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Re: [RC] ok, TAX bad word - Chris PausWe already pay fees up the wazoo to AHA if we register our babies. If we don't have a stallion, there's stud fee. Vet fees for the mare, vet fees for the baby when it's born. Registration fees. If everything goes well, it costs me about $1,500 to get a baby to age 2. I've reduced that a little having my own stallion, if I dont' count all the feed and care he gets! Yes indeed, to whom should we pay these fees? To the USDA? To the county government? State ag departments? Who will be in charge of saying who is allowed to breed horses and who is not? What a huge can of worms that would be to open. yes, there are irresponsible breeders out there who breed dozens of babies each year, hoping for that one champion... and they dump the rest. There are irresponsible back yard folks who have no idea what they are doing a breed a mare just because she's a mare. But there's a lot more
people who are thoughtful about what they are doing and why. I'm tired of the "breeders" getting the rap for everything that goes wrong in the horse world. We put enough pressure on ourselves to try to do it right and do right by the horses without people thoughtlessly stacking the deck against us more. I guess we could all quit breeding Arabians for a few years and then what would you do when Spike or Stormey is aging and you need a replacement. People complain all the time there's too few good hroses to pick from, and then complain that we're breeding too many. Good gravy! chris SandyDSA@xxxxxxx wrote:
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