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<blockquote data-quote="ArrowHBrand" data-source="post: 464065" data-attributes="member: 6496"><p>The current trend in the horse market is really disasterous. We took a yearling to an auction in April and ended up no saling him because he sold for $100. Nice nice horses were selling for under $600 and well trained saddle horses were going for under $2000. Over breeding, hobby breeding, and the ban on horse slaughter is all coming together to bring the market down. Hobby breeding just downright angers me <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite4" alt=":mad:" title="Mad :mad:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":mad:" /> because these people have no clue to the ramifications to everyone else. Having a foal just to have a foal is unexceptable. When we breed, we didn't this year, we breed for a purpose: game horse, cow horse, pleasure horse, etc. A family member was asking my wife and I about breeding her hubby's childhood mare that his dad had been taking care of and now is at their place. They were only going to breed to "teach their children about mama and baby horses." We strongly, strongly told them not to, but to go to the sale barn and by a weanling for a couple of hundred. They haven't bred yet and hopefully will refrain from buying too because they just aren't horse people. Very frustrating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ArrowHBrand, post: 464065, member: 6496"] The current trend in the horse market is really disasterous. We took a yearling to an auction in April and ended up no saling him because he sold for $100. Nice nice horses were selling for under $600 and well trained saddle horses were going for under $2000. Over breeding, hobby breeding, and the ban on horse slaughter is all coming together to bring the market down. Hobby breeding just downright angers me :mad: because these people have no clue to the ramifications to everyone else. Having a foal just to have a foal is unexceptable. When we breed, we didn't this year, we breed for a purpose: game horse, cow horse, pleasure horse, etc. A family member was asking my wife and I about breeding her hubby's childhood mare that his dad had been taking care of and now is at their place. They were only going to breed to "teach their children about mama and baby horses." We strongly, strongly told them not to, but to go to the sale barn and by a weanling for a couple of hundred. They haven't bred yet and hopefully will refrain from buying too because they just aren't horse people. Very frustrating. [/QUOTE]
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