At what price do you sell?!?!

A few days ago I received an email from a very nice lady inquiring about Stone, my '09 black and white paint stud colt...She had found my website through a Google search for "2009 paint foals in KS" (my stats give me this info) so anyhoo she stated basically that she thought he was beautiful and wondered if he was for sale...Well I am in the horse business to raise them, train them, and sell a few of them. But this one is different, this is a colt that I have waited years for. Meaning before breeding my mares to just any stud they first have to have a pedigree to back them and then of course I always judge temperament and also with my paints, color and patterns...My mare Rita which you can read about here is a black overo paint and I wanted a true black and white wild overo paint baby. So the stud that we found which we talked about here was exactly what I wanted!! So that's what we did, we bred them and got this amazing, gorgeous, fantastic colt!!! OK so let me get my mind back here...So I emailed her back and told her that no he wasn't for sale...I actually felt bad saying no...I'm not sure why, I just did. Now I might have considered it if we had bred her back to Doc this year but we didn't..Due to some things out of my control...Another one of Hubby's late plans, and you can't have late plans in breeding!! So I shared with her some info about the sire and grandsire because they are just so awesome!! And I also asked her what exactly she was looking for. You know, particular pattern, color, bloodline?!?! I was thinking of anyone I might know that could sell her what she was looking for. Basically her response was she was looking for a paint like I have. So I replied to her that if anything changes I will send her a message and let her know. Just because you can never be sure what is going to happen tomorrow, right?!?!

So upon telling Hubby this news that I thought was awesome simply because someone else liked my horse so much!! The kind lady told me repeatedly how beautiful he was and how lucky I was to have him...*Blush*...She really did make my day!! Well when I told Hubby that I told her no, he got a little irritated with me. To him everything is for sale except your kids LOL!! So his response is for the right price I'd be stupid not to sell him!! WHAT?!?! I couldn't believe he would say this!! I mean it is no surprise that everything on our ranch has a price tag, I was just surprised that Stone has one...

So what would you guys do, I mean if this was you?!? I told him I'm not selling him, and he obviously won't make me but he'll be irritated about it...

My beauty shortly after he was born...

Such awesome markings!!

Finally shedding out to his black coat...And getting SO big!!!


He he!! This was too funny, he just walked right up to see what was in my hand LOL!!