Open to offers - what would you be prepared to pay?

Depends on quality, and where in the UK - really need a bit more detail :D

Where I am (tayside, Scotland), average quality would only be few hundred quid at best, just no market at present 100 more for better quality. If below average, they'd struggle to give it away.
 
Gorgeous looking mummy. Filly looks pretty, can't really see confo, and anyway I am not an expert. I think £500? But could be completely wrong, if she does get to 15hh or more could be a really good investment. Do you know much about her dam and sire?

Keep us updated with what you do.
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Have seen the add now, nice little filly but average.

I'd only pay 2-300 for her, there is an awful lot of colts/filly's like her around, people off loading youngsters as they can't afford them and their riding horses, and sadly the young ones are the first to go.

I like her though, but I'm a sucker for cute little hairy ones :D x
 
I was going to say 250... they are obviously desperate to sell but would probably go up to 500 if I really wanted her... Definitely a haggling case.

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Round here, in the North East you'd be looking at £200-£400 depending how smart she was in the flesh, if she was vaccinated and passported etc. If she was a colt and not a filly you'd be looking at £50-£300. Its a buyers market at the minute, no one has any money and we've had horrendous weather! You do see horses advertised for much more than that, but they just dont seem to sell

I paid £220 for a very nicely marked coloured, really chunky hunter type who moves beautifully. Admittedly he was totally feral, wasn't passported or injected etc, but I bought him in October when the weather was ok and I'd forgotten quite how bad winter is :D I could also have got 'less quality' with more handling and a passport etc for the same money
 
I'm not an aficionado of Traditionals - but she looks a nice foal. Certainly doesn't appear cow-hocked or 'odd' - and nothing wrong with her head! Foals almost always look plainer around the head than they do when they grow into it.

For a black filly - of a popular size - in the Midlands, I would expect them to be wanting at least £700. Whether they'd take less depends on how desperate they are to sell now.
 
Well, I don't know much about these things but just wanted to say that I think she looks lovely. Looks a nice shape to me, nice looking parents (daddy looks to have a really sweet face) and just generally yummy.

I feel as though they'd be after a good £500 or more and that she'd be worth it somehow.
 
I sold an identical yearling recently for £750
- she was well handled, microchipped/passported, wormed. Came out of a livery's dealer mare so was a bit of a surprise, but livery wasn't interested, so weaned her early and ran her on with my herd. Had a lot of interest at that price. Less personable, I could maybe have got £500. This is in the south-east.
 
I have a 7 month old coloured traditional filly....a very nicely marked, very chunky hairy monkey, to make 14.3/15 hh. She was pretty feral when I bought her, she was £550 and came from South Wales. With the traditionals fillies always make much better prices than the colts.
I think she looks nice, although I agree with the other poster who said the write up seems to suggest they maybe are looking for a fair bit for her. I'd offer 450 ish as a start and be prepared to go up a bit if they fall over :p :)
 
You'd pay £250 for a x-bred puppy?????? I always wondering who it was paying silly prices for a mongrel that meant people asked that much!

And puppies don't cost quite so much each month in upkeep!!
 
prorider said:
You'd pay £250 for a x-bred puppy?????? I always wondering who it was paying silly prices for a mongrel that meant people asked that much!

And puppies don't cost quite so much each month in upkeep!!
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I wouldn't - I always get rescues - but a LOT of people do. A friend recently sold x-b Jack Russel puppies for that - and he could have sold the litter twice to good homes! And yes - they're less in upkeep - and a hell of a lot cheaper to breed (he had 6 healthy pups in a litter that took 8 weeks to 'cook' and 8 weeks to rear to sale
 
This October I bought a similar foal at Builth Wells Welsh cob auction. He is a colt and is half sec D ,black in colour. Microchipped and passported.He is just wonderful A* temperament and an absolute joy to own. I paid £220 for him.
 
JanetGeorge said:
I'm not an aficionado of Traditionals - but she looks a nice foal. Certainly doesn't appear cow-hocked or 'odd' - and nothing wrong with her head! Foals almost always look plainer around the head than they do when they grow into it.

For a black filly - of a popular size - in the Midlands, I would expect them to be wanting at least £700. Whether they'd take less depends on how desperate they are to sell now.
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I agree with this, known breeding, parents can be seen, fillies usually fetch a bit more than colts. Price depends on quality as with everything, but good cobs are always easy to sell, if they are well handled and trained as family cobs.
Had my eye on a very nice filly belonging to travellers last year, seriously considered making an offer of between £500 -£800, but didn't and regretting it still.
 
Prices are on the floor though, I am beginning to think I paid too much for mine! There was a thread on here the other day with 3 nice foals bought for £25 £28 and I think £80 one was a coloured the others sec D. A neighbour of mine went to Llanybydder to sell a dozen or so foals like the ones in the advert, mostly coloureds, he didnt sell one, bids of £5 £10 etc so he brought them all home.
 
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Prices are on the floor though, I am beginning to think I paid too much for mine! There was a thread on here the other day with 3 nice foals bought for £25 £28 and I think £80 one was a coloured the others sec D. A neighbour of mine went to Llanybydder to sell a dozen or so foals like the ones in the advert, mostly coloureds, he didnt sell one, bids of £5 £10 etc so he brought them all home.
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It's not that prices are on the floor - it's a shortage of buyers and too many very average youngsters! Add to that the hay/haylage cost - and people's concerns about recession - some people ARE giving youngsters away!!

Your neighbour took his foals home because there weren't any GENUINE buyers there and he didn't want to give them away to dealer/meat-man/opportunist. Foals bought at that sort of price are often then advertised at £100 - "to save them from the mean-man."

But you can only sell your youngsters once. I have NO trouble selling nice backed 3 year olds for decent money. If I sold a foal for peanuts, I have had 60% of the cost of production - for 5% of the return I need to break even.

But some breeders can't afford to run them on for a better price lately - it mewans further investment when money is tight. IF the economy improves in the next few years we may well see a shortage of youngsters - as so many have gone for slaughter - or mares haven't been bred.
 
Yes he'll advertise them locally for around £100 I would think. They are quite nice,gypsy cobs around 14.2hh and ,suprisingly with quite decent conformation. Better than your average for that type of cob. great temperatments. But, like he said to me, the teenage girl buyers seem to be few and far between these days. hes another foal crop on the way for next year too. Its such a shame no one wants such nice ponies. TBH I think he didnt sell as he'll send them off for meat himself,he was even saying about £ per kilo value the other week ,and that was low, too, apparently.
 
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