10/27/2025
“I won’t buy a weanling for that.”
This is my side job…I teach FULL time! I show, I keep calves, need tack, ropes, etc. and keep my sanity because I LOVE IT! Yep - even 3 months of 40 minute constant checks all night long.
Feeding the mare/sire for a year = $3000+
Stallions = pain the ass,
outside mares = pain the ass
Pasturing: 🙏🏻 nothing gets kicked, 🙏🏻 they keep mares/colts safe, pray for no mountain lions, eye pokes, broken legs, spider/snake bites
Cost to own pasture & pay state taxes
Won’t even go into what the foaling barn cost…cost of square bales, cost of cameras
Outcross stallion fees = $1000+
Mare AI fees $700+
Travel to AI = $400
Veterinary care:
Vaccines =$200
Deworming =$50+
Farrier=$100+
Teeth=$275+
Shavings=$100
DNA tests & color $40+
Zygosity tests 40+
So just to get the foal on the ground, WITHOUT factoring in a single stallion fee, we are at $5900 on the LOW end with no extra vet expenses.
If you purchase a stud fee and pay collection and shipping it’s even MORE.
Now add in any emergency vet care for when the foal is born or throughout the year, IgG testing, registration papers (the cost of this has gone up to nearly $200 a foal without any color testing), vaccines for the foal, dewormer, and grain. ($500+)
Not to mention all the time put in training and handling the foal so it’s a civilized member of society. That it has the basic knowledge of life so the new owner is not getting something feral and terrified of people. So you are not purchasing a lawn ornament!
If you want something cheap, my foals are probably not the place for you.
There are plenty of breeders that probably don’t vaccinate, deworm, or handle their babies and will sell their foals cheaper.. thats not me nor will it ever be. Broodmares and stallions should get the same level of care as any horse used for riding or competition.
I’ve devoted so much sweat and tears into my program to raise the best AQHA foals I can that are amateur friendly of pro quality and can go in many different directions. I’ve found mares that cross well with my stallions to produce foals that are easy to work with and be around so that people actually enjoy owning them.
I won’t sell them cheap. Don’t insult me with your lowball offer.
I have no problem selling out of foals every year and getting what they’re worth, and making sure they get in the very best of homes.
If there comes a time where I can’t give them everything they require and care starts lacking, then I would stop breeding all together. They deserve great care.
Borrowed from another breeder and altered to fit our program.
