09/07/2025
Is anyone actually buying horses? 🏇
Are there just too many on the market at the moment?
It is getting harder and harder to do this job and financially keep going and unfortunately I don't see it getting better anytime soon, so what do we do?
We have loads of people as well keep messaging about horses and they have messaged me over and over about loads of different horses over the months and even years and they have never once been to see any of them!
More and more people are just looking for loans or have a budget that is so small it doesn't cover half of what it has cost us to keep and produce the horses 🤷♀️
It isn't worth selling them for peanuts because we are running at a financial loss but if we don't sell them we risk not being able to keep going because they are costing us so much to keep!
What are the answers?!
I actually have no idea! 😩
It is a ridiculously hot and dry summer which is great for everyone enjoying it but we are crying out for rain so we can get some grass growing again. Our feed bill since spring has been 4 times what it was through the winter when we actually had grass and we are feeding more hay than they have ever eaten throughout a summer.
I could just sell to anyone and we would have some money in the bank but I am just not finding the right people for them yet and as you all know by now that is always my priority.
I want these horses to have the absolute best homes possible and although I appreciate that many people have contacted me offering them 5* homes where they will want fo nothing but they have no money to buy one, that doesn't pay my bills.
I will also always take offers on the horses we have to the right homes but equally don't insult me because I know how good, well mannered and trainable our horses are.
There are plenty of cheap ones out there, sold from fields or with the promises that they will be everything you want them to be in time but for all those that get lucky with one of those horses, there are far more of you that aren't so lucky and the horse that you bought turns out not to be the horse that you want or need.
All we can do is keep plugging away trying to get our horses into the right homes but please if you see the same ones advertised over and over again, it is because there is anything wrong with the horses, we just haven't found them their perfect partner yet and I am extremely fussy who has them 😉
I have replied to loads of wanted adverts, some very local to us, but no one seems to get in touch! I wouldn't post on those unless I actually thought you sounded like your home might suit one of ours. It does make me wonder why we don't get any messages back?
Do people prefer to buy from private homes and not from a retrainer?
I try not to be seen as a dealer but maybe that is what people see us as more!
And sold unseen, no we will never do that!
Our horses get the final say, they will pick you!
Anyway back to my posts, photos and endless videos and hopefully we might get some people looking and they come and meet our fabulous horses.
If you managed to read all this, well done 🤣
Photo of the gorgeous Goddess who is nearly ready to start looking for her special person 🥰
