where they are at throughout the year. A bored penned up horse can and will eat it`s head off for sure.
 

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