Your Selling Guidelines

[MosMum]

Following on from Keeping Useless Horses, what are your personal moral guidelines for selling?

I understand things a slightly different now during the recession, but I mean in general.

Would you sell a foal you'd bred? A pregnant mare? An adult stallion? Colt?

Would you sell an outgrown pony? A retired/companion/lame horse (with the buyer aware of what they were buying and ensuring appropriate care/work)?

Or would you only sell a mentally/physically healthy, rideable, show quality gelding or mare?

Assuming you could not keep, what would you sell/pts/loan of the above? Thanks

 

[Flame_]

I've only ever sold three horse/ponies. One was my first pony who did his job but then I needed to move on and he was sold to do that job for someone else. A pony who was very nice but a bit too much for my sister who is a nervous rider - he went on to be repeatedly be placed at HOYS. The other is a sports horse I sold earlier this year whose only flaw was being extremely traffic shy, she's gone to be an eventer.

I'll never sell anything I don't think will genuinely be better off being sold, and will do a good job in the right home. I amazes me how so many people will pass on problems for cash.