How do you as a farm/individual support geldings? I really want to hear concrete - this is what we do, not what should be done (we all know what should be done!).
I do reduce prices greatly to buyers who will geld the colts. I sponsor gelding classes at the local shows.
Buyers/Show people:
Do you show geldings? yes
Do you participate in the local or national club gelding incentive programs? yes, I donate to some of the local gelding incentive programs.
Do you buy geldings - and if you do, are you going for the low end colt to geld yourself, or a gelding for a pet or a competitive show horse (trained)? I do not generally buy any geldings.
Breeders/Sellers:
Do you offer incentives to show your geldings? yes, after reducing the price just to have them sold as geldings, I will reduce even more if they will show them.
Do you financially support your local or national clubs gelding incentive programs? I do donate as much as I can afford too.
Do you sell only geldings? no
How do you promote geldings to potential buyers? depends on what they want the horse for. Normally it is a first time buyer so will just talk up how easy geldings are to work with and learn on.
Everyone:
Does your local club offer a gelding incentive program? (gelding parties, reduced show costs, a hi-point type program, etc.) yes
Should AMHA/AMHR have severely reduced fees (I'm talking token) for gelding registration? yes I think so..
Now this is what I would really like to try and do. but I'm pretty clueless on how to get something like this started. I'm not good at wording things but here goes a shot.
I have this idea in my head of a place for just geldings, where they would have a home for life, but could be adopted out on some sort of terms where they could come back if need be. Also at this place I would want to have some kinda camp for kids and adults to come and learn about miniatures, also for the new comers to let them have a hands on with them to see if minis is really where they want.
It would be for all of the stallions/mares/geldings who are priced under a certain amount of money, I would have some type of standard for adjusting what each horse was worth.
This would also be a place where you could drop off unwanted stallions, or geldings or mares. But in the end everything that would be here would get spayed or gelded.
Now what is keeping me from doing this, is the lack of money to purchase up all of these lesser quality stallions, and then geld them, then of course the lack of funds for the buildings and care that these horses would need.
I've started looking at grants, but am lost and can not seem to find one that I could apply for.
bascially what I have to work with right now is 10acres of land I would be willing to develop for this project.
Anyway this is just me sharing my idea of what I think might help with the over population of stallions/mares in our miniature horse industry that should not be used as breeding animals.
so if anyone knows how to get something like this started, I'm all ears
I do reduce prices greatly to buyers who will geld the colts. I sponsor gelding classes at the local shows.
Buyers/Show people:
Do you show geldings? yes
Do you participate in the local or national club gelding incentive programs? yes, I donate to some of the local gelding incentive programs.
Do you buy geldings - and if you do, are you going for the low end colt to geld yourself, or a gelding for a pet or a competitive show horse (trained)? I do not generally buy any geldings.
Breeders/Sellers:
Do you offer incentives to show your geldings? yes, after reducing the price just to have them sold as geldings, I will reduce even more if they will show them.
Do you financially support your local or national clubs gelding incentive programs? I do donate as much as I can afford too.
Do you sell only geldings? no
How do you promote geldings to potential buyers? depends on what they want the horse for. Normally it is a first time buyer so will just talk up how easy geldings are to work with and learn on.
Everyone:
Does your local club offer a gelding incentive program? (gelding parties, reduced show costs, a hi-point type program, etc.) yes
Should AMHA/AMHR have severely reduced fees (I'm talking token) for gelding registration? yes I think so..
Now this is what I would really like to try and do. but I'm pretty clueless on how to get something like this started. I'm not good at wording things but here goes a shot.
I have this idea in my head of a place for just geldings, where they would have a home for life, but could be adopted out on some sort of terms where they could come back if need be. Also at this place I would want to have some kinda camp for kids and adults to come and learn about miniatures, also for the new comers to let them have a hands on with them to see if minis is really where they want.
It would be for all of the stallions/mares/geldings who are priced under a certain amount of money, I would have some type of standard for adjusting what each horse was worth.
This would also be a place where you could drop off unwanted stallions, or geldings or mares. But in the end everything that would be here would get spayed or gelded.
Now what is keeping me from doing this, is the lack of money to purchase up all of these lesser quality stallions, and then geld them, then of course the lack of funds for the buildings and care that these horses would need.
I've started looking at grants, but am lost and can not seem to find one that I could apply for.
bascially what I have to work with right now is 10acres of land I would be willing to develop for this project.
Anyway this is just me sharing my idea of what I think might help with the over population of stallions/mares in our miniature horse industry that should not be used as breeding animals.
so if anyone knows how to get something like this started, I'm all ears
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