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Location: North Dakota | How much do you discount a horse you are selling if it will have maintenance issues in the future? Horse has bones spurs in feet so cannot be sold as 100% sound. She moves sound most of the time but she has moments where she is about a 1 out of 5 on the lameness scale. If I could guarantee her sound I would price her around $20k-$25k. She is 1D/2D locally and 2D with limited hauling against really tough true 1D horses. Well bred, beautiful black rabicano, mare, and very very well broke with a great head on her shoulders. Because of this issue how much do I discount her? I am so hard on my horses when I price them sometimes I feel like I gave them away when I compare them to what others are selling for. |
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Location: ND | I wouldn't discount the price at all. Be honest and disclose her problems and that maintenance is needed. I'd be willing to negotiate with the right person but I'd start at the price I feel she's worth. |
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| If she is already showing lameness, I would sell her as a broodmare prospect, as spurs progressively get worse, and no one know how many days, months, yrs.
I look at quality of life for the horse, not money |
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Location: Wonderful Wyoming | Just Bring It - 2015-02-23 5:57 PM How much do you discount a horse you are selling if it will have maintenance issues in the future? Horse has bones spurs in feet so cannot be sold as 100% sound. She moves sound most of the time but she has moments where she is about a 1 out of 5 on the lameness scale. If I could guarantee her sound I would price her around $20k-$25k. She is 1D/2D locally and 2D with limited hauling against really tough true 1D horses. Well bred, beautiful black rabicano, mare, and very very well broke with a great head on her shoulders. Because of this issue how much do I discount her? I am so hard on my horses when I price them sometimes I feel like I gave them away when I compare them to what others are selling for.
I am afraid it would probably be a big discount. Any potential issue just really cheapens them up because we all know even the soundest well made ones end up with issues. Hate to just start out with them. The good thing is she is a mare and if she is running that well, hopefully she has nice papers to back her up and make for a broodmare IF she ends up sore. |
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Location: Central Montana | I would not knowingly buy one that has them regardless of the price except for maybe a broodmare or stallion. I have a gelding that has them and have been researching surgery and shockwave options to try and get rid of them but there is no guarantee and everything is very expensive. At least if he was a mare I would have the option to breed - he is a reiner with a super set of papers.
Depending on where they are the spurs will get worse and tear up the tendons, if bad enough they can severe the tendons. Not a good future for a performance horse.
Edited by GoinJettin 2015-02-23 10:38 PM
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Mine has them. She requires a lot of maintenance for them. I would sell her but because of them and some other joint problems. I will not giver her away for cheap to someone that won't continue to maintain them. So I consider her un-sellable. I'll keep her until she dies. |
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Location: North Dakota | TessBelle - 2015-02-24 8:09 AM Mine has them. She requires a lot of maintenance for them. I would sell her but because of them and some other joint problems. I will not giver her away for cheap to someone that won't continue to maintain them. So I consider her un-sellable. I'll keep her until she dies.
That is almost where I am at. I do have a couple people interested in her but I keep going around and around thinking for the price I gave them I should just keep her and continue to enjoy her myself but I have two other really solid horses and a bunch of young ones to ride so she doesn't get hauled as much. So then I think maybe I should sell her to someone that can give her more one on one time. She has had the spurs since she was 5yrs old and she is now 8 and her lameness has not gotten any worse. I am going to get some new xrays taken this spring to see how the spurs look compared to 3 yrs ago. |
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Location: In the land of peanuts and cotton | Just Bring It - 2015-02-24 8:20 AM
TessBelle - 2015-02-24 8:09 AM Mine has them. She requires a lot of maintenance for them. I would sell her but because of them and some other joint problems. I will not giver her away for cheap to someone that won't continue to maintain them. So I consider her un-sellable. I'll keep her until she dies.
That is almost where I am at. I do have a couple people interested in her but I keep going around and around thinking for the price I gave them I should just keep her and continue to enjoy her myself but I have two other really solid horses and a bunch of young ones to ride so she doesn't get hauled as much. So then I think maybe I should sell her to someone that can give her more one on one time. She has had the spurs since she was 5yrs old and she is now 8 and her lameness has not gotten any worse. I am going to get some new xrays taken this spring to see how the spurs look compared to 3 yrs ago.
October I'll be owned her 10yrs. She's taken care of me all these years so I will take care of her. She still runs in the 1D and 2D at bigger stuff. But she's close to being retired because we didn't find her spurs until last year and she has gotten worse since then. But were doing everything we can right now. I've looked at the shockwave and other things that say they will remove them but in the end my vet thinks I'll be spent a lot of money for nothing. |
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