How much for a horse with sarcoids?

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I am looking to buy a horse with one small sarcoid. (6 year old, sarcoid on inside front let). Vet has said it would not stop her buying. But I think it does affect the price. Price (when I didn't know about the sarcoid) was £7,500.

How does the sarcoid affect the price? Everyone says the horse should be cheaper, but how much?

Hope you can help me!
 
My vet said take off the cost of treatment (mine was under £200).

Alternatively, walk away and find a healthy horse. Have you checked if your yard will take a horse with a sarcoid? (some won't).

If you have your own land, are there other horses there? There's a link to flies: I'd be wary of taking on a horse with sarcoids.
 
Hypothetically...Subtract the cost of treating it for sarcoids properly with liverpool cream for example plus several vet call outs to apply it so perhaps £1000,

and subtract the cost of treating them again because they recurr so £2000...

But then can you put a price on the angst, lost time competeing due to treatment etc?!?
 
You need to be very very careful. No insurance company would insure this horse for anything remotely connected with sarcoids. If sarcoids popped up anywhere else on this horse and/or became aggressive or were in a place that meant the horse couldn't be ridden (eg tack), then you could find yourself with a very hefty vets bill and, possibly, an unrideable horse. Think it over carefully.
 
If the horse is perfect in every other way then I would probably buy it - although I would want to discuss the type of sarcoid and best treatment options with the vet who has seen it. MANY small sarcoids can be quickly and easily removed by banding - with or without cryo - or with cryo on its own. The cost of this should be less than £100.

If the seller was smart, they would have done this before offering horse for sale - then you wouldn't have known about the sarcoid (and no risk of exclusion on vet's fees insurance.)

If the horse was fairly priced at £7,500 (without the sarcoid) then I think I'd offer £6,500 and be prepared to go to £7,000. Although the odd sarcoid CAN go on and be a total nightmare, the vast majority don't cause further trouble if they are properly treated.
 
cinammontoast said:
My vet said take off the cost of treatment (mine was under £200).

My horses treatment was over £3500

luckily he was insured!

he is totally fine now almost a year on.
But i know he is in the sarcoid category now!

Im not sure it would totally put me of, depends on the horses, how ell its suited and what the out come of treatment is likely to be.
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I've had three horses (at different times I should add) with sarcoids.

The first was in 1987. An Anglo Arab with a flat sarcoid right where the girth ran. I didn't actually notice it until he was backed and it started to bother him. I had it cryotherapied once and it went completely - never to recur and none appeared anywhere else on his body in his lifetime. Treatment cost, can't remember!!! :D

Next horse was in 2000, a 2 year old TB mare with three small round lumpy sarcoids on her chest just between her front legs. Those were treated with Liverpool cream: 3 applications over the course of a week. All 3 disappeared quickly. I sold her 2 years ago, but she's never developed another sarcoid. Treatment cost in total was £280.

Last was 2009, a WB with a multitude of different types of sarcoid around and between the upper hind legs. These were treated with Liverpool Cream and all quickly disappeared, although have left some scarring inside the back legs. So far, none have recurred. Treatment cost, £320.

Although aggravating at the time, I've not been put off a horse with one or two small sarcoids. Even the last horse, which had a variety of 9 or 10 sarcoids, was treated quite successfully over a relatively short period. I should add, all the horses I've had experience with were young, under 4 years of age and were treated quickly. Don't know if that's an influencing factor in the success of treatment and non-re-occurence?
 
Its unfortunate if you already own a horse and it starts getting them, personally I wouldn't buy a horse with any.
 
Box_Of_Frogs said:
No insurance company would insure this horse for anything remotely connected with sarcoids.
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Very true. My horse's sarcoid became excluded, despite it never having needed treatment or caused a problem, just because the insurance company saw it mentioned on the clinical history sheet as having been examined (incidentally at a routine vaccination visit) when claiming for something completely different.
 
Spyda said:
I've had three horses (at different times I should add) with sarcoids.

The first was in 1987. An Anglo Arab with a flat sarcoid right where the girth ran. I didn't actually notice it until he was backed and it started to bother him. I had it cryotherapied once and it went completely - never to recur and none appeared anywhere else on his body in his lifetime. Treatment cost, can't remember!!! :D

Next horse was in 2000, a 2 year old TB mare with three small round lumpy sarcoids on her chest just between her front legs. Those were treated with Liverpool cream: 3 applications over the course of a week. All 3 disappeared quickly. I sold her 2 years ago, but she's never developed another sarcoid. Treatment cost in total was £280.

Last was 2009, a WB with a multitude of different types of sarcoid around and between the upper hind legs. These were treated with Liverpool Cream and all quickly disappeared, although have left some scarring inside the back legs. So far, none have recurred. Treatment cost, £320.

Although aggravating at the time, I've not been put off a horse with one or two small sarcoids. Even the last horse, which had a variety of 9 or 10 sarcoids, was treated quite successfully over a relatively short period. I should add, all the horses I've had experience with were young, under 4 years of age and were treated quickly. Don't know if that's an influencing factor in the success of treatment and non-re-occurence?
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I think it does, the quicker they are treated the better
 
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