Is buying horses to produce and sell worth it?

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halcyyon

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Just having a think about what I'm going to do horsey wise when I move to the UK. Buy a nice horse and stick with it- or continue buying cheap/free horses + ponies with good head's on them with decent conformation, train them up and sell them on. But without my own yard in the UK- having a think about livery costs, would they even end up paying for themselves? :p
 
As you would be paying livery then you will need to think about it very carefully, if you have a quick turn around and the pony sells quickly then you should make a profit, however if you end up keeping the pony for a while, then livery will soon starts to mount up.
 
I think if you regarded it as a hobby - you would have a horse anyway and have to pay for it, and aimed to buy and sell on later then it might work. The problem is that you might have one that doesn't come right for ages/never and you can't sell it, or you just get fed up with having to start again from scratch all the time.

Most people who do this DO have their own land and probably also their old favourite they can climb onto when they get fed up with present trainee!
 
I guess if you're paying livery costs either way, then buying cheap, producing and selling is going to be more profitable than the alternative of buying something already done (probably not 'cheap') and keeping? Assuming all other things equal?
 
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i also agree, horses are cheaper at the moment but there seems to be so many "producers" now then just dealers that everyone thinks just schooling for a week and taking to a xc schooling that they can add £1000's on a horses price
 
I would echo what has already been said. If you have your own land to keep them on then yeah can be worth it. But paying livery often means you just about break even.

I know, I've tried and it just doesn't work because horses and ponies aren't selling.
 
By the time you add in livery costs, feed, shoes etc while you bring them on you'd not really make anything. However, as someone said, if you would have a horse of some sort anyway, so would have those costs anyway, it may be worth it. More for amusement than business...
 
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