Posted by JRSutton on October 30, 2015 at 13:19:44 from (96.237.53.59):
In Reply to: Re: New Horse posted by Dick2 on October 30, 2015 at 10:58:27:
I'm sure there is at some scale - if you've got LOTS of pasture, and mild winters. These things eat a lot. Hay prices would kill you in the northeast, probably much less so elsewhere.
We have them just for fun. Around here if you want to make money with them - there are a lot of people willing to pay you for wagon rides - weddings - birthdays - events - etc. You'd probably make more doing that than you would breeding them.
Around here there's just not much demand for them. You'd have to cart them out to somewhere like ohio - and the gas alone knocks a lot off your profit margin.
Ohio is unique in that people actually use them, so they can move them much more easily.
Out there - they typically sell at auction between about 1500 and 4500 for a young one
They prefer the Belgians. Right now anyways. You can get an average young percheron at auction for $500. Those scales tip from time to time, and people start liking the black one's better and the prices even off, or tip.
But even out there I don't know anybody that does it for a living. Though I know many that do it just for fun. Like a little side project. Sometimes they're ahead, sometimes they're in the hole.
Like anything - there is a high end market for the rich people. They'll think nothing of spending 30 grand on a horse. But to play in that world you've really got to know what you're doing as a breeder, and know what traits people are looking for - and build a name for yourself. Just a different world from where I am.
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