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<blockquote data-quote="js1234" data-source="post: 1369484" data-attributes="member: 17596"><p>Something to be said about buying or breeding youngsters that grow up in your country. We don't run a broodmare band but like to buy young horses. Bought a handful at the Babbitt Ranch sale in Arizona this past July. Haven't bought there before but have bought a lot of cattle from them and we believe in the Driftwood type of breeding for ranch horses that have to actually make a living. Try to keep one colt in each cowboys string at all times after they get a good 60 day start. They use him on suitable days and bring them along slowly becoming solid ranch horses. Cowboys are a fixed cost and we have to keep good horseflesh under them so they may as well be making them. Plus, there is a tremendous demand now for say 12-14 year old geldings, straight up in the bridle, that are off working ranches to sell to the gentleman rancher crowd. Not hard to trip those types of geldings off for $10k-15k after we've gotten 8 or 9 good years out of them on the ranch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="js1234, post: 1369484, member: 17596"] Something to be said about buying or breeding youngsters that grow up in your country. We don't run a broodmare band but like to buy young horses. Bought a handful at the Babbitt Ranch sale in Arizona this past July. Haven't bought there before but have bought a lot of cattle from them and we believe in the Driftwood type of breeding for ranch horses that have to actually make a living. Try to keep one colt in each cowboys string at all times after they get a good 60 day start. They use him on suitable days and bring them along slowly becoming solid ranch horses. Cowboys are a fixed cost and we have to keep good horseflesh under them so they may as well be making them. Plus, there is a tremendous demand now for say 12-14 year old geldings, straight up in the bridle, that are off working ranches to sell to the gentleman rancher crowd. Not hard to trip those types of geldings off for $10k-15k after we've gotten 8 or 9 good years out of them on the ranch. [/QUOTE]
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