Your Input Needed on Unwanted Horses

I wonder when my obsesson will will end? It started for me at around age 5 and at age 43 here now, I'm still not over it. LOL
You mean legally? I'm sure there are some that still do, if they have the equipment to do it and the privacy to get away with it.

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It wouldn't let me bypass the question about the best choice for dealing with unwanted horses so I quit the survey as they didn't offer a logical choice ie, SLAUGHTER.

I quit for the same reason

We're seeing a lot of underfed and starving horses (and llama's, etc.). I know the numbers are only going to keep going up due to prices of hay going up, and unemployment, economy, etc.
I see a big problem also in the killing with kindness area. I did mention this in the survey. I deal a lot with people who can't (literally) see that they are completely unable to care for their animals, and they just wont listen that 12 or 20 horses is really, really way too many, and that it's not okay for them to LiVE in a 6X6 stall, or stay tied all the time, or have no shelter, no food, very little water, etc. I've seen places where there were carcasses of dead horses lying in the same barn or paddock as the pregnant mare that the owner is sure is just a wonderful blessing and just cant wait to see that foal.

The closing of the slaughterhouses was exactly what we knew it would be, a disaster for horses. It has taken away one of the few options for getting these animals off of these properties. btw, it is still legal to bury horses here, as long as you bury them deep enough. Composting also works, but you need a very big pile, and a big loader to turn it regularly.

Why not just eat them, they are large grazer's
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This is a bit of a different angle on the subject, but I have wondered about an ad that runs continually in a local ag type publication. They want to buy horses and any horse type animal of any type or grade. It has been running for months, of not years so whatever they are doing with them is an on going business, I assume.

There are a lot of people around here from Mexico and I have heard that they buy up all kinds of items from yard sales, etc to send to Mexico. Are the horses one of those items?

I would imagine somebody is simply an order buyer and is shipping to Mexico for slaughter. I believe there is some regulation about shipping to Canada & Mexico for slaughter but I'd need more coffee before I comment on that. I do have a problem with the horses going to Mexico for slaughter because they aren't regulated for humane treatment. We are in Canada but aren't taking too many US horses - or at least not in the west.

mexicans eat and use horse for draft and transportation yet, also earn income from "burritos" sold to tourist that just have to sample that tasty mexican food.. they laugh and tell jokes to each other about some of the things they feed to tourist....

Could that also apply to what they put in food they sell at fiestas or fund raisers in the US?

PERFECTLY SAID. those bunny-huggers need to have a load of these poor creatures delivered to their finely manicured lawns, THEN tell us what should be done with them!

i love horses, all animals really, but they are livestock--some are dangerous even. why not use them for meat? i dont' get it. and less ppl breeding backyard pets would be helpful. i agree with another poster about horses being bred b/c it has 'a name' on its papers, but yet that particular animal isn't so hot. maybe if the price is now down to nothing those types will quit breeding. might be the only good thing to come of this mess.

If you have the land try this:

http://www.ansci.umn.edu/dairy/dinews/composting.htm

It should work for horses too.

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