2023 future predictions

[Lexi 123]

I decided to post this because I thought this will be a fun thread. I not very positive with my own predictions . I think the cost of living will make people sell their horses as they can’t afford them anymore Which will result in horse market flooded with horse. Owning a horse will get more expensive, I say a lot of breeders will reduce the amount of mares breed this year Due the cost of living. hopefully the war will end .

 

[Trouper]

I predict this Government will lurch on to the bitter end of 2024 not having the courage to call an election, making non-decisions, improving nothing and expecting us to believe what they say. Feel quite depressed about the state of this country tbh and can't see any light.

I agree horse owning will get more difficult but perhaps that might not be a bad thing when you think how mad things went during Covid. I think it will be a time to support the charities who have to pick up the pieces.

Sorry -- not really contributing to the "fun" aspirations of this thread!!

 

[Abacus]

I’m not sure that I have any strong sense of the future except that all signs point to a recession and financial struggle, and all that brings. Let’s hope there isn’t an even worse disaster like the last few years. And…

 

[Spotherisk]

I believe that the fall out from Brexit, Covid, Ukraine, Truss et al will take years to improve, I reckon 10 years at least.

On a personal level I am hoping life will buck up somewhat.

 

[exracehorse]

I’ve removed back shoes. To save on money. And cut right back on hard feed. So .. with five horses .. it concerns me financially. It’s the fuel increase that I’ve noticed. Going to yard twice a day

 

[Widgeon]

Sorry -- not really contributing to the "fun" aspirations of this thread!!

On a personal level I am pretty hopeful about the coming year - hopefully plenty more hacking and we might give showing a try - but on a societal and then global level.....let's not mention that

 

[KittenInTheTree]

I have decided that 2023 will be lovely.

 

[TPO]

Horse wise I think there are serious ethical questions looming.

We know that year round herd turnout is the needed option for most horses (always an exception) but with climate change, land being sold for housing and people not being able and/or willing to pay the costs of upkeeping a suitable yard horse keeping will get harder IMO.

Already so many yards only over individual turnout on postage stamps and/or turnout is severely restricted in bad weather and/or winter. More and more horses are stood in for longer and longer or 24/7.

When it's proving harder and harder for yards to provide facilities that meet the needs of horses is it fair for us to keep them?

 

[asmp]

Husband reckons he’s retiring next year. That’s going to be, um, interesting……..

 

[Red-1]

I am feeling positive on some things. I have missed work over Christmas (I am primarily retired but work part time as a TA in a primary school) so am looking forward to the new term. Mr Red went back to work, after 6 years retired, when mum looked like she was facing some pretty hefty care bills, then stayed at work when his mum was in difficulties. All parents are now gone, so he *could* simply retire again but he is planning on staying while the world is having to pay back Covid and the war in Ukraine, as insurance for our own lifestyle. I would feel mean for that, but he seems to be enjoying it too, apart from the 4.45 get-ups.

With just a few days to go, it looks like we are heading into 2023 in reasonable health, with reasonable finances, so are a lot luckier than most.

I think Covid will rumble on, but we won't be testing so there will just be a lot of cold like illnesses. I think the war will only stop when Putin dies, which I don't think will be this year. I see more Russian Oligarchs falling from hotels. I see many people not finding accommodation to rent too. I see crime going up.

I predict I will keep cycling to work, keep swimming in the lake and keep riding my horses. I seem to have a dearth of ambition but have a deposit on a camp and BH is coming back into work to start clinics etc in Feb.

TBH, same-old-same-old would suit me quite well for 2023!

 

[Bonnie Allie]

Not necessarily predictions but more hopes for 2023/24.

* energy shortages to accelerate our transfer to renewables
* ongoing challenges with Covid give us all a wake-up on zoonotic disease and how our current agricultural practices are unsustainable
* second hand becomes more if a “thing” than it is currently and we consume in a more balanced and sustainable fashion
* property prices correct to make it more affordable to own and rent
* fuel costs get us to buy local in a way we have been promising to for a longtime
* globalisation and mass produced cheap goods produced in sweatshops become undesirable to purchase
* repair and reuse is accelerated and becomes the norm
* micro-creds or stackableswill become the norm to allow us to be life long learners to keep us all very employable

Im old enough to remember the fallout from 1987 crash. It wasn’t pleasant but the learnings from it as a new career starter have stood me in good financial stead ever since. There is a whole generation who has no clue how hard this is going to be.

 

[Dexter]

Horse wise I think there are serious ethical questions looming.

We know that year round herd turnout is the needed option for most horses (always an exception) but with climate change, land being sold for housing and people not being able and/or willing to pay the costs of upkeeping a suitable yard horse keeping will get harder IMO.

Already so many yards only over individual turnout on postage stamps and/or turnout is severely restricted in bad weather and/or winter. More and more horses are stood in for longer and longer or 24/7.

When it's proving harder and harder for yards to provide facilities that meet the needs of horses is it fair for us to keep them?

You are hugely underestimating how selfish people are. You only have to look at threads on here about turnout etc to see that an awful lot of people are perfectly happy to keep horses in whatever way suits them best, rather than what suits the horse best.

 

[TPO]

You are hugely underestimating how selfish people are. You only have to look at threads on here about turnout etc to see that an awful lot of people are perfectly happy to keep horses in whatever way suits them best, rather than what suits the horse best.

I live in hope ?

 

[Keith_Beef]

I have decided that 2023 will be lovely.

I'll be doing what I can to make it so.

 

[Ali27]

I think 2023 is going to be a tough year for many people! I don’t think the cost of living crisis has hit many people yet as people still seem to be spending, eating out etc.
I just hope the war in Ukraine finishes at some point soon but not sure it will. The only positive is that it has made a lot of people much more conservative and aware of their energy use which is no bad thing.
I do hope that house prices start to fall as it’s so hard for especially young people to get on the property market!
In terms of horses, I’m not sure horse prices will go down that much but I wonder if more people will be looking at selling/ part loaning their horses due to costs. I’m lucky as I own a 5 acre field with stables and my 3 are still out happily 24/7 and only started giving them hay over the last week. I do think yards will increase their costs/ try and cram more horses in on already limited grazing. I couldn’t keep horses if limited turnout was the norm. Mine absolutely prefer being out as much as possible.
Let’s hope 2023 is better than we think?