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Hello!
I need some help! I have been offered a beautiful filly, but I have very little experience with youngstock, and have actually never taken a foal on myslef. Her great grandfather is Primitive Rising, and her dam is by Rough Stones, and she came from the Whorridge Farm Stud. I have the option of keeping this foal on a friend's land, where much as I won't be able to see her everyday personally, she will be handled, but will be living with 2 other young horses, so she will hopefully learn a lot of life's rules from them!
I am being asked £2000 for this filly, from a woman I trust, and having seen all her horses, including nearly everything that is related to this filly, i am confident that all goes well, this should be a nice little horse.
Please can someone give me some advice as to whether this is something, as a university student with little to no very young horse rearing experience, I should be doing!

Thank you very much fro reading this far if you have!!!

Kate
 
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with little to no very young horse rearing experience, I should be doing

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Not without the very best back up systems. I.e people that can help you along the way.......
 
Why not? Everyone has to start somewhere, so might as well be now as any other time, but as Amy says, only if you have the back-up with knowledgeable people around you. Good luck.
 
I have two owners who are at University and bought foals whenthey started, they come to visit every few months and the foals seem to know they belong to them.
They don't get handled daily here but run within a herd and get stroked etc and touched, but they soon come to once caught in headcollars etc.
You need to budget for any illnesses the foal may get, worming, lice treatments and the odd foot trim. A foal may benefit from a rug this first couple of winters.
We rug some of ours but not the ID types, they grow huge teddy bear coats anyway.
One filly here is going to Yorkshire Riding Centre to be backed when a three and a half year old, her owner is at Leeds Uni and it makes more sense to do it near to her, we otherwise offer to back the youngsters for owners.
It depends on how much involvement you want, is your course very intensive, will you have time and money to keep her? Make allowances for the fact things can go wrong and you might end up moving her from that yard for whatever reason, can you cope with that?
Whorridge have an excellent reputation for their stock, so her breeding should be fine.
What I think is the most important factor is have you the confidence and riding ability to bring a young horse on from the backing stage? That's the biggest question you should be answering to my mind..
 
Thank you very much for your help! I've since been doing a lot of research. Having spoken to my trainer, and a lot of trusted horsey friends, not to mention doing a brutally pessimistic financial outlook, I'm going to go for it! I feel she's too good a chance to miss, and I am confident that I will have a strong network of support around me.
I've suddenly got much more determination to get this silly degree over and done with!

Thanks again,

Kate
 
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