lucky strike. What do you all think?

[cow_crazy_101]

Hi. I was just wondering how much you all would ask for these horses. The owner wants 600.00 each. He is letting us keep what ever we make off of them. kinda like a summer job. anyway i will send pics in later.

Horse#1- Bay Gelding, 8yrsold, sound, very nice mover, quater horse-might have a little TB in him, very gentle, neck and side reins, potential jumper, Rides English or Western and more...

Horse#2- Stawrberry Roan, 3yrsold, very sound, slightly gaited but not bad, obeys leg commonds great. not sure about her gallop but her lope in very easy to sit too bare back. she rides English, very obedant. i can catch her in the field put a halter on and a rope and do what ever i want. ver gentle.

Horse#3-Bay Gelding, 5-9 years old. sound, gentle, GREAT mover. not a beginners horse. is a great english horse, smooth trot-walk-cantet-gallop.

Pictures too come later.
What do you think??

 

[Hipy]

Pricing a horse is very complicated. People buy horses for different reasons and all horses have different experiences........And a pony in one part of the country can bring literally thousands more in another........

You need to figure out what disciplines these ponies are best suited for and market them appropriately.

 

[3MR]

ask for 1k each and let them take their pic. They will try and deal you down. Even if they get you down to 700 now you made a C note. everybody is happy.

Seriously though. Whatever you sell them for remember to add you feed cost to the 600 and dont go below that. You dont want to lose money on this deal.

Call the last on an "experienced riders horse" rather than one not for a beginner.

 

[flaboy?]

I'm thinking just any of those are worth $1500 each. Training to get one to that point would far exceed $1500. Then again I would have to see them.

Coggins negative?

 

[Michelle]

Look in the local paper and see what similar horses are going for. Out here horses aren't worth jack if they're not papered or very well broke. Kids horses go for about $1500 here. Unbroke, lame, etc. stock goes for 5 cents per pound, so about $50 a head.

 

[ArrowHBrand]

Being registered will raise their prices, but if they are grade horses they may not be worth much. Their level of training also will effect their price as will their attitude, any vices they may haven, their overall appearance, and local horse market. I agree with 3MR to price them a little higher than you want to sell them for. The buyer will want to try to dicker the price down. The more a horse can do the more they are worth. We sold a Paint mare in April that could do just about anything: neck rein, spin, cut and sort cattle, games for our full asking price. Why is Horse 3 not for beginners? Bad habits or is his level of training so much better than the other two? Without knowing anything else about these horses than what you posted I would price #1 at $1500, #2 at $1200, and #3 at $1000. Number 2 being a mare is priced a little higher than #2.

 

[lilmissfit]

Just went to a sale here in Indiana. Top horse brought $485. There was a nice 3 yr gelding, greenbroke. Nicest looking horse out of the lot in my opinion. It sold so quickly at $190 I was in shock. It was a steal. Hay is going to be scarce around these parts, horses will continue to sell cheap as people can't find the hay to feed them thru the winter.

 

[Bez>]

Just went to a sale here in Indiana. Top horse brought $485. There was a nice 3 yr gelding, greenbroke. Nicest looking horse out of the lot in my opinion. It sold so quickly at $190 I was in shock. It was a steal. Hay is going to be scarce around these parts, horses will continue to sell cheap as people can't find the hay to feed them thru the winter.

No need to be shocked.

Horses are going to get cheaper yet - you wait.

Soon as the kill plants closed I saw it coming.

I watched fairly decent hoses go for less than 50 bucks not long ago.

No one wants them - they are basically a dime a dozen and papers mean nothing anymore.

You can find real good horses - ranch trained - great for cattle at sales now - almost always going for less than 500 bucks and often less than 300 bucks.

Thank your legislators for this one.

Bez>

 

[Oldtimer]

Just went to a sale here in Indiana. Top horse brought $485. There was a nice 3 yr gelding, greenbroke. Nicest looking horse out of the lot in my opinion. It sold so quickly at $190 I was in shock. It was a steal. Hay is going to be scarce around these parts, horses will continue to sell cheap as people can't find the hay to feed them thru the winter.

No need to be shocked.

Horses are going to get cheaper yet - you wait.

Soon as the kill plants closed I saw it coming.

I watched fairly decent hoses go for less than 50 bucks not long ago.

No one wants them - they are basically a dime a dozen and papers mean nothing anymore.

You can find real good horses - ranch trained - great for cattle at sales now - almost always going for less than 500 bucks and often less than 300 bucks.

Thank your legislators for this one.

