How much does it cost for a horse?

Question

not including the vet or room and board.

Answer 1

Lots of money...depends

Answer 2

it all depends, you could adopt a horse, (usually abused and needs extra training) and they can be $500 and up. You can have a green horse, (willing to learn, but not completely trained yet) can be around $2000 a well trained horse can be $5000 + then there are the show champions etc. $20,000 + so it all depends on what you are looking for

Answer 3

If you are going to just get a horse for just riding not showing:

800-1800



Show:

1900-5000

Answer 4

to buy them it ranges any where from 100-anything

Answer 5

The cheapest thing about owning a horse is buying one.

The cost of a horse depends on your location and what you're looking for. This is what I paid for my horses:

$3500 for an OTTB in Juneau, Alaska with great bloodlines. Hot tempered, needed an advanced rider. Jumped 3'6.

$2500 for a APHA in Tangent, Oregon. Barrel racer, really awesome bloodlines. Needs intermediate rider. Good trail horse. Very well broke. In foal to a piece of c**p stallion.

$600 for an unbroke unregistered QH pony. Very gentle. Had some groundwork. Portland, Oregon

$500 for an unregistered slaughter bound rescue Suffolk mare. Completely unbroke, no handling whatsoever. Whetherford Texas.

$2000 canadian for an unregistered QH/Percheron/Morgan with a couple rides on her and some groundwork. Very aggressive, really badly abused. Included full set of tack including next to new $1200 saddle.

The best thing to do is go to Horsetopia.com or dreamhorse.com or craigslist and look for horses in your area with the training you want and figure out the average price.

Answer 6

if this helps you, the cheapest horse at my barn was no less than 150,000.. the most expensive one was almost a milion.

Answer 7

I think that really depends on what kind of horse you're talking about. If they are a prized breeding horse, they are obviously going to cost more.

http://www.petplace.com/horses/what-it-c...

Try looking there. It explains a bit about the care and keeping of them and what it costs. Hope this helps!

Answer 8

you can get a horse for free any day of the week like they say the cheap part of getting a horse is buying it.but feed and borading and the vet is were it gets costly

Answer 9

Hay in CA right now is running $17.95/bale for 3 strand alfafa which weighs 100LBs plus. Oat hay, runs a couple of bucks cheaper. Your horse will need between 5 and 7.5 bales a month, depending upon how easy a keeper your new horse is.  If you're boarding out, then this is optional EXTRA feed.  Timothy, is running about $23.00/bale if you can find it.

Shoeing (Which can run anywhere from $50.00 for just shoes in the front and barefoot in the back on up.) Done about every 6 to 8 weeks.

Trims: About $35.00 Once again done every 6 to 8 weeks.

Grain: Depending upon how easy a keeper your horse is, a bag of grain will run you about $15.00/$20.00 and bran about the same, once a month.

Misc. Tack: This is the one that not only can get expensive, BUT addicting! You see something that your horse just MUST have! DO NOT go to ebay! This can be VERY costly and addicting, trust me on this I have a friend who's still paying off credit cards from ebay horsey things she bought.

Having someone trailer or haul your horse with the cost of gas would probably be $2.00/mile nowadays...

Okay, now you have your catagories, work up a spreadsheet for your area and then see if you can afford to own a horse.

Answer 10

anywhere from 1,200- 120,000 dollars , it all depends on what kind of horse your looking for!

arabian horses can even get much much more for, as in 250,000- 500,000 even 1,000,000 it all depends on their blood line!!!

I guess what I'm trying to say is HORSES ARE NOT CHEEP!!!

Answer 11

well they could range form 0-1,000,000 but plze plze makesure you are ready for one

Answer 12

A horse can range anywhere from $0 to $100,000. It really depends on what you want. The cost to keep a horse a year and this is with out board is about 2000, and thats not any of the extra stuff like lead ropes and halters and so on. You need vet checks on the horse that you are going to buy so that you know that the horse is sound to ride.

I hope this helps i dont know if this is what you were asking but i hope this helps.

micheala

Answer 13

$1000+ to buy the horse

& about $15 a week in hay

Answer 14

That's like asking, "How long is a rope?"  There is no definitive answer because there are too many variables to your question...be specific, what kind of horse do you want, what do you want to do with it?  Do you have space for this horse or are you going to board it?  That is just the beginning, there are so many other details that you need to nail down before you can get a decent answer...the way your question reads, the answer could be from $200 to $100,000 and that isn't even dealing with the board and upkeep, tack and lessons...if you could possibly be more specific, you would probably get a more helpful answer.

Answer 15

My horse was $17,000. But I'm guessing you won't want a champion ;)  

JUST KIDDING! My horse was actually about $5,500 only because she had 5 years of critical training at a "boot camp" previous to her sale. I suggest you rescue one! rescue horses are usually pretty cheap but sooo sweet! Check out www.Equine.com - they sell beautiful, healthy horses for as little as $150! Good Luck!

Answer 16

regular horse:1,500 - 2,500

prized horse: 5,000 - 10,000

Answer 17

I've seen them as cheap as $300.00. Where will you keep it in New York?

They really are a lot of work too. Daily grooming and cleaning up, not to mention feeding and stuff.

Answer 18

More than you could imagine.  Acutally buying the horse is the cheap part.  Upkeep is what gets you.  

Its an endless money pit, yet if you are truely devoted to your horse, it is totally worth it.  

Ways to cut costs are, after you buy a horse, and he gets settled in; finding someone to half lease him.  That way, your horse gets excercise when you cant get to the barn, and it helps your expenses too.  Or see if he can get into a program where trainers use him for lessons.  That is what I did with my horse, and it helped me alot money wise.  He is used for children's lessons, its cute to watch and it puts a few dollars in my pocket every day.  :-)

Always have an emergency fund set aside.  You never know what is going to happen.  Good Luck!