Hi guys,

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So since I have a job and many animals, I rely almost solely on my art and my BM to manage the money in my account, and some months it's tough getting everything I need for RO. I tend not to have too much time to use even the "easy" enter page unless I have the BM enter the horses the first day. I've been looking for other ways to sort of get some income going, and came across selling geldings.

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I know some people toss like, a reject EEE/WEE boy into a pasture with a bunch of mares, rate all the foals, and then sell the colts as geldings. How does this go for the people that do? Is it worthwhile?

Short answer is no, not much. If you manage to sell lvl2 gelding for 2k, it might be, but they're going for 1,5k at the market and raising foal to lvl2 with rating costs around 850. It's more profitable to FR the foals at 2 without rating, 100k pure profit per full barn every month after the initial one, not counting feed which isn't much.

I don't breed geldings to sell, but I do breed to replenish my own gelding pastures. I keep a 100 pasture full of unrated mares and breed them to PPP+ stallions. From the foals, I hold back ~20 colts to replace any geldings who are retiring or to fill up a new showing pasture, & then hold back fillies to replace any retiring mares. The rest get put up for cheap or FRed. It's a nice little system that ensures I never have to stress about purchasing new geldings.