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It was supposed to be only the cream of crop allowed in. You had to nominate a horse in the head to be accepted. But there was a lot of people putting horses in that weren't really that great genetics. The thing that was nice is that you could put a reserve on them so if you wanted him to bring at least 5000 it wouldn't go unless it hit the 5000. So it would have been really nice for some of these fantasy or bettwr quality horses.

Yep I snip a lot because I just don’t need them and don’t want them going to auction and being picked up by someone who may not breed them for quality wise. So most always get snipped before I put them in auction :/

I might do that this season, as my foals are just not saleable anymore, I just ran a forum auction for an 3g A papers het nexus het satin, het KP consistent colt foal and I got the grand total of 1 bid which is super disheartening, I think it doesn't help I breed riding ponies instead of warmbloods and drafts, I think at this rate I'll just snip everything that isn't going to be used to breed and try to get the money together to keep buying barns.

I do still have him, and I'll let you have him as I'm going to turn as many of my foals as I can bare to into show ponies. I've had a bad year with Pumpkin Child most foals were Red or B which is disappointing but even the good ones there seems to be no market for anything but closed genes and snowflake atm.

@ NorthernStarsNorthernStars You are already in my chat.

No problem, I'm about to get my scissors out and be brutal with my breeding stock so he probably would have been fielded if he stayed.

The market would be far better if more people snipped far more horses. Everyone has breeding stock to sell and more keepers then they know what to do with, so why would they buy from others?

But rejects to one person may not be to another. Some foals are rejected because of such things as color, or needed barn space.

But certain Ice genes and Nexus genes are not closed. I also built my stock off of many of DivineDreams stock. And I know she wasn't selling me her rejects. I still buy her horses to this day. And Also RoseFlute. I have foals up for sale now with 10 and over Pt. But I do not have the barn room. They are not my rejects I just need the room.

Also keep in mind the market fluctuates. We just had closed genes and snowflake on sale, and a lot of people got them! Especially with fillies/mares, they’re selling pretty well, but the colts/snipped you can’t hardly give away because /everyone/ has excess.

Less than a month before the watercolor sale, though, any time a snipped watercolor foal went up in the closed gene chat sales, it was snatched up within hours - mostly because it had probably been a while before the previous sale, and there weren’t nearly as many being offered. There was also a huge run on dp/liver at that point in time, and anything labeled “dp” had way more interest than it does right now.

It’s basic supply and demand around here - and if you have the patience to wait a few months, or even a few weeks sometimes, you can watch the market shift to whatever is the latest “fad” (and hopefully you have some of whatever it is that you can profit off of :)) )

For the here and now, though, I’d probably say snip most of your excess aside from one or two horses that you really, really can’t bear to see snipped. (*says the person who is still in the process of culling and hasn’t gotten that far*) So far, the easiest mantra I’ve been finding to follow is “I can breed a better one next year. I can breed a better one next year. I can, at the very least, find another one if I ever really need this exact set of genes.”

And if it’s “just too pretty to snip” but not a great breeder, snip it and keep it forever in your show barns in a place of honor! We all (me included) get bad about thinking that a snip means it’s “gone”, to some extent, but we forget that snipping does absolutely nothing to the appearance of the horse and we can go and show it off in the show ring and wow everybody with its beauty there. :D

Oh gosh, you know how many people would accidentally click that, no matter how many warnings were slapped across it? Don’t give us that sort of power! =))

I know I thought of that. It's just bc I have so many. And I spend so much on gmt I hate to send to auction and have studs fall in wrong hands. I have almost 400 studs to go through right now

It’s a tight market out there, especially for colts. I offer a handful for sale every season, that comp where I want them to for that gen, and I snip probably a third of them when they don’t sell. I’m also at a point where I’m culling lower papers from my pastures, so I’m moving a lot of mares either through the auction or snipping and shoving in a show barn. I will pick up a few horses I just can’t stand not to have, but I’m one of the bigger barns here and don’t really shop for stock often.

I try to be really really tight on stallion numbers at all times, but I think I have some hiding somewhere! If I can get finished culling foals I’ll be going hunting with a set of triple crunch emasculators!

I snip very excessively, both fillies and colts, along with older breeding mares and stallions who I just don't breed anymore. I've actually got a tonne of snipped RS since I don't want to give up their points and I don't want to breed them anymore. I think I was talking about it in one of the buddies recently that I went on a snipping spree, I cut my numbers down dramatically. I've got a very tiny GMT list of horses (8 total!) who I want to make consistent which is the only thing holding them out of my lines at the moment. Usually if they're incon, they'll be snipped. Wrong colour, missed a gene, wrong paper, or having too many similar ones from that pasture is enough for me to snip them.

I very rarely sell out breedable stock and I've hardly ever listed my horses for actual auctions. Occasionally if I get a horse whom I'm not going to use but is up to snuff and has very desirable gene's I'll do a forum auction. Rather guttingly I had a lovely snowflake stallion last season who would have been an awesome edition to someones lines but since no one bidded on him I just gelded him. Lately there's been so little interest in the ones I am offering out lately, I'm wondering if there's just too many on the market these days.