Do you have any money saving tips?
I am trying to convince my parents to buy me a horse. I need to know some money saving tips when buying and keeping a horse. If you are just going to tell me to get a job or offer to do barn work, please don’t answer.
I am trying to convince my parents to buy me a porsche car, please don’t tell me to get a job…
LOL! Uh, honey, I’m almost 16, I’ve been working out at a barn for four years, have worked off three show outfits, and have enough left-over money to buy a cheap trail horse (To all the trail riders reading this: I’m not making comments on trail horses, just saying that I could buy an inexpensive one). Trust me, the only way you’re going to be able to afford a horse is to work for it.
Ignore the people telling you to get a job. You should consider it, but that’s not what you’re even asking at all.
For your first horse, you don’t need to go all out. Just get the necessities and cheapest tack you can. Try used tack. Try discount barn supplies. Try a grooming kit, rather than separate brushes. Don’t get a horse trained for barrels/jumping/etc too if you just want a trail horse, obviously. It will be much more expensive to buy a horse trained for a competitive discipline.
I think you can come up with more on your own. You just gotta look in catalogs for cheap stuff and talk to other horse owners in your area for prices on horses.
I would tell you if you don’t know anything about horses, don’t get one – yet. Learn about them first, there not dogs.
But, if you do know something about them then I would tell you to buy an older horse, (that is sound). They’re cheaper and are great horses. You don’t have to feed high dollar hay like Alfalfa. If you know the basic care of a horse, it will be cheaper to maintain a horse if you know about such things as worming, nutrition, shots, trimming or shoeing. You can buy used tack. If you have your own property to keep one on, then barb-less wire and T posts are about the cheapest fencing. A simple shelter if you live where the weather is nasty can be made out of ply wood and tin. If you have to board a horse somewhere, it would be cheaper to find a person that has extra pasture on there place and wants to board a horse rather than a big barn. A big help is finding someone that knows a lot about horses and have them help you. Not just someone that says they know a lot, but someone that really does.
it depends on what you mean. are you talking about money saving in terms of care etc, or money saving in terms of buying the horse?
best thing to do is work out a budget of exactly how much you can afford, and them stick to it.
try getting together with a few friends and ordering feed and bedding in bulk from the merchant, which will be a lot cheaper than buying bag by bag.