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| This is for breeders, trainer & buyers. At what age do you think a performance (barrel) prospect is the most marketable? Not necessarily worth the most, but the easiest to sell for "market value" |
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| bump for more input. |
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| Long yearling, or 2 YR old. Halter broke and gentled. UNSTARTED
Edited by caboy61 2018-02-10 5:36 PM
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| Unless you have something on the ground right now you are getting ahead of yourself. There are too many factors involved. If you are ready to breed now, you are going to have at least 18 months before you have a marketable horse. Stuff happens. Trends change. It is rather hard to determine what age to sell eighteen months before the horse is ready. |
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  Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | For barrel horses, weanling and then they are hard to move until they are fancy started at 2 or 3. I personally wait until 3 to start them but sometimes get them sold as long 2's before then. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | wyoming barrel racer - 2018-02-10 7:23 PM For barrel horses, weanling and then they are hard to move until they are fancy started at 2 or 3. I personally wait until 3 to start them but sometimes get them sold as long 2's before then.
if they are the right kind, they sell at any age
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 Not Afraid to Work
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| I would say from my experience started 2 and 3 year olds sell the fastest but there are more people in that search in my experience. A lot of people like to put them on barrels but don't want to deal with first rides and the dry basics. |
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Neat Freak
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Her question was not worth the most, but easiest to sell. I offered my personal opinion as a breeder. As a trainer I would want one 2 or 3 and started nice. As a buyer the same, 2 or 3 and riding. |
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| 1DSoon - 2018-02-10 6:29 PM
wyoming barrel racer - 2018-02-10 7:23 PM For barrel horses, weanling and then they are hard to move until they are fancy started at 2 or 3. I personally wait until 3 to start them but sometimes get them sold as long 2's before then.
if they are the right kind, they sell at any age
Not necessarily. I've had some real UGLY ducklings as weanlings. As a yearling or two year old they're beautiful. |
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Location: Not Where I Want to Be | WiscoRacer - 2018-02-10 10:21 PM
1DSoon - 2018-02-10 6:29 PM
wyoming barrel racer - 2018-02-10 7:23 PM For barrel horses, weanling and then they are hard to move until they are fancy started at 2 or 3. I personally wait until 3 to start them but sometimes get them sold as long 2's before then.
if they are the right kind, they sell at any age
Not necessarily. I've had some real UGLY ducklings as weanlings. As a yearling or two year old they're beautiful.
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| Just wanted to say thank you to everyone for adding their choice! I check out the facebook sale sights, and here, and I see a ton of 2s & 3s at different stages (started VS non) and I was kind of wondering what was the most marketable. I am not a breeder for public sale- I have only bred for a foal once in my life and it was to keep him and he is 10 months old this month. I don't have what it takes to breed to sell LOL |
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Location: Louisiana | Answering as a buyer...
I plan to purchase a nice, exactly what I've always dreamed of type, colt in the next 2-3 years. I have to save up first LOL. But...
My two options/preferences would be
1) Completely unstarted, minimal groundwork, just decently gentle - up to age 3.
OR
2) Cruising the pattern 4-6yo.
Reasons...
1) I can completely take this option from the ground up and I like that option. Nothing worse than taking bad habits out of a baby that was started by the wrong cowboy lol.
2) At this point, I should be able to tell if the horse has the style I like. I would only have to do the seasoning part and start pushing more.
Just my 2 cents. I want them just about finished or never touched LOL. |
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 Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | We sell at least 90% of ours as babies. |
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| Market price starts at $1000 to $3000 of poorly bred horses to fit the
pocketbook of buyers hoping to find a super star for little money.
Or a fit for their comfortable riding style.
The more well known and successful bloodlines the price can jump
to 5k to 15k in the bat of an eye which has fewer buyers.
These are the horses with the speed and power that scares the
daylight out of weekend warriors ..
These are the ones that will take you to the pay window and make
you famous.!!
Selling is always a timed event .. whatever you are selling must
match the pocketbook and horsemanship skills of the buyer
at that specific time!!
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Location: Desert Land | I sell some babies as weanlings, but the majority of mine are sold as yearlings. |
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 A Somebody to Everybody
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Mighty Broke - 2018-02-12 10:21 AM We sell at least 90% of ours as babies.
Thats because your babys are in high demand.. you breed for quality and it really shows..  |
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Location: Gainesville, TX | Nearly all of ours have sold as weanlings. Have only had one sell as a yearling. You might make a bit more on them if they are ready to start but you have to feed them until then and pray they don’t hurt themselves. I like to sell them in the summer as a weanling. They tend to look really sharp then and market tends to be on the up since it tends to drop a little in the fall. |
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Guys Just Wanna Have Fun
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Location: OH | Southtxponygirl - 2018-02-12 6:39 PM
Mighty Broke - 2018-02-12 10:21 AM We sell at least 90% of ours as babies.
Thats because your babys are in high demand.. you breed for quality and it really shows..
Thank You, that truly means a lot to us. It has been a long long process, but we are getting there. |
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