Appaloosa Sport Horse Stallion by Rio's Story Girl and Waps Millinnium. He was born April 2007 and is 4 years old. He is green broke. He is able to walk/trot/canter on the lunge line and walk/trot when ridden. Has a mild disposition and is easy to handle. Currently he is approximately 16 hands tall & still growing. Due to an accident, I am unable to ride for at least a year and he needs to continue his training. I am asking $2000 or best offer to good home only. Hold the phone. You mean I can get a green broke unregistered appy stud for the low bottom price of $2k? Look at that face! That back. Santa, put this guy back under the tree. 
Girlie's Confetti Girl was born on April 22, 2009. She was bred by Rio's Story Girl and Waps Spot. She would make a very good Dressage, Hunt Seat or Western horse. She is just beginning her training. She should mature to about 15.2 hands. Confetti Girl is a very flashy appaloosa horse! I am selling her because I am currently going through divorce and need to downsize to 3 horses. I am very tall and prefer horses that are at least 16.2 hands tall and she will not be that tall. She is currently in a run-in shed pasture and gets along well with other horses. Her disposition is quiet and she is very friendly! I am selling her at an extremely low price that is much lower than her Stud Fee and will be very concerned about her new owners as she will only go to a good home! Three guesses as to who fathered THIS lovely lady! Actually, no. I’m in a bad mood, so you get one guess…. DING DING DING! You got it. Daddy is none other than the gooooorgeous appy stud featured above. So what is it, lady? Are you selling your horses because your back is hurt, or because you’re freakishly tall? A better question: if you’re asking $500 for this filly and that price is “much lower than her Stud Fee” how MUCH are you getting for pimping No Back out? 
1 mare bred to paint stallion for a paint baby, the other 2 bred to a AQHA stallion. The are ky bred, in BIF, AQHA, Big Money, WCHA all these have money pay outs. It’s a three for six special! Because it is SUCH a good idea in this economy to breed three nondescript mares at the same time and then try to sell them all together. Fat little suckers, aren’t they? 
Mare for sale. She looks like a TWH but we are not sure. We was told that she is around 14 yrs old & that she was broke but hadn't been rode in about 8 years however we never attempted to ride her so are selling her as a unbroke horse. She is really gentle & loves attention. Stands about 15hh. asking $200. would make a great broad mare. It is the middle of winter. Where do you think an unbroken “around 14 yrs old” mare is going to end up for $200? If you’re going to get a horse just for the sake of sticking it in your huge cow pasture and looking at it occasionally (which personally I have nothing against, as long as the horse gets basic care and isn’t skin and bones), you can’t decide eight years later to take the horse and sell it. At least not if you have a soul. 
Gypsy is a 9 y/o, 16h walking horse mare, registered with WGC's in her bloodlines. She would make an excellent broodmare, or with some work, also a great trail horse. I don't have the time to put into her that she needs, but have ridden her at Wrangler in the past...right now I would say she's not rideable due to trust issues or past training....I have not ridden her in a few months...so am selling her as "green". Excellent ground manners, a very sweet mare. Due to recent circumstances, I have decided to give Gypsy away. When someone gets on her, she shakes and starts bucking. This is beyond my scope of comprehension and I don't know what to do with her besides give her to someone that can maybe get her where she needs to be. Bring your halter, lead and trailer and she's yours. Ah, no, your horse would NOT make an excellent broodmare. What makes you think that? Her stunning conformation or her training/undiagnosed back issues? Ugh. People are stupid.
I don't know if I feel more angry or more sad over these types of postings... I think sad. For conversations sake, who do you think should be responsible for teaching horse ownership ethics in this country? I acknowledge points made on both sides of the horse slaughter debate, but the missing link is that if we don't want unwanted horses slaughtered, how do we teach people NOT to backyard breed? And teach them that they MUST find a vet clinic that will geld them? How do we teach them that once it is your horse, you have a moral responsibility to it? And what resources can we provide these owners when they can no longer afford their horse? I think non-profits in the US can do a lot more good than government organizations, but if these non-profits exist, I'm not aware of any significant presence....
ReplyDeleteWhew, long comment! But I see these ads on craigslist and they drive me crazy too!!
I highly doubt these sort of people would bother to go to horse owner meetings or educational seminars, so that would likely be more government money down the tubes. But it is a good idea, if it would work!
ReplyDeleteI think abuse laws need to be stricter, and I think it should be easier to report a horse and have it taken away. If the owner then pursues the horse in court and can PROVE he/she was taking good care of it, then you get it back. If not, then it is better off where it is now.
It would be tough to set one standard of horse care and teach it one way. Example: It is healthier and better for the horse to feed it hay 3-4x per day. Yet when I was growng up our horses only got hay 2x per day, and they were fine. I've seen horses living out with cows behind barbed wire fences with nothing but a moldy hay bale to snack on for their entire lives, and they live into their thirties! If you tried to tell that guy he wasn't treating his horse right he would slam the door in your face.
I think it wouldn't be a half bad idea if we had to license our horses like we do our cats and dogs, and pay a license fee every year. I'm not saying everyone would do it, but it would be a start. $50 per horse, $150 for stallions. That would make you want to geld all your colts likity split! And it MIGHT even cut down on the number of horses people decide to get, because only farms who could AFFORD a ton of horses in the first place would be able to pay all the licensing fees.
Just a thought.
Someone I know is looking to take the filly on.
ReplyDeleteThe app filly above is NOT by the 4yo old stallion, she is by Wap Spot. She may however be in foal the the stallion posted above her....who happens to be her maternal half brother. Nice, right?
Anon- Something I noticed after I reread my post.. was just waiting for someone to point it out *cheeky grin*
ReplyDeleteThe filly is in PA. Lancaster area, I believe, if she wants to look it up on Craigslist.
She's already been in contact, may have the filly by now. It was just ironic that someone sent me this thread.
ReplyDeleteThe Waps are great stallions, but they can only do so much. Both are improvements on the mare.
Licensing fees would certainly get heated debate in the horse world! Some townships have tried to apportion via property tax a tax/fee per horse/livestock animal on the property, and the tax proposals have always been defeated. But certainly food for thought... eventually we'll come up with the perfect solution for unwanted/ mistreated horses where everyone is happy with the plan! :)
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