Dutch Factory Farmed Horses

[spottysport]

In my experience, they cost a lot of money, a lot to feed - both one's I have known were un-naturally HUGE, and their owner couldn't ride one side of them! I asked my (not inexperienced) vet what his opinion was and overall their problems were MANMADE. Ie. they are breeding bigger and flashier CRAP, that is not designed to last the distance. Buying one, you might get short term success - but long term hassle! This is my opinion, from having to look one in the eye as he was shot. Not good.

 

[dieseldog]

OK - Airedale and Spottysport,

How much are people actually paying for these overpriced Mandmade, bigger falshier crap?

And how much does a british bred horse cost?

I know how much I pay for an import I'm just wondering if we are all talking about the same amount.

 

[Tia]

Oh DD you are so brave....I wanted to ask the very same question

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[spottysport]

Both ones that I know of were in excess of 6,000. That is unbroken, but with 'names' in their pedigree.
Both were very personable, lovely, well behaved boys, THAT WERE UNABLE TO LIVE IN A FIELD! They were SO carelessly bred that their skin and feet couldn't take the conditions that they were subjected to!
Names that have passed 'Gradings' are worth Jack-sh*t if the ned can't be turned out for a holiday without getting some awful skin condition!

 

[dieseldog]

But how much is an equivalent british horse in terms of talent and age cost?

Maybe they should have got them vetted? You've also describred what sounds like a TB to me, Rain Scald does happen in British bred horses as well.

 

[spottysport]

I can assure you it was not rainscald. They both came out in massive lumps as a reaction to sunlight actually. They were both dead by the time they were 6. I actually put one to sleep myself this spring, in essence due to lami. but due to the other major probs he had it was for the best.

 

[Tia]

So around the figure I was talking of then. Much cheaper than a similarly bred British horse. As I say, I believe a lot of them are budget horses, suit the rider and do the job asked of them in the majority of circumstances. Horses becoming ill is another matter and not down to breeding I wouldn't say.

 

[spottysport]

Of course it is down to breeding! Soundness was sacrificed for size and movement! If just ONE of the foals i bred was PTS for any number of illnesses, I would stop breeding from the mare - it is only common sense!!!!!!
Both the horses I have experience of are from the same lines -WITH THE SAME RESULT. Come on, the breeders on the continent can see the British coming - then they start rubbing their hands together! It's bloody disgusting. And no, a 2 yr old decently bred - but spotted or dun - from me would cost a fraction of 6,000

 

[Tia]

What did they both die from? Presumably the same thing and they were out of the same mare?

 

[Governor]

Quick reply and i've not read all the posts in this thread.

However I own one of these 'mass produced, identikit' dutch horses and like P_G, I wouldn't have bought him unless he was what I was looking for in a horse. I really couldn't give a toss if he was from Bognor or Belgium, and whether or not he is flashy or big - I was very careful about the rate at which he was growing with regards to his diet.

The fact is, the most likely reason he was over here (imported 2 weeks prior to me purchasing him) is that he is substandard compared with horses being produced over there, which gives you some indication of the general quality. But still he's a nicely put together beast with more than enough talent and scope for what I want to do.

He's not an unsocialised lunatic either and funnily enough he seems oblivious to the fact his name has been changed because the one on his papers was difficult to pronounce.

I paid a lot less for him than the figures being banded about here, and comparitive to the British bred horses here with so much 'potential'. Quite honestly i'm sick of the amount of British breeders using colour as a selling point (and an excuse to come up with ridiculously inflated prices) when the majority have diabolical confomation because that appears to have such little importance.

 

[spottysport]

They were both too big for their very flat feet (I think - remember they didn't belong to me). The one that I dealt with most this spring developed ringbone, laminitis, and arthritis all before the age of 5. He had to be shod from 2 years old. Add to this the fact that he couldn't be turned out due to sun/fly sensitivity. He could only be taken from the stable to the arena and back again. Don't get me wrong, he had a temperament to die for and could move and jump beautifully, but that's no good if the feet are stuffed. Yes, they were 1/2 brothers.