Posted 2006-04-02 12:35 PM (#39898) Subject: Establishing Stallion Service price
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Posts: 362 Location: Allegan, Michigan
I am curious how folks set their stallion service prices? I was looking at stallion listings from show horses to race horses. Just wondering how you determine where to set the price, and how much business you get? Where do you advertise?
Posted 2006-04-03 6:19 AM (#39913 - in reply to #39910) Subject: RE: Establishing Stallion Service price
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Posts: 25 Location: Edgerton,KS
I can't believe the horses prices right now. At the last registered sale the maximum for a yealing was 125.00 the majority of them only went for 15 to 25 dollars. How can people even afford to breed them unless the own the mare and stud. I guess everyone with a stud should raise their fee to keep people from breeding just to breed.
Posted 2006-04-03 6:33 AM (#39914 - in reply to #39898) Subject: RE: Establishing Stallion Service price
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Posts: 378 Location: Nebraska
Did the article say why a stud with 10,000 dollar service fee should be the only one use. The author of the article must have thought he had the ultimate horse free of genetic defects with a vision of helping horses live healthier, and becoming rich.
Posted 2006-04-03 9:13 AM (#39919 - in reply to #39898) Subject: RE: Establishing Stallion Service price
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Posts: 362 Location: Allegan, Michigan
I agree w/hconley. I was curious on stud pricing because my cousin is standing an imported Thoroughbred Stallion this year. He is a Class Stakes winner, holds a track record at Pimlico, has raced in France, Japan, Argentina, and here in the USA. I thought she had him priced low, but here in Michigan there are not a lot of Thoroughbred breeders. There are not a lot of TB's in Michigan to compare him to. If he were in Kentucky or Florida his stud fee would be astronomical, but from what you told me, you also need to gauge by regional area and economics.
Posted 2006-04-05 2:08 AM (#39976 - in reply to #39898) Subject: RE: Establishing Stallion Service price
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Posts: 171 Location: Liberty Hill Texas
The artical stated that in order to have a quality stud and to make money in the breeding process you had to get 10,000.00 fee for him. I am not saying I agree with it I am just saying thats what the artical said.
I find most of the quarterhorses or Paints I would cross my mare with run in the 2,500.00 to 5,000.00 range I am saveing and looking till I have the cash and time to dedicate to a foal. I know a couple that have an ok quarter stud they bread him to whatever they can find. Anywhere from trade for a round bale to 250.00 seems like covering that many mares and unregestred horses would cheapen and dilute the line.
Posted 2006-04-05 6:06 PM (#39999 - in reply to #39898) Subject: RE: Establishing Stallion Service price
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Ok I will throw this in, what is the stallion breed for, what does he have that makes him a stallion prospect? When we look a stallion for our mare we ask questions, bloodlines are they good, will the stallion complaint the mare. Here we are asking is the foal that we get is better than the mare we have. Is the stallion going to improve on the weak points of your mare. One point that I think that many folks overlook is temperament. I am not looking for a pro horse, if you get it you are lucky.
And finally what are you breeding for? Which sport are you breeding for? Then narrow any search to the stallions in that area. But only if your mare can work those disciplines.
Remember unless the registary tests and regulates which ones become stallions any body can have a stallion
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