quietcobcob
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Need some non biased advice please....
I have a 10 year old cob cross Irish draught gelding, who I've had since he was 3. He has always been hassle free and the ideal horse for me. Rewind a few years and I was offered a fair bit of money for him (not silly money... but more than I paid ) and that has been* the only time selling ever entered my mind- and it only entered it briefly.
Fast forward to* the last 12 months, I'd been poorly, work was mad- so I roughed him off and turned him away to live with a herd in a lovely huge field. I havent seen him in about 4 months because i get such a sense of guilt when i do. He is kept on my husbands uncles farm, so hubby does weekly checks as dowa their groom -he is thoroughly enjoying himself. This is where I need advice- because so am I!* I'm enjoying not being horsey, I'm enjoying not being tied at the end of each day. I am also really not missing riding.
In the next 2 years I want to try and do up our house and I might attempt my masters, I just can't forsee a good time to bring him back into work. Nor do I really want to do it.
I've thought about loaning him- but people normally want a ready made horse... or at least a horse in work. Also I've known of a few loans go very wrong- so I am put off. So then my mind has brought me round to selling- I don't want to bring him back into work to sell him because his personality* would make it so hard. Harder than it normally It* would be.
Do people buy from the field?* When I say people I mean nice normal people who will be nice to my horse... who in turn would become theirs.
I'm not sure if this is a vent or a cry* for advice or just a cry.
I have a 10 year old cob cross Irish draught gelding, who I've had since he was 3. He has always been hassle free and the ideal horse for me. Rewind a few years and I was offered a fair bit of money for him (not silly money... but more than I paid ) and that has been* the only time selling ever entered my mind- and it only entered it briefly.
Fast forward to* the last 12 months, I'd been poorly, work was mad- so I roughed him off and turned him away to live with a herd in a lovely huge field. I havent seen him in about 4 months because i get such a sense of guilt when i do. He is kept on my husbands uncles farm, so hubby does weekly checks as dowa their groom -he is thoroughly enjoying himself. This is where I need advice- because so am I!* I'm enjoying not being horsey, I'm enjoying not being tied at the end of each day. I am also really not missing riding.
In the next 2 years I want to try and do up our house and I might attempt my masters, I just can't forsee a good time to bring him back into work. Nor do I really want to do it.
I've thought about loaning him- but people normally want a ready made horse... or at least a horse in work. Also I've known of a few loans go very wrong- so I am put off. So then my mind has brought me round to selling- I don't want to bring him back into work to sell him because his personality* would make it so hard. Harder than it normally It* would be.
Do people buy from the field?* When I say people I mean nice normal people who will be nice to my horse... who in turn would become theirs.
I'm not sure if this is a vent or a cry* for advice or just a cry.