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Location: TN | Just curious on everyone's thoughts...
When looking at purchasing a weanling or prospect of any age do you prefer to buy a colt or filly? Why?
Edited to add: if they are both bred equally well. :)
Edited by KatieMac88 2018-02-06 10:55 AM
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Don't matter what gender they were, as long as they are bred the way I liked and got the built. |
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Married to a Louie Lover
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Location: Freestone TX | Filly. If she has a career ending injury, she will still have value as a broodmare. |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | NoNoBadGirl - 2018-02-06 10:03 AM Filly. If she has a career ending injury, she will still have value as a broodmare.
This is an excellent point, but I just don't care to ride fillies. So if I am wanting to ride myself, I get a colt. |
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| I like fillies. Had 2 geldings prior...one would give me the world, the other one is an ass. Had 2 mares before these two, and both would give the world.
I just like the girly attitudes that come with mares. So that's why I bought a filly. I probably should have bought a gelding....since it's a bit messy when she's in heat. You can't tell it with her, but the boys are stupid. |
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Location: MN | OhMax - 2018-02-06 10:57 AM We’re gelding people, personal choice.
Same here. Personal choice and seem to be more willing with less attitude, in my experiences. |
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Location: TN | NoNoBadGirl - 2018-02-06 11:03 AM
Filly. If she has a career ending injury, she will still have value as a broodmare.
This has been my reasoning for wanting a filly. I've always had geldings and loved them, but it's a nice insurance policy to know that a filly has a back-up career if she gets injured. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it. |
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Location: TN | 1DSoon - 2018-02-06 12:31 PM
always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it.
Oh I agree 100%! Just saying if she’s well bred and not able to compete due to injury (not something she would pass on to offspring like navicular or something) then it would be nice to have the option. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | 1DSoon - 2018-02-06 12:31 PM
always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it.
A big fat ditto |
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| I have a preference for geldings myself as well, but darn it couple years ago bought a mare, just had to have her and she is well worth it. LOLOL I will not breed a mare of mine unless it would be significantly cheaper to raise my own than buy. Right now I can find nice, well bred, good confirmation prospects for under 5k. EASILY..... Usually under 4k, but 5 is my max. By the time I pay stud fee, vet bills, raise the foal to age 2/3 to when they can be ridden, then trained, etc I am in WAY OVER 5k. And my vet even says the hardest part about foals is keeping them alive for 3 years.. lol And these prospects that I speak of for 5k, are BROKE, and usually ready to go right on the pattern. |
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Location: TN | FLITASTIC - 2018-02-06 1:26 PM
I have a preference for geldings myself as well, but darn it couple years ago bought a mare, just had to have her and she is well worth it. LOLOL I will not breed a mare of mine unless it would be significantly cheaper to raise my own than buy. Right now I can find nice, well bred, good confirmation prospects for under 5k. EASILY..... Usually under 4k, but 5 is my max. By the time I pay stud fee, vet bills, raise the foal to age 2/3 to when they can be ridden, then trained, etc I am in WAY OVER 5k. And my vet even says the hardest part about foals is keeping them alive for 3 years.. lol And these prospects that I speak of for 5k, are BROKE, and usually ready to go right on the pattern.
That’s an excellent point. |
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Location: Louisiana | OhMax - 2018-02-06 10:57 AM
We’re gelding people, personal choice.
Same. Bought one mare, and I'm ready for her to go. |
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Location: South Georgia | I prefer geldings.....and somehow I have this mare that I love. As much as I love her though, geldings are simpler to me and I'd still prefer a gelding. |
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | NoNoBadGirl - 2018-02-06 11:03 AM Filly. If she has a career ending injury, she will still have value as a broodmare.
Not always... :'( I had to put a 3 yr old down last year....
Im a gelding girl... so colts are my first choice, but I currently have 2 fillies lol.. ugh... save me!
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| Whiteboy - 2018-02-06 12:50 PM
I like the way my hispanic friends think...If it's not a stallion, then it's no horse at all! lol
Oh I see that every single day!!! My neighbors!!! They have about 6 studs and just as many mares. They have no business raising Andalusians ! But they " Know" everything!!! |
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Location: LouLouVille, OK | 1DSoon - 2018-02-06 12:31 PM always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it.
LOL... classic.....
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| Filly for sure. The mares I've been fortunate enough to ride, campaign and own have all had tremendous heart and have never given up. I love the grit and personality of mares, and yes, if they have a performance career ending injury, you can breed them. If she's not a mare I wanted to breed before she got hurt, then I wouldn't breed her after the fact. I do understand terrible things happen and they can die, but that can happen to any horse.
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| 1DSoon - 2018-02-06 12:31 PM
always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it.
Were probably breeding our grade mare this year.  |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | 1DSoon - 2018-02-06 11:31 AM
always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it.
and yet there are some that are cloning geldings for breeding purposes... |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | joemama - 2018-02-06 5:54 PM 1DSoon - 2018-02-06 12:31 PM always remember
just because they have a uterus, does not mean they should use it. Were probably breeding our grade mare this year.
