While I love the look of the bigger horses, we will stay breeding 30 to 32" horses here. We may go even a bit smaller, but I agree the ability to keep the refined quality is harder to achieve. We bred in 2010 to 26.75" stallion and 28" stallion and had nice refined foals from larger mares, which we decided to keep for ourselves. We chose not to breed at all for 2012 foals. The most recent stallion I purchased is 29" and nothing here is over 31" stallion-wise. I prefer to breed to 32 to 34" mares, just my personal preference. We have not had any problem selling the A sized horses here over the years. However, all of our foals are AMHA/AMHR registered, so that gives some versatility to the buyer.
We are going to expand our advertising this year, I think that is a key point in development of any program, showing or breeding. It is an expensive one no doubt, but you have to be out there to be able to get interest in your horses.
The most important thing to being able to sell in any market is to strive to produce the very best you can for sale, and constantly do research and your own critiques to improve. Quality over quantity is the course we have chosen to take in this very iffy economy.
We are going to expand our advertising this year, I think that is a key point in development of any program, showing or breeding. It is an expensive one no doubt, but you have to be out there to be able to get interest in your horses.
The most important thing to being able to sell in any market is to strive to produce the very best you can for sale, and constantly do research and your own critiques to improve. Quality over quantity is the course we have chosen to take in this very iffy economy.