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The cost of keeping horses at home: The good, the bad and the really, really ugly.

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  • #21
    Hand up!
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    • #22
      May I join? I keep 5 at home, and I think I do it at a pretty low cost for minimal pasture, runs and bedded stalls. I show and formally bred my own also.
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      • #23
        I will - have 4 at home.

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        • #24
          Can I play? I don't have them at home, but I rent a place and am solely responsible for all care (and, most importantly, all check-writing ).
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          • #25
            <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lord Helpus:
            ....I would like to invite people who keep their horses at home/ or who are 100% responsible for all care/feeding etc. of their horses, to a PT......
            My hopes are that we can/will feel comfortable sharing costs, cost saving tips, where not to try to save money (no way am I buying hay straight out of the field, honies...) etc.... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

            well I DO pick up my hay from the field - and to do so I had to purchase a trailer to carry it but I have now used it for many other things so I don't think I have to amortize its cost into the cost of the hay

            my costs per horse are a bit difficult as I am feeding 2 horses, 1 pony, 2 goats and 4 sheep from the same budget -- the two horses each get 2 scoops of Strategy per feeding and the other 7 beasties get 2-3 scoops once per day

            everyone gets free choice hay/pasture
            Nothing says "I love you" like a tractor. (Clydejumper)

            The reports states, “Elizabeth reported that she accidently put down this pony, ........, at the show.”

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            • #26
              <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">horse are a bit difficult as I am feeding 2 horses, 1 pony, 2 goats and 4 sheep from the same budget -- the two horses each get 2 scoops of Strategy per feeding and the other 7 beasties get 2-3 scoops once per day </div></BLOCKQUOTE>


              horses also get sunniflax, probiotics and hoof supplement
              Nothing says "I love you" like a tractor. (Clydejumper)

              The reports states, “Elizabeth reported that she accidently put down this pony, ........, at the show.”

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              • #27
                I'll join in. I keep 4 horses at home, on 36 acres in Colorado.
                "Ponies are a socially acceptable form of child abuse." - said by a friend when asked if she was going to find a pony for her 5 year old daughter.

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                • #28
                  Add me too please!

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                  • #29
                    I have 2 at home in the Midwest now, but since I am seriously considering relocating to Southern CA I would be really interested in hearing from people in that part of the country
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                    • #30
                      so count me in. we started from scratch and are still itching

                      bought the raw land (25 acres) and are doing everything from the ground up. we currently have a horse and pony on the property.

                      left on our the 'to do list':
                      run water to the barn
                      finish out the stalls
                      finish the loft
                      barn lighting
                      barn aisle
                      ...
                      * trying hard to be the person that my horses think i am

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                      • #31
                        Me, Me, Me!!

                        Two horses, two mini-donks, and struggling to stay afloat with rising costs of *everything*!!
                        "One person's cowboy is another person's blooming idiot" -- katarine

                        Spay and neuter. Please.

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                        • #32
                          Add me in.

                          I am looking for a place, and also do my own care, etc.

                          One horse (me)

                          Two horses (parents house)
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                          • #33
                            Jacksmom...you will soon find that your "do-to list is NEVER finished!!!
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                            • #34
                              Please count me in, I have 2 at home..............
                              "Why would anybody come here if they had a pony? Who leaves a country packed with ponies to come to a non-pony country? It doesn't make sense!"

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                                #35
                                WOW! Holy Gamoley!

                                And this is in the first 90 minutes!!!

                                Answer to one question: Yes, we will probably post bottom line figures and ranges of costs. But to get them, individuals have to submit their own costs, and this is better done in (semi) private.

                                RULE # 1 of a PT is: What you hear in a PT stays in a PT, unless everyone agrees that the information is ok to be posted elsewhere. But the consent has to be unanimous.

                                Answer to another question: Why you won't see me saving money be buying hay straight out of a field: I could say that I store my hay in my loft and so I won't buy hay that hasn't been sweated. And that would be (and is) true. But the other reason is that hay is invariably cut and baled in the summer. When it is sunny. Which means it is hot out. And buggy. And, after the bottom row, stacking hay on hay wagons gets pretty high. I am old. My back is even older. I have stacked my tons of hay. I was stacking hay in the 1960's, you little whippersnappers... Everyone should be required to stack a minimum number of tons of hay in their lifetimes, and I have done mine.

                                No more. No way. No how.

                                I be buyin' it cured, delivered and stacked, now. I offer those nice men a big pitcher of ice water as I sit back and watch them work. Then I write the check for whatever they want to charge me.
                                "He lives in a cocoon of solipsism"

                                Charles Krauthammer speaking about Trump

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                                • #36
                                  You can count me in - I own 7 horses and 4 are currently at home.

                                  Whatever you THINK it is going to cost you, it WILL cost more!

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                                  • #37
                                    lol. Sure, I'll join in.


                                    ETA. Perhaps we can also discuss the added fiscal dimension of staying under CAUV (commercial agricultural use valuation), for those of us who bought property that was in that program or a similar situation. I have to show a profit 2 of 7 years. At the end of year 1, I already have auditors peering over my shoulder...
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                                    • #38
                                      I have kept horses at home and boarded, now board. The big thing in keeping horses at home are "hidden" costs: horse-sitters if you ever have to go away, infra-structure needs (footing, fencing, on-going maintenance, equipemnt) and of course the real biggy: your time. I'm happy to share my experiences.

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                                      • #39
                                        I'd like to join in too! I have three horses, a pony, and a donkey at home.
                                        I would like to think I will die an heroic death...

                                        But it's more likely I'll trip over my dog and choke on a spoonful of frosting.

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                                        • #40
                                          <BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lord Helpus:
                                          .......Answer to another question: Why you won't see me saving money be buying hay straight out of a field: I could say that I store my hay in my loft and so I won't buy hay that hasn't been sweated. And that would be (and is) true. But the other reason is that hay is invariably cut and baled in the summer. When it is sunny. Which means it is hot out. And buggy. And, after the bottom row, stacking hay on hay wagons gets pretty high. I am old. My back is even older. I have stacked my tons of hay. I was stacking hay in the 1960's, you little whippersnappers... Everyone should be required to stack a minimum number of tons of hay in their lifetimes, and I have done mine....... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

                                          but LH - those whippersnappers looking for ways to save $s should be thinking about this as an option -- plus, they need to meet that minimum tonnage
                                          Nothing says "I love you" like a tractor. (Clydejumper)

                                          The reports states, “Elizabeth reported that she accidently put down this pony, ........, at the show.”

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