03/20/2022
We tried to ride out the storm, but the day has unfortunately or inevitably come.
During the past two years, due to supply shortages, delays, the cost of ingredients, healthy wage for fair work, and the constantly rising living cost of the Bozeman area, all gone up 10%-30%. Horse & Herd has basically been acting as a “non-profit charitable organization”. Of course, wouldn’t it be nice if that was sufficient.
Our products are unmatched on the equine enrichment market when it comes to quality and longevity, all due to the handmade labor and quality ingredients which in the beginning left us with margins not adequate for much more than that. Let alone prepared us for what has surpassed the majority of us all in recent years.
We see H&H’s mission as a way for you, to bring to your horse, a ”welfare, wood/automatic waterer saver, and let me just love on you product”. Therefore, keeping the price as low as possible has and always will be imperative to us. We do not want the
products to become something that the “hobbyists” (but horses are the loves of my life) equestrians like me, hesitate to give them a try just because of their price.
As of today all products in the online store will cost $1 more. We shall then reassess along with the ever evolving production process in order to keep prices as low as possible.
One more month of doing what we have been doing is not worthy of comparison to the tragic war ongoing in Ukraine. Despite that fact, for the next 30 days $1 per product purchased through the website will be donated in-full directly to the kind souls doing everything they can for the horses stuck in war-torn Ukraine, where the lack of food, shelter, bedding, and medicine is a hardship they have no control over. https://helpukrainehorses.eu/en/285-2/?amp=1
Thank you all for your support during these past years and I hope you understand.
-All my love, Kajsa Wallin H&H founder.