2007-02-10 07:22:41 · 4 answers · asked by i know i'm a spas but... 1 in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
No. With any horse that you are responsible for there will be board, vet, blacksmith, equipment, and training costs.
A free lease means that you will not be paying monthly for the privilege of riding the horse.
2007-02-10 07:29:56 · answer #1 · answered by Sharingan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have free leased several horses in the past. it's not really free because you are tasked with buying the feed, cleaning the stall, buying the bedding and doing all the work. It's free because you don't actually pay anything for the use of the horse - but you can't take it off the premises and keep it somewhere else.
I have leased mares to people who only wanted to have a warmblood that they raised from a foal. They would then "free lease" my mare, have her artificially inseminated by a veterinarian on my farm, then cared for the mare during her pregnancy including the farrier, extra vaccinations needed for a pregnant mare, bought all the feed and hay and was there when the foal was born and imprinted it. When the foal was 5 months old, she cancelled the lease and took the foal she had paid all expenses for to her own farm and commenced to raise her own horse. My mare was a thoroughbred and the woman bought the product for A.I. from a belgian stallion.
Although there are costs involved, it certainly didn't cost her anywhere what it would have cost her to buy a weanling warmblood with the bloodlines she ended up with.
2007-02-10 15:32:06 · answer #2 · answered by amishpantry 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, I free lease one right now. I don't have to pay anything to literally lease the horse but every month I had to pay the board fee every month. You have to pay for arena time and everything else.
2007-02-11 16:41:29 · answer #3 · answered by razzy_horse 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No you have to pay for everything to take care of it shoes, board, feed, tack, everything...you just don't have to pay money every month to ride the horse but you pretty much are already paying that much to care for it...also you can take them off-farm some free leases are on farm and some you can take them to your own farm
2007-02-10 19:49:40 · answer #4 · answered by yo_dede_13 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