Sweet, I think that's awesome.
it's like a pinata,,,,,,you don't know what your going to get until you hit it with a stick.
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| While I agree with the filly thing because if she gets crippled, shes a broodmare, here recently I have seen an incredible amount of mares for sale as broodmares that have never done a thing in their life. Not everything that CAN breed, SHOULD. I have also seen a lot of horses "standing" at stud that should have been cut a long time ago. Alllll of this being said I generally prefer fillies because I have been known to get along with them better. IMO they tend to have more heart/ emotion about their job and apparently I do too so we can get on the same level XD
Resale value is about the same on both being that you are going to have gelding people, and mare people, and people who don't care as long as it does its job... |
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| I have a breeding farm on 7 acres. There is no room for geldings. The few horses I've bought have been broods or fillies. I don't buy anything that I don't think is breeding worthy - with or without winnings. Almost all born with testicles are put up for sale, either still with testicles or having them removed. My DFP colt could not deal with my older stallion so he is residing elsewhere. Just no room for more than one boy here. |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | Filly! But I'm a mare person |
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Location: Alabama | Fillies for me. No gutless geldings on my place.  |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Personal choice for myself is a filly. I've been wanting filly for a few years now and when I was able to buy a filly that I loved in 2014 she died. Opps. Now I'm wondering if they're cursed because my husband's filly died 2011. Maybe we're cursed instead lol! |
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Location: North Dakota | I'd have to meet them and see who's personality I clicked with and who looked to be better built (although I know they do change a LOT). |
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| I have no preference, although I seem to have ended up with all mares as my riding horses the last 14/15 years. My show ponies I have all three though (mares, stallions, and geldings), and while I have individual horse preferences to work with, it is never gender based though and I've had favorites of varying sexes. Bred equally, I think there's still going to be one I'd be drawn to more based off of personality, or build etc. I'd go off of that before going off of gender. As others have said if well bred and worthy of reproducing you always have that option with a mare if she gets injured, but I wouldn't buy a horse solely with that intent as that isn't always guaranteed either to be successful. |
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Location: Northern Ontario | I always had a preference for fillys, but just recently bought a colt and OMG, he is so easy and chill compared to the mares I worked with. I LOVE my mares though, but from personnal expereince, I find them more stubborn, less affectionate(except when in heat), and more confident. I guess it dépends what you like. I have a mare, but have no intention and my gelding is awesome and super well bred, but he is insured so....dépends what you like. A good horse is a good horse no matter the gender |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | I have ZERO use for geldings. (That said, the best saddle horse I've ever had ws a gelding.) But now that I have mares and a stallion, geldings do nothing but cause trouble. My stallion is very kind and gets along with all other horses, no matter the gender. Geldings mess with the mares (Including trying to breed them if given the chance.) and want to harass the stallion if they get the chance. I don't need the headaches geldings cause. |
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Location: Wyoming | Filly |
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Location: Texas | I prefer fillies but that's just me. Other people hate having to deal with the possibility of painful heat cycles and attitude. Which works for me because we usually sell the colts and keep the fillies. We kept both of out 2014 babies, one gelding and one filly. They're both awesome. The only downside of the gelding is, if he gets hurt his only other job would to be a pet. |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | RacingQH - 2018-02-15 12:42 PM I have ZERO use for geldings. (That said, the best saddle horse I've ever had ws a gelding.) But now that I have mares and a stallion, geldings do nothing but cause trouble. My stallion is very kind and gets along with all other horses, no matter the gender. Geldings mess with the mares (Including trying to breed them if given the chance.) and want to harass the stallion if they get the chance. I don't need the headaches geldings cause.
and that is why we don't have any riding mares. Geldings run with the studs and mares are of course seperate with a pasture in between. I have heard horror stories of geldings killing young foals, just harrassing them. So we have never had a gelding in with the broodmares. |
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Location: Washington. (The DRY side.) | wyoming barrel racer - 2018-02-19 8:46 AM RacingQH - 2018-02-15 12:42 PM I have ZERO use for geldings. (That said, the best saddle horse I've ever had ws a gelding.) But now that I have mares and a stallion, geldings do nothing but cause trouble. My stallion is very kind and gets along with all other horses, no matter the gender. Geldings mess with the mares (Including trying to breed them if given the chance.) and want to harass the stallion if they get the chance. I don't need the headaches geldings cause. and that is why we don't have any riding mares. Geldings run with the studs and mares are of course seperate with a pasture in between. I have heard horror stories of geldings killing young foals, just harrassing them. So we have never had a gelding in with the broodmares.
Geldings are just a pain! Only with the mares for the winter/early spring. But still, once the open mares start coming in heat....... (These are not MINE, but the ones at the ranch. I have no geldings!) And some are evil enough to kill a foal just because they can! (Geldings in general.)
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Location: North Dakota -> Colorado | In this case it is entirely dependent on conformation and personal choice. Personally, I will normally pick the filly but it is to each their own. |
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Location: Southern Indiana | I’d take either but if I had to pick it would be geilding. They are just easier to get along with imo. Less temperamental. |
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Prospects... Colt vs. Filly