11-30-2011, 11:52 AM
It's about time, no I don't eat horse, I ride horse!
But since the united states shut down the slaughter houses for horse it has been all moved to Canada. So what you say?
As a rancher, the horse market, what's left of it has gone down the tubes, essentially what has happened is the market is flooded, you can go to auction pick up a brood mare with a colt on her side and bred back , that's 3 horses for as low as 500 dollars. It has left alot of ranchers in the cold with no alternative but to either give them away or shoot them.
Let me explain why
The price of hay has more than tripled in the last five years because of the cost of fuel and that lovely bailing twine around the bails that used to be wire is now a oil n gas product .
So a rancher foals out his broodmares early spring if their not sold by fall, every mouthful of hay that foal eats in the fall and winter is money that the rancher will never see. Period, at least in the way the market is today.
So sad but true the rancher is better off shooting them. If they give them away then the bloodlines that they have been breeding gets scattered and the value of the bloodlines drop.
It might sound crule n gross to think about the slaughter houses but they serve their purpose, they put meat on your table in shiny white packages.
And for you vegetarians out their an Indian friend once said, vegetarian means poor hunter
Oh and you P.E.T.A lovers PETA also stands for people eating tasty animals
Aloha have a great day
setting my soul free....
But since the united states shut down the slaughter houses for horse it has been all moved to Canada. So what you say?
As a rancher, the horse market, what's left of it has gone down the tubes, essentially what has happened is the market is flooded, you can go to auction pick up a brood mare with a colt on her side and bred back , that's 3 horses for as low as 500 dollars. It has left alot of ranchers in the cold with no alternative but to either give them away or shoot them.
Let me explain why
The price of hay has more than tripled in the last five years because of the cost of fuel and that lovely bailing twine around the bails that used to be wire is now a oil n gas product .
So a rancher foals out his broodmares early spring if their not sold by fall, every mouthful of hay that foal eats in the fall and winter is money that the rancher will never see. Period, at least in the way the market is today.
So sad but true the rancher is better off shooting them. If they give them away then the bloodlines that they have been breeding gets scattered and the value of the bloodlines drop.
It might sound crule n gross to think about the slaughter houses but they serve their purpose, they put meat on your table in shiny white packages.
And for you vegetarians out their an Indian friend once said, vegetarian means poor hunter
Oh and you P.E.T.A lovers PETA also stands for people eating tasty animals
Aloha have a great day
setting my soul free....
setting my soul free....