Bez>

AMEN- Bez---They've canceled the majority of the horse sales up here--no buyers- and in places they've had sales, the cost of gas for hooking up the trailer is more than what some are bringing...You can listen daily to the Tradio or look in the classifieds ads and find people giving away horses-- because there is nothing else they can do with them, except shoot them...

 

[Horse Guy]

http://www.billingslivestock.com/Horse_ ... 25-07.html


SALE REPORT FOR MARCH 24-25

Appaloosa Gelding brings $16,000

Solid as a brick, strong as oxen, and many wearing a size two shoe, the kind with backcountry credentials including pack trips to day rides, hunting to trail riding, were all the buzz at Billings Livestock's "Spring Special Catalog Sale" featuring "Outfitters, Guides, Guest, and Dude horses" along with a special session of "Roans Only" March 24 - 25.

They'd packed tourists, wild game, and seen the western splendor, and quarter drafts, mules, and general using horses were the focus of the weekend's offering.

Draft cross' brought from $800 to $3,200 depending on age, size and experience while in the mule department the top three selling mules commanded $2,900 each.

Statistically, when it was all said and done, an official total of 978 head of horses - all kinds and classes - were bought and sold, with a 91.2% completed sales percentage. Horses sold to 18 states and Canada, scattering across the map from California to Connecticut.

He sold dead last on Saturday, and the final horse of the day - Hip 380 "Blue" - a 2001 blue roan draft-cross gelding - brought $3,100.

Big, blue, and gentle, the nice guy came consigned by Lee Elliott, Newcastle, WY and was purchased by Reed Clark, Smoot, WY.

Joining the BLS "High Sellers Club" was Hip 291 "Tivios Passer" a 96 ApHC Chestnut gelding owned and shown by Dottie Taylor Andrew, Filer, ID.

Shown and placed in halter, reining, and horsemanship, the fancy fellow had also been patterned on the barrels and had been roped on. Extremely broke, trustworthy, and packing plenty of eye appeal, the top-end gelding brought $16,000 selling to Karen Stepp, Boulder, WY.

In the "Roans Only Session" the top five sellers - four geldings and a stallion - averaged $5,820, leading off with the top two bringing $6,600 each.

Frenchman's Guy offspring continue their uptick at Billings Livestock where Hip 120 "Guys Firewater" sold for $15,000.

The 2004 AQHA sorrel stallion sired by the $2 million dollar barrel horse sire - Frenchman's Guy - and out of a daughter of Firewater Flit, came consigned by Wyoming Wilderness Outfitters and sold to Chris Gibbons, Worland, WY.

He'd won at the futurities, college rodeos, PRCA, and 4-D barrel races, and Hip 226 "Last Little Te" a 91 AQHA Brown Gelding x Triple Te was a solid, seasoned barrel horse offered by Carole Hollars, Sturgis, SD.

Capably shown by Jana Jaspers in the barrel horse preview, the ready-to-rodeo gelding sold to Jack Patterson, Westpoint, UT, for $8,000.

She's from his first foal-crop and a big-time barrel horse prospect plumb full of the "wow" factor, Hip 179 "Panthers Fancy Frost" an 05 AQHA Buckskin mare sired by Panther Mountain - SI105 with a race record of $459,921 - and out of a Sunfrost daughter was offered by Barbara Johnson, Colstrip, MT.

The fancy filly brought $6,250 and sold to Kylan Campbell, Harrison, Arkansas.

Loose horses rocked as the top 20 pushed over the $1,000 mark - averaging $1,096; The top five brought $1,475, top 50 averaged $875, and the top 100 averaged $700 even.

Loose horses are sold with no guarantee, no speech, and no rider.

Inclusive of all divisions - catalog horses, loose, and open consignment - complete sale averages show the top five at $10,580; top 10 at $8,305; Top 20 brought $6,567; Top 50 at $4,689; and the top 100 averaged $3667.

Billings Livestock's next sale event is set for April 28 - 29 and will feature the ninth annual "Rope Horse Special" catalog sale and regular monthly horse sale.

A jackpot team roping - open only to sale horses - will kick off the weekend's activities on Friday, April 27, where buyers and sellers alike will have the opportunity to watch the rope horses under competition circumstances.

All classes of horses will sell including mares, stallions, finished horses, prospects, and young stock. Cattle will be available to show the cutting horses, calf horses, and rope horses. Catalog deadline is April 5, with a supplement printed for later entries.

See it all at http://www.billingslivestock.com or contact Bill and Jann Parker, BLS Horse Sale Managers at 406-245-4151.