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Ok I lease a 13 yr. old breedstock mare and the woman that owns her wants to sell her! I really want to buy her but I want to no the costs of a regular month Ive never owned a horse before but dont think Im not expericed but what are the relistic costs of everything and can someone help me figure out what kind of jobs I can do like babysitting and stuff to help pay for that stuff!!!! thanks! 
I love my 13 yr. old horse brandy!! she is a bay breedstock paint!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE her sooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!
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depends where you live. in my area boarding ranges from 250 for a grass pasture, shed, and use of amenities, around 350-450 for ok barn w stall and more for the nicer places.
you have farrier bills, which can range from 40 dollars for a barefoot trim, to 185 for therapeutic special shoes.
then theres vet costs, normal visits usually end up around 100 to 200 dollars, emergency, iv had one emergency go to 5000 dollars. :-0
if this is your first horse, then youll have to initially buy tack, blankets, grooming items, etc...
training will cost anywhere from 150 to 500 a month
and then depending on how competitive you are, youll have to add in horse shows as well.
i work all the time, and i worked all summer long, but i still need my parents. so if your going to get a horse, your parents really need to be behind you or it wont last long. another thing youll probably want to do is work for the barn owner to help keep board costs down. and find your strengths, for example, people will pay 150-175 for a body clip, if you can clip, you can earn money that way. if you an advanced rider, you trainer may let you school the lesson horses in order to help cover your training. find little jobs like these and dont be shy to ask for them. good luck!
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| If your not showing prices can get a little cheaper.. not much You need to think about shoes, vet, boarding, tack. Are you riding english or western? Shoes, if the horse has nice hard feet and your boarding has an arena you could prob go barefoot and then feed, my boarding provides hay and I provide grain. Then vet, shots, that depends on your vet but I'm guessing hmmm 200 a year for shots? I think we pay alittle less with an emergancy/dental care. Don't forget dewormer Trainers maybe like 30 bucks an hour (thats about the average in our area.) saddles, halters, bridles, bits, saddle pad, you could go on ebay, local tack store. If you don't show and you have a younger horse I wouldn't blanket, and there is a couple sites you could go on (craglist, tack traders) that has those for cheap. I pay 175 for boarding o_O(Pasture/shelter/shoes/feed too, but I only have a round pen to work in and its not a fun place) its weird to see people pay 200Plus for pasture board, we have places that you can get full care for $225-350. All my info is based on my arena, other places are different If you parents are like bug eyed about this, then lease another horse, they come and they go
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| How old are you? Unless you have a real job that comes with a regular paycheck or your parents are paying then you probably are not financially prepared to own a horse. Monthly costs have a very wide range depending on the area you live in. Board can run anywhere from 100 to over a thousand a month. Farrier bills depend on what the horse needs, usually somewhere around 25-40 for trims and 100-120 for all around shoes (every 4-8 weeks, again depending on the horse). Then there's dentist bills (at least once a year), vaccinations, coggins, deworming. Even things like flyspray add up when its 10-30 dollars a bottle and you're going thru it like crazy in the summer. And then there's the issues of emergency vet calls. Fact: If a horse can find a way to injure itself, it probably will. An emergency call for the vet can easily run hundreds or even thousands of dollars. A few months ago a friend of mine had to put her 3 year old QH down, healthy as could be until he got kicked the wrong way by a pasturemate and broke his talus (basically the hock). She ended up paying almost 1000 for the xrays, vet call, and euthanization. Another friend had a very expensive, very pampered broodmare who injured herself in the field (no one can figure out how, they're checked for hazards regularly) and did over 10k worth of damage to her leg. Things happen, even to young healthy horses. The best thing you can do is to research boarding facilities in your area to find out their prices. Then talk to some horse owners in your area to find out who they use for farrier/vet/etc services and what the avg prices are for basic needs. Good luck
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Thought I would add that a girl in my 4-H group had a horse who had to get surgery and they paid 7K to ship him down to LA and get it done, which is stupid, it could have been done here,but they don't trust the vets here...
