difficulty selling horses?

has anyone else noticed a struggling market when it comes to selling horses?
I've had to steeply discount good-quality horses for the past year or so to get them to sell, but in the past few months it's been even worse.

Is it just me that's having trouble?
If so, how are you all pricing/advertising your horses to get them to sell?

Depends on the breed for me. Popular breeds I tend to sell pretty quickly, particularly with higher statted foals. I notice second generations tend to take a little longer for me. For more uncommon breeds it's pretty much give away or take weeks. I had a miniature foundation for sale since it was six years old, sold it at 17 years old a couple weeks ago. I've been struggling to sell a batch of personal line Clydes recently with completely new/unique pedigrees. I imagine uncommon disciplines will also be harder particularly if pedigree follows that discipline. I love to buy horses but a lot of the ones I'm interested in simply don't fit my programs because they're bred in a different discipline or their pedigrees contain like a billion foals for each pairing.

Then again, I don't have a "range" of buyers because I know there's a select few people that will buy my stock or who readily jump on the second generation horses. The rest are either bidding, where I'm super picky about where my horses go- I don't like my efforts to be wasted otherwise I would just breed once instead- and a lot of players just don't match my criteria. So yeah, it is hard to shift horses because there's a very specific demand for popular breeds in a popular discipline with super high stats or super rare (flaxen/pangare) colours or super high *but not overbred* conformation.

I have endurance Clydesdales and driving Dutchies; and so far they just don't sell. Which is of course just part of the uncommon discipline problem. Honestly I have added some breeds recently and all of them are set to the most common discipline for their breed because I don't want to end up in the same place with my new breeds.

Now my Quarter Horses sell. I have good clean lines with great colors (flaxen, cream, champagne, silver) and they are all western trained. Normally they sell within 2-4 weeks on bid only. I do have certain requirements that I like the prospective buyers to meet and still am able to sell them. I restarted my lines with Quarter Horses for personal reasons (namely my lines were chaotic), meaning I haven't had my new lines on the market, but my old lines still sell and I get offers on my locked horses from the old lines.

I think that like maple said popular breeds sell much quicker than unpopular breeds. Arabians fall in towards the middle for number of horses so they won't move as fast as Quarter Horses the most popular breed on the game.

The market also seems to go in waves, where there will be a handful of members simultaneously looking for a particular mid-to-low popular breed and/or discipline (TWH, Shetland, etc), then crickets. This is only from an observer's standpoint, since I haven't gotten to the point where I have foals to sell.

It seems to fluctuate wildly. One time I'd barely gotten a batch of minis for sale, and within ten or fifteen minutes half of them were purchased, prior to my even making a forum post. (And I'd priced them just barely below what I thought they were worth, because I anticipated having a hard time selling them.) Just before that, I'd had a pretty good mini for sale at more drastically below value that took more than a month to sell.

I tend to find that truly exceptional horses (ones that have outrageously high stats, extremely desirable genes, etc) sell very quickly, while unexceptional but good horses can be hard to move. And sometimes it seems to come down to sheer luck of whether you're selling at the same time someone is looking to buy.

I do definitely find that unpopular disciplines is a killer. (Which is a shame - I wish the game were robust enough to support every discipline for every breed.) If a horse has something I really want (usually color) but isn't in the discipline I do, I might decide to work with it, to try and get those stats into the right spots over a generation or two. But more frequently I'll just pass on it, because that takes such a long time.

I think that making a forum post advertising sales *does* help. I know I personally check there more often than I just search for sale horses. And a few times I've had horses up for sale for quite some time, and then when I finally make a post, they sell quickly.
I also tend to make very detailed sales posts; whether that helps or not, I don't know. But I list the horse's stats, conformation, genotype, etc in the post, and link directly to their page. (I miss being able to post their images, but I'm too lazy to go the screenshot/upload/link route.)
I personally dislike sales posts that are just "hey, I have horses for sale go to my account to see them". If you have a bunch for sale, it may be too time consuming to go into a lot of detail, but at the very least post what breeds they are, what discipline/s they are, and if they have desirable colors or conformation (as this could help them sell). And link to the division they're in, if not their individual page. That makes it way easier for a buyer to find them, without wading through your whole account searching for them.