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Veteran
Posts: 144
 
Location: East TN | I'm in this situation currently! My sweet sweet older gelding is up for sale simply because i don't have the room for him any more 
It's hard but i try to imagine him going to a family to be loved by a kid needing a super automatic 2d/3d step up horse. haha (wishful/hopeful thinking) |
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 Bulls Eye
Posts: 6443
 
Location: Oklahoma | I made the hard decision and just listed my once in a lifetime... Duncan (the horse in the hotel) was just listed this morning. I haven't given him the time he deserves in the last 2 years and I don't think it is fair to him to sit around. He LOVES to go out on trail and be with people. Someone will get one heck of a horse. |
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 Elite Veteran
Posts: 716
Location: who knows? | I sold one last year and was very picky to where he went. I flat out told everyone that tried him, he would only go to someone I felt he would be loved. And he did. She absolutely adores him. I cried for 2 months after I sold him, everytime she posted on facebook about him and posted pictures. I sold him for a lot less than what I could have, but I had the best feeling about the person that wanted him. |
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 Expert
Posts: 2049
Location: Utah | I get very attached to all the horses I have, and hate to sale them.... but I've only kept one of them long term. I learned my lesson that every horse has to have a price after I turned down a significant amount for one and took less than half of that for it 4 years later. After that huge loss, I decided that there comes a point it has to be "business". Every horse on our place has a price tag, and if someone wants to give me that amount, then they go. Sometimes I "market" them and sell them, and sometimes I just have people ask. I have been very lucky to know where most of the horses that I have sold have landed, and it has been just as much fun for me to watch them with their new owners as it was to run them. As hard of a decision as it was to sale some of them, it was always for the best. |
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 Professional Amateur
Posts: 6750
Location: Oklahoma | I haven't read all of the responses, but I can tell you that I stay busy selling horses for people because they are attached and don't want to deal with selling the horses themselves. I do the best I can to find the best home possible for the horse. Now when it comes to seling my personal horses - it's so hard! I am so picky about where they go. It has to be a good fit and something I feel good about. I take that same thinking when selling client's horses, but I am not as emotionally attached and can actually get a sale done! Currently, I am a hoarder of my personal horses. I need a 12 step program to start letting people buy them! |
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 Regular
Posts: 96
Location: Rocky Mountains | Hardest thing in the world! I sold my very first serious barrel horse to a young girl! Which she didn't do much barrel racing on her rather than her father taking her hunting and on pack trips lol but iether way she was a happy and I was happy with the family she went to! Although she was only a 3D/4D barrel mare. |
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 "Hottie"
Posts: 1373
Location: Okemah,OK | It's extremely hard on me to sell and I have ones that I still miss. But I've always sold because I knew they could do better with someone else.... Be it just not a good match with me or I just didn't have time or room for them. I sold the last colt out of my best broodmare last summer and it was very tough. But I have an almost one year old little girl of my own and I just knew I could never do him justice with my limited time. Plus I have three older geldings and three younger fillies out of that mare and her daughter. It just worked out that he was the only young gelding (yearling) that I had and I so I made the call that he was the one to be sold. Still tough to do though :( |
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