How much would a horse cost and how much is the price to maintain it in america

>>5004487 (OP)
Around three fiddy

>>5004494
Yea

>>5004487 (OP)
A single horse? The land and building (and the annoying building permissions that may be needed) as well as the horse itself are the most expensive part.

>>5004487 (OP)
Depends how much your hay costs and how sick your horse gets.

>>5004487 (OP)
about half a bale a day in hay, and say a ton of hay is ~$300 delivered but not stacked. 55 lbs a bale, 36 ish bales per ton, meaning 8 and change dollars a day in just hay per fucking horse and just one is going to be an uppity faggot. most boarding places are diy and 300 per month and no feed/care. Add water, grooming, boarding, minerals, fencing, vet, etc. I don't know horse costs, but a nail in the foot of a cow is ~$200 and that shit is per year per small herd, so do the fucking math. The cheapest horse is about 2k, which is pretty much slaughter weight cost, and that's the cheapest part of the whole shebang. All together, basically buying a cheap sports car per year, each year, for every year it is alive. Cheap horses are just pasture pets waiting to die. Good horses are 10k plus. Horses are not cheap, do not like staying alive on their own, and are basically a status symbol nowadays.

>>5004487 (OP)
The real answer is “it depends”. It’s going to vary a lot based on your horse, some are high maintenance, some are low maintenance; there are many things you have to take into account and that isn’t including the space you need. Also if it’s just an individual having a horse on their land, you’ll need a second horse to keep them company.
For reference, here’s what I spend on my horse a year:
402 grain feed
240 rice bean
400 osteomax (arthritis)
250 hay (I split this 50/50 with a friend who keeps her horse with mine, who is much lower maintenance)
60 salt
440 farrier
15 wormer
Not including any potential vet bills, that’s a bit above $1800 a year. His companion horse I mentioned above probably costs half that, and we have some competition horses that cost like $12k in maintenance a year. I don’t have to pay boarding because I work at the barn. I have them on about 4 acres with a walk in shed. If you have to buy land or board somewhere, you’re going to be paying a lot more. Probably $300 a month for a decent place.
t. Stable manager and horse trainer

i have also wondered this, entirely so i can jerk off horse cock on the reg
the answer is almost certainly "stick with animals i can afford and properly take care of and won't get killed by," i don't need to be lectured on that, but i still wonder

>>5004573
You can get horses for free but the rest of what you said is pretty spot on

>>5004830
can you put a price on your dreams?

>>5005309
judging by the rest of the thread, yeah, as well as other non-monetary barriers

It depends on the horse. Some horses are low maintenance. I've got an old station bred horse she never needs any additional feeding. In fact she gets too fat on a couple acres of grass and needs taking off it. If you don't have a few acres of grass, then that is going to cost you. When I got her I got a farrier to look at her feet which looked fine. I said how long do you reckon since they were trimmed? He thought 6 months? It was at least 4 years i think and probably longer. I don't think she has ever worn shoes. Picrel is the horse at 20 years old ish (I don't know exactly how old)

Some other horses will cost you a fortune if they have health problems or if you need to feed them up and they still stay skinny. Genetics plays a part. I'm pretty sure shes some kind of appaloosa arab cross from what I was told or looks like some quarter horse in there? Related to some really good endurance racers, in fact a half brother traveled to dubai and won a 160km race there but I think shes always been used as a stock horse and for hunting so in steady work but not crazy.

>>5008460
Forgot pic

Yeah hasn't cost me a cent apart from one foot trim. I've worked on big farms so been able to just keep her in a couple acres of house paddocks

>>5004487 (OP)
tl;dr: if you have to ask, you can't afford it/don't have the land

if you have something else do it
>several hundred dollars/month for boarding
>will probably incur more if you want to ride it at said place

if you do it yourself
>need stall for horse
>need space for storing hay bales
>need to pay someone to deliver said bales periodically
>need area to dump sawdust used for bedding in horse stall
>need someone to deliver said sawdust periodically
>need to feed them daily (2x slice of hay, several scoops of horse grain that comes in 50 lb bags, several gallons of water)
>need to shovel their shit daily minimum, ideally twice daily
>need land to dump said shit (have fun in the summer when your whole property reeks of horse shit)
>need to have enclosed pasture space (~.5 acres minimum, ideally more) where they can roam a couple times/week and eat grass
>need blacksmith/ferrier to put horseshoes on them regularly
>need a good vet
>need a big pocketbook for said vet when problems arise
>need to spend money on all the tack (saddle, reins, etc) for riding
>need industrial fans for them in the summer
>need blankets for them in the winter

>>5008580
My Dad bought my sister and I a horse and he was a single father working as a cabinet-maker. He leased our neighbour's field (1 acre), no stall/stable but there was natural shelter provided by trees. We'd muck out the field once a week and sell the manure for gold coins, rode her at the pony club and never shoed her.

>>5004487 (OP)
Not much if you simply want the horse to survive and work. Literal peasants had horses for centuries. Their horses would live 10 long years and then get shot and boiled at the first sign of trouble. No one really gave a shit because they have the facial structure of a fish and a behavior that truly gives weight to the word "beast". It's not like a dog or a cat or something. Herbivores are our inferiors.

If you want to pamper the horse as if they are a person, it costs tens of thousands. And now you know why /horse/ is full of batshit insane zoophiles, because thats what it takes for someone to pamper an animal that has been selected specifically for being pitiable, disgusting, and disposable for its entire history. No one would purposefully ride their dog into a wall of spikes just so they could leap off its back and get behind enemy lines, that's for sure.

>>5009125
>And now you know why /horse/ is full of batshit insane zoophiles
/horse/ feels like it's the same 4 zoophiles (that have never interacted with horses IRL btw) posting the same horse pics over and over. occasionally someone who actually owns horses will post there but then never come back