How do you make money owning a stud or such like?

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almrc

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I'm confused. How do people make money from breeding horses? For example if I owned an Andalusian stud (which I don't but wish I did!) how would I make my money. Foals being bred, brought on, then ridden and sold on a few years later? Stallion available for serving mares?

I'm confused, how does it all work, how do you make the money? Or don't you?

No I am not opening up my own Andalusian stud, just dreaming! :D
 
Well the price of youngsters I doubt the owners are making money on breeding their own, therefore most of the money would be in standing 'good' stallions at your stud and charging mare and foal livery, foaling duties, youngster livery etc etc, plus stud fees, if you're lucky and your own mares take and the bloodlines are top notch then you could make money on the foals, but this aspect is a gamble, there are so many things that can go wrong that end up costing more than the foal will fetch that this aspect is what I would regard as a bonus!!!
 
I think that most of them now have schooling livery as well as the stud so that must bring in a fair bit ( basically they re train peoples horses and they charge per week ).....
 
Depends entirely on your set-up.
Rent/mortgage, taking Liveries as well, staff, insurance, feed, AI or live cover, etc, etc, etc I think you'd have to have a very popular stallion, or stallions, breed your own mares to him, and keep your books full to cover your costs and actually make a living.

My stallion earns his keep, I don't make a dollar profit on him, but then I don't advertise him widely. Breeding is purely a sideline. He has a few outside mares in and I breed some of my own to him and sell the foals on when I feel like it. His two year old Quarab fillys have been sold and both of them have turned out so nicely that I've had Arabian mares booked to him next year by people who have seen them...his progeny does his advertising for me.

This year he has earned enough cash to fence a 3 acre paddock (professional job, not just materials and DIY) and buy a new mower (so I can cut my own hay again) I swapped one covering for 150 bales of hay and bartered another covering for 20 riding lessons for my daughter. If I sold the 2010 colt at the price I've been offered then yes, this year he would certainly have made me a profit, still dithering though.
 
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Stand quality desirable stallions that will bring in visiting mares, try to keep your own costs down as much as possible, my work is a small developing stud we are in our fitfh year so our first gens are just starting to come out under saddle soon, we have sold a few as foals, but probably not made a huge profit on the foals due to the cost of semen, we have used a lot of foreign stallions so costly semen,

the thing that really helps us out costs wise is we have lots and lots of grass, enough to keep our youngsters out the majoirty of the year, last year they came in about october and the fields they were on were still able to bounce back and produce two cuts of hayledge this year which obvioulsy means we dont have to buy any in, we also have liveries on whcih pretty much pay for the upkeep of our own horses.
 
I would love to one day be able to have my own stud yard or at least work on one :) I am currently on a riding school which is getting a bit repetative
 
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