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Expensive!! lol boarding on average here is anywhere from 50-250. Boarding at my barn is 150 a month and thats for pasture, and the farm has trails, and stalls, and an outdoor.
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at my stables its 350 4 an outdoor stall, 450 4 an indoor stall, but we dont hav pastures as i liv in huntington beach, ca. i hav 2 buy hay and supplements by myself which cost bout 150 a month, then my horse has terrible feet so thats 150 4 the farrier. my horse has a negative palmer so she has 2 hav quartizone shots every 2 weeks which is 50 each time. then since i show, it costs more but it depends if ur goin 2 do that or not. this is tons, and u probably wont pay this much. but i hope u get her!
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dont you have this posted here to?
http://board.horsechannel.com/Topic307746-5-1.aspx
well anyway
This is what i said:
I have it easy. I work my board off. I work almost every day bringing in the horses and feeding. Or if it rained just feeding.
Otherwise it would be $375 for one horse for inside board with daily turnout/blanketing/supplement feeding(although i feed). (which is cheap here)
Farrier: $30 for trim $60 for trim and front shoes.
Vet: Havn't had to have a visit (just bought my horse) but the barn owner knows his stuff.
Supplements: I get weight builder.
Blankets: Havn't bought mine yet. Im procrastinating.
Lessons: not taking any now. Havn't ridden my horse yet =/
And thats all i can think of now.
But remember that prices always vary from place to place.
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| The first barn where I boarded I also worked, so I was able to work off my board. (3 Sundays a month to equal $150) That sucked cause I was scheduled 6 days a week so I ended up with only 1 day off a month. No indoor. Outdoor was decent. Fencing was falling apart. Boss was mentally abusive. Finally I got sick of that, so I moved him to a neighbors farm where she didn't charge me a dime. (Sweet!) No riding rings though. (I quit that job shortly after moving my horse.) A while later I moved too far to keep him there anymore. The next barn charged $300 for stall board. I don't remember what it was for field board. No indoor. Outdoor ring was a joke. Barn was a dump. They were jerks and starved my horse so I had to move him again. The next barn charged $225 for field board. No indoor ring, ok outdoor. Well worth the money. Ace plumped up to a healthy weight and was noticeably happier. Unfortunately the economic situation hit them hard and they had to close down. My current barn is the most expensive yet. I pay $340 a month for field board. Sounds insane, but let me explain. Ace is brought in every day to eat, so I don't have to worry about him being chased away from his grain. The board fee includes, giving supplements, blanketing, holding for vet/farrier/dentist, and... I can ride in any and as many lessons I want. They have a really nice outdoor ring and a decent indoor ring, X-country course and trails too. Totally worth the price in my opinion! As far as farrier bills, Ace doesn't have shoes, so I've paid $35-$40/trim every 6 weeks. Vet bills are the hardest to predict. Spring shots usually run anywhere between $40 and $60 depending on how many people are sharing the farm call fee. Fall shots (some farm do this, others don't) are a bit cheaper. Emergency vet calls are where your bank account really starts hurting. So far my worst one was a little over $400 for a cut on the leg that required stitches. My former boss (from the first barn I kept him) had a horse slice half his hoof off on a wire fence. $18,000 later he's doing pretty well, but requires special shoeing. I don't remember exactly what I paid for the dentist, but it wasn't terrible. **Another very important thing to keep in mind: You will become increasingly addicted to buying all sorts of things that you "need" for your horse. You will find a way to justify even the most unnecessary purchase. This becomes very expensive and the addiction is difficult, if not impossible to cure.
 
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I dont have a horse but im experienced and I have researched this for a looooooong time because i know how u feel!!!! I would suggest leasing until you get a real job. Let the owner pay off the bills, you have fun! thats what being a kid is all about, not worrying about bills to pay off. So thats my suggestion i hope it is helpful. best of luck to you!
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