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And who said this would never happen? :roll:



http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/kentucky-swamped-with-unwanted-horses/20070314173109990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
 
It is going to get worse before it gets better.. What is going to happen when these horses getting turned out in nation forests/ strip mine areas start reproducing.. We are going to be forced to round them up and than what? It is going to be like the Mustang roundups out west, and off some of the eastern Islands, but everywhere...

It might sort itself out eventually with less horses being produced but it won't do anything for the lame horses that people will still dump off, or the nasty ones. Ideally the folks would put them down themselves but they aren't doing it now so what makes people think they will in the future?
 
Just read that myself...If someone would have only thought with the realities instead of the Heartstrings of the emotional.
Not everyone thinks when they buy their first horse what it entails...and in the reality they should do research, but little Jane wants a pony...daddy goes gets little Jane a pony...then WHAT? they are on limited income and Pony hurts a leg that the owners can not afford to have a vet out on, much less have it put down. Daddy cant bare to shoot pony with little Jane crying ....then what? It starves? they give it away to someone that can not afford a vet either? the list goes on and on..with the defense of the cowboy in that story...who knows what that cowboy did in reality? we only know on the "cinematics" that he would shoot the horse and leave it for the buzzards to eat. I have heard on here where there were families that ate their horses....in depression I have heard my g.father speak of having to eat horse when they had nothing else. They make these laws on non-realistic judgements. Okay enough of my carrying on about this...it will do anything to change what has happened or happening.

And just so everyone knows, my horses are well loved. I have one mare that will die right in her pasture. She is 25 now....not many caught my heartstrings as she did but she is here to live her life out.

Easty
 
I personally don't think that there will be less horses produced.

Most people don't think that breeding "their horses" will contribute to the problem, as they think they'll always have a market for 'their horses' and think its everyone elses horses thats the problem. So now you have 50,000 breeders or more thinking the same thing. "Its not my breeding program contributing to this"
And then there are the ones that think its cute to have a foal or two around every year, spoil it, can't do anything with it, then get rid of it cause they can't control it. It was fun for the moment, but now its not small sweet and cute anymore, but thats ok we'll have a new foal or two again next year. :mad:
Unfortunately people only think in short term and don't think about the impact years down the road much less the horse itself.
 
I know for a fact there will not be less TB produced. (one of the most "dumped" breeds on the market!) There are more incentives at certain tracks so more babies will be bred. I can not speak for other breeds but I know it wont slow down the racing industry at all.
 
Jigger Boss said:
I personally don't think that there will be less horses produced.

Most people don't think that breeding "their horses" will contribute to the problem, as they think they'll always have a market for 'their horses' and think its everyone elses horses thats the problem. So now you have 50,000 breeders or more thinking the same thing. "Its not my breeding program contributing to this"
And then there are the ones that think its cute to have a foal or two around every year, spoil it, can't do anything with it, then get rid of it cause they can't control it. It was fun for the moment, but now its not small sweet and cute anymore, but thats ok we'll have a new foal or two again next year. :mad:
Unfortunately people only think in short term and don't think about the impact years down the road much less the horse itself.
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seems the horse market is similar to the way the dog market used to be.

people are still raising dogs and selling them for a good price. people are still finding ways to dispose of unwanted dogs or dogs they can no longer take care of.

i think that eventually there will be a way of disposing of unwanted horses.

it will be a lot more expensive than disposing of dogs, but there will eventually be a way.

ironically, they will still need to be killed. however, they won't be piled in a dumpster behind the shelter like many unwanted dogs are.

jmo greenbroke
 
I agree on the breeding situation as well. I hope that some of you are right and some way we find a balance. We have taken the natures balance away from all other species guess we will do the same with the horses.

Easty :roll:
 
I think some will stop breeding if all they are gettin is 75 bucks for a colt... I am not talking back yard breeders here because they don't think of the expenses really until reality comes along but more to do with moderate horse breeding farms.. These places will cease to exist basically.. Now, maybe they get broken down into 4 or 5 more places and they are raise colts, I don't know but we have heard rumblings around here of horse "farms" closing or trying something different instead of breeding.

I know our local auction, that was once a month or every two weeks is now closed because the prices the horses brought were so deflated over the past two years that it wasn't worth the comission anymore to sell them, and Illinois still has a kill market (For now, it isn't going to last if Chicago has its way).. I would never have bought from there but there are other reasons for that..
 

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