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I want a horse!
HI im 13 and i want a horse badly. I read alot about them and i take lessons. my sister has a friend that Has a horse. tory(the friend) has a really big barn and says that we could board there if we ever get a horse. my mom says that torys not ready to take care of another horse (i think she is. and my mom also says that money is an isue. i told her that I would give her all of my money and i would stop taking lessons. she would buy it. help!
thank you
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youre 13...are you sure you can pay for all that!? you have to pay for the horse, equitment, food, housing, etc. think about it. thats a lot of money.
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a horse is really a huge responsibility and i don't think that you should let your friend board the horse. you could start off with a miniature pony and keep in in a large shed and make a little pasture for it. it would still cost a lot of money but not as much as a horse. that's how my friend started out and now she has two horses.
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Hey i actully dont have an anser but--- um my name is tory i have horses and a barn... r u talking about me?
plzzzzzz anser in my inbox
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or just tell me ur name
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First off let me say that horses are a huge responsibility. I owned two before I went to university, but sold them because I no longer had the 30+ hours a week to give to them that they needed. Not only would a horse take up all your weekends and free time, your mother would have to be available to drive you too and from the barn all that time plus the cost of gas.
Now, lets do the cost thing.
Imagine you buy a relatively inexpensive horse for $2000
Add to that (rough estimations based on my yearly expenses per horse)
Hay = $450.00
Grain = 300.00
Bedding = $280.00
Immunizations = $60.00
Deworming = $60.00
Dental and other= $200
Shoeing 6 times at $80 = $480.00
Trimming 3 times at $25 = $75.00
Board x 12 months w/o feed supplied = $4000.00
Total is about $6000.00 in a year to keep and maintain your horse plus the cost of actually buying him and buying all your tack.
Think about the amount of money you have to offer your mother again, and think about the time and effort a horse will take from you. Consider leasing a horse over the summer months, or perhaps working at a barn in exchange for more time on a horse.
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