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| So I have a small horse flipping business on the side (from my actual 9-5 day job). And I found a PERFECT horse to flip. She's got good conformation from what I can tell so far, not started under saddle and cheap. BUT...she is cremello. Would you shy away from one this color? I personally don't know a lot of people that like cremello, so I'm not sure if this alone would make her a hard sell? So my question, would a horse being cremello scare you away? Or does color not matter enough to you to alone decide whether or not to buy? Thank you! |
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Location: Willows, CA | I had a great minded, super broke, athletic mare by Stag Olena. I hauled her as a turn back horse for a few years. When I sold her as a eight year old she brought about half of what she would have sold for with the ability that she had if she had been a different color. |
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Location: Somewhere around here | Honestly to me it doesn't matter, but I also like Paints and good looking Appaloosas. There's a lady by me who runs a cremello and she kicks everyone's butt. The only color I try to stay away from now are sorrels lol!! |
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| I've never gotten caught up on color. My grandpa used to say "you don't ride the color". But I have came across A LOT of people who get tunnel vision when it comes to color; what they want versus what they don't want. It's a crap shoot, like most horse decisions. Hahahahha! |
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Location: In the Hills of Texas | I never cared about color until we moved to Texas. I can't tell you how many one eyed horses we have seen that were paints and cremello's etc. |
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Location: Texas | I used to have a cremello, and definitely yes, color matters. Real or imagined problems such as sunburn, skin cancer, even blindness(?!) will cause people to reject cremello horses. I am not say that you will be stuck with this horse forever, but your buyer pool will be much smaller. |
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| I'm one who is HUGELY influenced by color (I know, I know. But I like what I like!). Cremello is one of the colors I won't even look at. UNLESS it's bred out the butt..... |
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| Thank you everyone for the input!! I'm pretty sure that I am not interested in her =[ After hearing the replies, and looking at sale ads, I definitely agree, she would probably be a tough sell. She's not bred anything special =p Thanks again! |
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Location: Texas | Ditto on the cancer and skin issues with light pigmented horses- paints with pink skin, apps, cremellos, etc. |
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Location: Tulsa, Ok | I admit to extreme prejudice. I would only own a cremello if it was an awesome and accomplished athlete of some note selling for cheap. All things equal I would spend more money on a plain brown wrapper any day. |
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Location: North Dakota | Katielovestbs - 2017-11-01 11:10 AM
So I have a small horse flipping business on the side (from my actual 9-5 day job). And I found a PERFECT horse to flip. She's got good conformation from what I can tell so far, not started under saddle and cheap. BUT...she is cremello. Would you shy away from one this color? I personally don't know a lot of people that like cremello, so I'm not sure if this alone would make her a hard sell? So my question, would a horse being cremello scare you away? Or does color not matter enough to you to alone decide whether or not to buy? Thank you!
Personally, I would be considerably MORE interested in a cremello than nearly any other color of horse! A boring old bay or sorrel I will scroll right past, but those beautiful blue eyes and cream colored coat will at least draw me in to look at the sale ad. |
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | LOVE cremellos and Perlinos! If they had correct conformation, good muscle, stout, and athletically inclined.... YOU BET YOUR BUTT i'd buy it!
A few years ago when i was actually barrel racing. There was this gal who had a GORGEOUS perlino gelding... and he was a nice little 1D/2D horse... had all the right moves and was so easy to be around. He was actually pretty tough to beat as he was pretty consistent and was a 1D horse more than not.
And people always say Oh what about sunburn? what about skin problems? psh... I've had paints with white noses/ eyes and never had a problem.... |
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| I stay away from Cremellos because I wouldnt want to deal with (what i call) maintenance. It would be hard for me to have an area fully covered to keep the horse from getting sun burnt and then i would have to worry how long I could ride that horse during the day, before it got sun burnt. I live in the desert. |
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Location: West Texas | There is no health issue to be concerned with for Cremellos and Perlinos. The only thing bad about them is they get dirty easy. I understand folks not liking the color, but the myths associated with sunburn, etc. are simply not true.
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| Tdove - 2017-11-07 10:11 AM
There is no health issue to be concerned with for Cremellos and Perlinos. The only thing bad about them is they get dirty easy. I understand folks not liking the color, but the myths associated with sunburn, etc. are not true.
Ditto.... Some people need too do a little more research. Here's a good site that talks about cremellos with myths and facts especially about cancer. http://www.odysseyranch.com/What%20is%20a%20Cremello!!.html |
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Location: SW North Dakota | We just got a smoking deal on a mostly white paint- finished barrel horse. He will need sunscreen, but they don't write "ugly color" on the checks... |
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Location: West Texas | WetSaddleBlankets - 2017-11-07 10:18 AM
Tdove - 2017-11-07 10:11 AM
There is no health issue to be concerned with for Cremellos and Perlinos. The only thing bad about them is they get dirty easy. I understand folks not liking the color, but the myths associated with sunburn, etc. are not true.
Ditto.... Some people need too do a little more research. Here's a good site that talks about cremellos with myths and facts especially about cancer. http://www.odysseyranch.com/What%20is%20a%20Cremello!!.html
Yep. Paints and horses with white noses and white markings sunburn and get cancer. Cremellos and Perlinos can live out in the sun along with all other horses and will not sunburn. I can testify this as fact. Hard to get more sun than West Texas summer. I have had multiple double dilutes never see the shade in 100 plus summers, except for the night time. In fact the color probably keeps them a little cooler than a dark colored horse in that scenario.
It is a shame sooo many people are not aware of this. I too was uninformed because of what I was very wrongly told about them....until I had some for myself.
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Location: Royal J Performance Horses, AZ | Hey my thought is im FINE with ya'll not buying the perlinos and cremellos! More for me with good deals!  |
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| Tdove - 2017-11-07 8:26 AM
WetSaddleBlankets - 2017-11-07 10:18 AM
Tdove - 2017-11-07 10:11 AM
There is no health issue to be concerned with for Cremellos and Perlinos. The only thing bad about them is they get dirty easy. I understand folks not liking the color, but the myths associated with sunburn, etc. are not true.
Ditto.... Some people need too do a little more research. Here's a good site that talks about cremellos with myths and facts especially about cancer. http://www.odysseyranch.com/What%20is%20a%20Cremello!!.html
Yep. Paints and horses with white noses and white markings sunburn and get cancer. Cremellos and Perlinos can live out in the sun along with all other horses and will not sunburn. I can testify this as fact. Hard to get more sun than West Texas summer. I have had multiple double dilutes never see the shade in 100 plus summers, except for the night time. In fact the color probably keeps them a little cooler than a dark colored horse in that scenario.
It is a shame sooo many people are not aware of this. I too was uninformed because of what I was very wrongly told about them....until I had some for myself.
Yep I made an assumption. Thanks for the info. |
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | For me personally yes. I now own an app who is great but blind (moon blindness) now and has horrible sun burn on his face when he doesn't have a uv fly mask on him. No one wanted him so I took him in before he ended up in a bad place, and even though he runs barrels/poles blind for a youth step up, can pack a kid anywhere, and is honestly the most bombproof horse I've ever met (we dragged a huge chicken coop with the winch of a 4 wheeler across cement and gravel 5 feet from him and he didn't move!) I can't find him a home either. People look at him as ugly (And he is so FUGLY he's cute) and with the upkeep and issues they run the other way.
As a business person I want marketable ones for the most part so if something happens they can find a new home, colour is so high up on peoples lists you can't overlook it anymore even though lots of people always say you can't ride colour .... or papers.
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