Horse career ideas?

Question

I love horses and have done all my life i have been riding and had experiace for 11 years and when i leae college i would like to have a horsey career.eg Breeding horses,Haveing a ranch,being a top eventer.

Is there any money in this sort of career ?

Answer 1

in the current economy today, nope. . . so i suggest another career to support the horses until there is enough (never know, the economy could swing back up in a few years. . . )

anyway, you asked for careers, so i took the time to search different web pages with different ideas/career options. . . :

http://agriculture.truman.edu/careers/eq...

http://animalscience.unl.edu/horse/caree...

http://www.equisearch.com/education/coll...

http://equ.equimax.com:8080/

Answer 2

I know that in the UK you can actually study for Equine qualifications in college.  Most people aspire to work with horses, showing/dressage or jumping careers.

You can also open a Riding school, but as far as I am aware, you have to be the best of the best to make oodles of money out of it.

Answer 3

There is no money in breeding right now unless you are breeding really nice foals or training them when they are old enough. You also have to start out with LOTS of money.

Owning a ranch is the same way and lots of ranches are going out of business. I was in Kentucky a short time ago and visited a very accomplished racing farm and they are worried. The horse racing farms will fall like many of the saddlebred farms have. Again you need lots of money to start out.

Being a top eventer is probably the hardest to accomplish. It is one thing to compete and a whole other to have everyone know you name (in a good way, not like Laine Asker(sp?)). I know people who are trying to break it into "The Top" and they are giving 110% and ride on a level way beyond the people their age and still probably wont make it. It take dedication, skill and a little luck to hit the big time. O and lots of money to start out with....

As for careers that make average to good money:

Trainers. as long as they are knowledgable, teach correctly and dont have a short fuse then they can earn some good money. Starting off is hard and probably wont pay well but once you get with a good barn and establish a good name for yourself you should make some money. Lots of young trainers in my area dont do well because they cant concey what they know well, have a temper or push kids to hard.

Vet: This job can pay LOADS once you get experience. Alot of the vets in our area are young women and they say the money is nice even in the beginning. Many older vets also go back to school for a bit and transfer to small animals when the big animals become to much which is an added bonus. Another bonus is the vet care for your own horse is very little. Getting into the schools can be very difficult though.

Farrier: Finding a good farrier is worse than trying to find a needle in a haystack. There will always be a demand for good farriers.

Chiropractors/Massage People/Saddle Fitters: Some make really good money but in this economy lots of people are considering them a luxury and I think their demand will fall for awhile.

Good Luck

EDIT: I cannot believe I forgot but the University of Kentucky is beginning to offer equine courses that are unmatched in the US. Here is the link

http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/Magazine/2008/...

Answer 4

What sort of degree do you plan on getting in college?  If you plan on starting a business, I'd get some background as this is the area where many horse people lack experience and knowledge.  Lay out a plan and work toward that plan.  I like the old "list of priorities" therapy.  Every day for ten days list your priorities from 1-10.  Usually by the end of ten days your list will be refined and your top priority will be clear.  Then work towards that goal, in college, or in a job. There is money to be made but the ways and means vary according to your knowledge, skills, and geopraphics.   One of my veterinarians owns a farm, runs his business from the farm, and his whole family does eventing together.  That's planning!

Answer 5

I can speak for the situation in my area of the country and the going advice is don't go into the horse business if you want to make money.  An average sized equestrian facility round here goes for over a million , and sometimes millions of dollars....and you are then taxed accordingly.  Even a private 5 acre farmette runs a half a million if it's not a total dump.

You can buy land cheaper in more rural areas, but to run a business, you need to be where there are people, so even though land is cheaper, no one can get to your facility.

Breeders need to show and compete and have the money to do it to keep their names out there and their stock in demand.

Even becoming a top eventer is about spending lots of money for years on the chance that you will make a name for yourself and be able to do something to make money off of that.

I would advise you, as I advised my own children, to secure a career that will afford you the money to pursue your horse interests as a hobby.  If you get good at eventing, for example, you can always re-evaluate your status as hobbyist and go professional, without the strain of being reliant upon it to pay the bills.

Answer 6

theres plenty of money in owning a ranch/horse riding centre...but you will have to spend alot to start it off, 50 grand it could be!! (for horses,stables, the arena etc..) god you could nearly spend 100,000!!! but you will earn 5 times that over the years! imagine, for 1 hour a child would spend 20 euro/dollars...and there could be about 15 in a group!

a horse phisio would be an awesome job but you would need alot of GCSE's. points etc... but it pays a h**l of alot!!

In breeding horses, i wouldn't make it a FULL time career, because you only get foals once a year remember that! but i suppose if you do get alot of money for the foal then its not too bad...

a top eventer...what are the odds when you think of it?

you'd have to be extremly good!

hop3 this h3lp3d!*!* xoxoox

Answer 7

No there is hardly any money in those!

Thats why im choosing to be a mounted police!

Mounted police are police who patrol on horseback. They continue to serve in remote areas and in metropolitan areas where their day-to-day function may be largely picturesque or ceremonial, but they are also employed in crowd control. Mounted police may be employed for specialized duties ranging from patrol of parks and wilderness areas, where police cars would be impractical or noisome, to riot duty, where the horse serves to intimidate those whom it is desired to disperse through its larger size. For example, in the UK mounted police are most often seen at football matches.

PLease tell me if you are aussie or wher your from so ic an get more info...

Here are a couple more goood careers with horses that get a fair bit of money:

Answer 8

You can do a lot of career choices based around horses... you can become a vet centered specifically around horses. Being a top eventer would take alot of practice and you would have to have a great horse and you would need to be ahmazing to get a lot of money. Breeding horses dosent bring much money in my friends mom does it and she gets 500 per breeding but breedings dont come often.... she usually breeds her horses and then they sell the foals for 5k. Haveing a ranch takes alot to start but what I would do would be by some land or a farm with a few acres... go tot petfinder and purchase some horses they are usually alot cheaper there.... then you can do lessons and you can have people show your horses and give them some of the winnings for a month and you get the rest... its basically really hard to find something good like that to do but this could be rewarding.

Answer 9

equine vet- good at science and math though!

Answer 10

I love horses but unless you have the capital to spend it's a risky business right now. Consider that everything you need to run a barn runs on diesel or gas. You need at least a 3/4 or one ton truck to haul the trailer.

  

  Horse prices are way down in general. Race and eventing horses are holding their value though.

  

  To generally answer your question there isn't much money to be made unless you're already established. You can make a living working for a top trainer but finding that position is difficult without good contacts in the business.

  

  Entry level jobs are out there but be prepared to muck stalls and groom. It may take years and years to break into the big time of reining, dressage, breeding or eventing.

  

  If you have the patience and the desire to make it you may be one of the lucky ones that sail to the top of your discipline.

  

  Good luck, I hope you make it but do it for the love of the horse not the money. If you do that you'll excel and then maybe the money will come second. Keep the love of the horse your top priority.

Answer 11

I was always horse crazy, and considered being a vet and such. When it came down to it, I was afraid that spending so much time with other people's horses would make me now want to spend time enjoying my own. Plus you have the fact that hours for horse jobs are long and hard...difficult on holidays, vacations...forget having a day off without finding someone qualified to take over for you.  I decided it would be better to get my degree and have a career that would afford me the horses I wanted and allow me to spend time in the evenings and take off occasionaly for a weekend horse show, etc. My family raises horses, so I know how time demanding and expensive it is to have a year-round horse business.