A woman has contacted me about breeding to our 16.2, homozygous black and homozygous tobiano, stallion. Woman wants to breed a QH mare and a tobiano mare for APHA registration. We haven’t bred any outside mares in over 10 years!! Our stallion already has a World Champion winner from when he was with the previous owner. We do not breed for APHA registry, but can … our target is H/J sport horses/pintos that move like “real” English" horses. Any idea how to price the breeding fee? Thanks. ps…he is not advertised anywhere so this is not an advertisement!!
Ballpark, what was his old stud fee before you owned him? I imagine you have a good idea of what he is worth, and if you used to know that market (APHA) maybe pricing him at what an unproven or freshman sire in APHA market goes for might be reasonable (since he is not technically proven beyond that one offspring).
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Whatever makes it worth doing for you.
Like you can ask whatever you want, this isn’t really your business model so what would make this one off worth the bother?
maybe the real value is 500 but that’s not worth it for you, so you ask 1500 for the trouble. They’ll either pay for your time and efforts or not, that to me is the real question here since his real world stud fee likely isn’t worth the bother, so think instead of valuing your time.
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I like your thinking!! He has never stood to the public while we owned him and I don’t think the previous owner did either. I agree…it has to be worth the trouble…we haven’t bred outside mares…since the last “easy to breed” mare tried to kill us all! IMO…it is worth his cost and maintanence to breed just our own mares!! He is siring AWESOME/sane babies! Thanks!!
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Do you have a vet clinic that can collect him and ship so you don’t have to deal with the outside mare at your farm?
We do…I haven’t looked into that cost…Vet fees are HIGH in Texas!! He had been collected before we got him. Of course mare owners seem to like “cheap” live cover!!
