Candleliteranch
Well-Known Member
If you are selling a "pet quality" foal do you still get papers up on it? Or sell on application, or no papers at all? And why?
Just looking for opinions....
Just looking for opinions....
Ditto what MA said! I normally sell all my "pets" with papers when gelded, but one time in the case of a pet filly that I bought (sh was sold to me as a breeding quality mare) that I considered to be minimally afflicted dwarf, I sold her without papers, as I could not spay her, and it was as a "last resort" with hoping it would be more of a deterrent that she would never be bred from.For me, a pet quality stallion should be definitely gelded. If we haven't gelded the colt yet, we don't release papers until they are. A filly or mare who should not be bred is also pet quality and we do not release papers.
My big peeve is in regard to the filly or mare. Sometimes they may have a reason NOT to be bred but they would make wonderful show animals. In this situation, if get to know the buyers well enough, and feel comfortable that they would not breed the horse, I will release the papers. But it really is a difficult decision.
MA
Yes, that is what "pet quality" implies to me -- but a pet quality horse possibly do well in color (in AMHR where confo isn't a factor), driving, obstacle, and other stuff probably, too.Wouldn't "PET QUALITY" just mean it isn't a halter horse. It still may have a very good potential to be a pleasure dirving horse. Why would you stop someone from the ability to show where the horse is able to be shown. Or, is it you don't want others that show to know the horse came from your breeding?
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