How much is a mustang? and how much is adopting a horse form like the accpa or soemthing like that?

Question

a mustang, training cost, breed cost, striaght from the wild---- how much?

and a good horse from the like that place where they save animals...its like accpa, or idk, something , its lika pound---how much?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about Mustangs specifically but horse rescue places generally charge up to 1,000 for an adoption fee. It's usually less than that, but gets greater the more training and experience the horse has. Older horses that can only be pets, or companions, are usually very cheap, or free. When adopting from a rescue center, the horses often have problems trusting humans, and need a lot of patience , love, and an EXPERIENCED horse handler and rider.

Answer 2

Well you will have to build a speical set up before you are even allowed to adopt a horse.  They must approve your set up before you are even considered. So that alone would run you a few thousand.  I am not sure the individual rate for adoption but I am sure it verys and it depends on where you adopt from.  If you are concerned about money I would look into adopting a PMU foal.  They need good home just as well and are not harvested from out wild crops.  There are also thousands of unwanted horses out there that are free that may not be wild but need just as much care and love.

Answer 3

you may know some info. but i recomend you should be around horses for a while until you can actually OWN a horse FROM THE WILD. Take riding lessons, and maybe if you want a horse, you should buy one thats already trained.

Answer 4

Last I checked it was $125 per horse as long as you are not fighting over a horse that someone else wants. The price will go up if a couple people want the same horse. The last load we had come in were $125 easch. The BLM has become quite lax on their "strict" requirements. You should have a small pen with a run-in shelter and 6ft fences. They recommend the pen be no larger than a 100' round pen. That is only until they settle in. Once they have been handled, they can eventually be moved to a larger pen. Keep in mind, they come with halters on, but the halters are put on them in a chute. They are NOT halter broke. They will also come with a packet of info on their specific herd and it's origins. They will be branded. Their brand tells you their age, markings, and what herd they came from. Hope that helps.

Answer 5

First, before anyone should truely answer this question, hwo much do you know about horses?

Answer 6

it depends on the horse but adopting will probably be less expensive than buying one

Answer 7

Where do you live? Do a search on rescue ranches in your state. Check the BLM (bureau of land management) for wild horse adoption.

http://www.blm.gov/wo/st/en/prog/wild_ho...

The price is going to depend. For instance, a 7 year old is going to be more expensive than a 20 year old. A horse that has had some training is going to cost more than one without. They have had a couple of young wild mustangs brought into the rescue where I board my horses, and I think they went for $800 after they got training.

Wild mustangs need to be adopted, if you've kept up on the news lately you know that the BLM is thinking of euthanizing 30,000 wild horses. So adopting a wild mustang would be a good deed. Just be aware that you are up for a challenge. Get a good trainer to work with your horse.

David

http://gentlenaturalhorseman.blogspot.co...

Answer 8

The last I checked the adoption fee was $250 or $300.  However if you have never worked a mustang before take Kicking Bear's advice and go to an adoption and stay until they load them.  Most people I think will back out when they see what they have to handle.  Other adoption fees vary but there is something you need to know about adoption though some of the horse nuts on here disagree.  It is really inadvisable for someone who has not worked with a LOT of horses to go to an adoption or rescue facility for horses.  This is because of the high percentage of horses with medical problems and the high percentage that have been mistreated and have completely lost their trust in humans.  I was talking to someone today that came out to look at a filly I broke for a friend to sell.  We were discussing how a horse that has been beat can never be trusted fully again.  The person who does trust such a horse will get themselves or someone else hurt.

Instead with todays prices good gentle trail horses that are a little green can be had cheap.  The filly I broke out is for sale for $450, and she neck reins.  She also loves people and needs a loving home.  Those wild mustangs just want to be left alone (not possible but that is what they want).  Some would just as soon kick your head off as let you near them.

Save a mustang let another horse die of starvation?  With the number of horses that are out there that need homes I would just as soon rescue a good one that enjoys people than rescue one I will have to spend lots of money on to correct a health issue or one that acts half crazy because it doesn't trust a person to take care of it when they ask it to do something it doesn't want to do.

That is like the people who buy horses bake from the killer.  The killer then just uses the profit he made off the sale of that horse to buy two more.  I am actually not against slaughter but sometimes people's actions have the opposite effect as they intend because they haven't thought things through.

Escuse me but you seem to be saying that you have read alot but not actually worked with horses.  You are not ready for either an adopted horse or a mustang.  These horses WILL kill you!  That glamourized documentary you watched and those books you read gives only the good side.  

I have worked horses (both those troubled and those that are not) and train them.  There is not much that I am afraid of.  I have a realistic expectation of horses and have enough experience that I can generally judge their attitude within a few moments of seeing them in the pen.  From this I can generally come pretty close to telling you how easy they will be to break and what kind of horse they will turn into if handled properly.  Yet even I would think twice before getting a mustang.  And here you are with apparrently no real life experience and want to talk about how much you now.  Like the owner of the tack shop I use says,  "You don't know nuthin!"

Sorry to be so hard on you but I am not trying to be mean.  I am trying to get you to see how dangerous this is.  I have broken toes, a wrist, a shoulder, a nose and have so many minor injuries from horse training that I can't even begin to name them all here.  I have been kicked (twice barely missing my knees), bit, stepped on, and drug.  I have had them fall on me and beside me. The only thing that has not happened to me yet is that no horse has succeeded in deliberately throwing me.  One probably will one day, but they have not succeeded yet.  And this is from relatively calm horses with good experiences with people.  BLM mustangs are feral so have many of the wilder instincts and have had an extremely bad experience with people at least once and probably many times during round up, handling in the chutes, shots, etc.  Get in the pen with the wrong one when you don't know what you are doing and it will deliberately kill you.

BTW  I gentle break my horses meaning I use techniques similiar to those that are now coined 'natural horsemanship' (sorry hate that term and the so called trainers taking credit for it) and have stil recieved these injuries so do not think that some training video is going to be a magic wand and protect you.  It may help if you have no real experience but will not be enough in this case.