Horse Market: Ponies for Sale
May 7, 2008 by Daniel Beatty DVM · 1 Comment
Although the horse market is slow, there are still some good quality horses and ponies for sale. Prices may not be the best but for those really interested in their breed and furthering the development of it, breeding continues. It will be interesting to see the numbers of this years foal crop – will they be down, will the lower prices of horses and the higher cost of care really affect how much breeding was being done? The problem – horse breeders would have had to know how bad the market was going to be a year ago, as it takes 11 months to cook a baby horse – (the length of pregnancy is 10 to 13 months in horses), so how much lower will the foal crop be his year? I am pretty sure that this years breeding season which is in full swing right now will be slower reducing the numbers for next year, but we shall see about this years number.
In the meantime check out this foal from The Pony Place USA – They are sure very cute. This one is 4 days old at the time of the pic…
Thanks for the Plug Dan! That is Ambition or “amy” around the barn. She has a related 1/2 brother Yosemitee Sam who is also bay and white. They are by a Welsh Cob stallion and out of 1/2 Welsh 1/2 Shetland mares. We also had USA’s KayZee born on my best friend’s birthday, a bay and white shetland filly and our Morgan foal at the Horse Quarters (still unnamed) that is called Pheobe for now!
We have cut back some breeding. I have bred 1 outside mare. 1 Shetland mare ( for a breeders Sweepstakes program) 1 mini(someone showed interest in a foal from that cross) and 1 Welsh Cob (Mare and Stallion in their 20’s and have valuable old bloodlines up close)
And yes there are ponies for sale!!!!
Thanks Again be seeing you soon for teeth!!
Cindy