Should white/coloured horses be cheaper than the rest?

[dozzie]

Well should they? I think so!

Why? Well, my thinking is this.

Any horse with more than 50% white should be 50% cheaper as in the long run it will take much more time and energy to keep clean. The cost of bottles of special whitening shampoo (far more expensive than normal shampoo) extra furniture polish for shine, plus time cleaning horsey. Then you have all the chalk to put on tails, feathers etc.

Surely they should be discounted at time of purchase in lieu of forthcoming expenditure?

Anyone got any other good reasons for asking for a discount for any colour really!!!! Maybe bays should be more expensive as a quick flick over with a brush and you cant see any dirt at all!!! Well nearly!

 

[jesterfaerie]

Definatly

Although maybe blacks not bays (only because one I am enquiring about at the moment is bay so I if they prices are going to go up it should be after I buy this one)

 

[alicedove]

Also chestnuts should be cheaper as they are meant to be a bit naughty

 

[Selkie]

Cobs with big white feathers should be given away for free as they never look clean in the winter in all this rain and mud

 

[alicedove]

Trouble with bays is, they're too easy to come by so that reduces their price.....

White hairs, yes we had a coloured for a while, I'm still trying to pick the hairs out of my tops...definitely time consuming

 

[PennyJ]

Funny you should say that. I found the "perfect pony" for one of my daughters. His one drawback is that he's grey! I think a lot of people will overlook greys because they're high maintenance.

 

[Starbucks]

My grey horse is really easy to keep clean!! I have to wash his tail a lot but thats about it...

 

[dozzie]

Do you have a groom?

You see, when I was a nipper we were told that an Ice Age was imminent. (Now obviously at "nipper" age you think that means next year!) so of course if that was the case then I think greys would then be more valuable because they would be camouflaged in polar conditionhs.

However now, a year later,

, we are actual suffering from global warming in Hampshire. Yes, I know some places are having snow etc but we are having the monsoon season. So, consider animals of the rainforests. Leeches, monkeys,deer,frogs, orangutans and spiders to name but a few, many that I have seen have been a sort of...chestnut brown colour, mainly due to the need for camouflage. Its not much good being white in a rainforest is it????

So if we are becoming more tropical,(I'm expecting rainforests to spring up in the next year or so... )horses that are chestnut will be more capable of survival.

So, in the interests of horses as a species, I think we should all aim to breed chestnuts and bays with a premium of course being put on chestnuts.

Black horses are ok BTW as Gorillas are black. But only hairy black horses.

 

[Twilight]

In responce to the camoflague thing I think that grey horses would still win - in the snow they are camoflagued and when it is not snowy but wet (like in a rain forest) my grey seems to do an equally good job of camoflagueing himself with mud. He applys well over 4 times as much as everyone else on the yard. Therefore I think that not only do greys have a natural instinct to camoflague themselves, which should increase their value, also if we wish to keep them in a camoflague free state (ie white) it takes us hours so there should be a premium - that only silly people are prepared to pay as you would have to be daft to spend as much time knocking mud off as I do! Especially as after spending ages getting him clean and sparkly for a show it takes just seconds for him to revert!!!

 

[buttons845]

Nah - Grey is obsolete - just try doing your individual show on a grey in a muddy ring (Royal Highland this Summer)
Mud-coloured is the best.
Anyway, they say with global warming we will get wetter and milder so that means less snow for greys to hide in.
My next one will be mud coloured!

 

[L00bey]

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My grey horse is really easy to keep clean!! I have to wash his tail a lot but thats about it...

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ditto but ithink dapples are kinda dried mud coloured....

 

[jen1]

OH MY GOD YOU LOT HAVE FINALLY CRACKED!!!!

 

[dozzie]

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my grey seems to do an equally good job of camoflagueing himself with mud. He applys well over 4 times as much as everyone else on the yard. Therefore I think that not only do greys have a natural instinct to camoflague themselves, which should increase their value

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That's a really good point. Perhaps when selling a grey you should advertise the fact that as soon as it is clean it will attempt to camouflage itself by either rolling in mud or ...something else!

The ones that roll immediately, in the great scheme of things would command more money. This is because if they were in a rainforest and being chased by a big cat (I was going to put Jaguar, but I dont think cars find it easy to get through the RF, unless they are Landys of course), they would instinctively roll immediately and the cat would be unable to see them.

Ones that roll immediately are more likely to survive so that would become a dominant gene. Any greys that didnt would therefore carry a recessive gene and would disappear from the species. With that theory (DMs theory of evolution) within a million or so years all horses would be grey and covered in mud!

(Apart from the chestnut ones because they would always command a premium and would be carefully bred to remain exclusive!